University crisis gets worse, shortage of lecturers - Ruwan

May 10, 2013, 10:15 pm


By Zacki Jabbar, The Island

The UNP said yesterday that the youth had been given a raw deal with the university crisis getting worse due to a shortage of lecturers and lack of hostel facilities.

Gampaha District UNP MP Ruwan Wijewardene said that the Uva Wellassa University did not have sufficient lecturers and around 500 students at the Colombo Campus had been deprived of hostel facilities.

The Sri Jayewardenepura University was faced with a different crisis with the Vice Chancellor suspending some students on false allegations, he noted.

The MP said that the ‘Mahinda Chintana’ had pledged a better future for the youth, but a large number of them had already left the country due to an acute unemployment problem, which was getting worse by the day.

Young men and women, Wijewardena observed had migrated to countries such as Australia and Italy, since they were unable to exist on meagre salaries that they drew here.

The UNP Youth Front had attracted many new members and the recent Youth May Day rally in Badulla was a testimony to their enthusiasm to join the UNP, Wijewardene said.