Science Education in Ceylon and its downfall

I can write a book on this topic.

What went wrong?

1. Rapidity of change.

2. Change in medium of instruction.

3. Lack of textbooks.

4. Lack of training of teachers.

5. Lack of laboratory facilities.

6. Cancelling of University Entrance Examination conducted by the university.

7. Cancelling of practical examination.

8. Dropping to three subjects from original 4 subjects.

9. Lack of certification of schools on the basis of Science Education.

10. Irregular standardization methodology.

11. Increase of intake to the universities while the standard kept falling.

12. Fall in standard of academic English.
The word academic is my creation.

13. Poor salary scale for teachers and most of them leaving for assignments abroad.

14. Poor pension scheme for teachers.

15. Proliferation of private tution classes.

16. Training undergraduate as an export commodity.

17. Government Free book program.

18. Lack of library facilities.

19. Lack of extracurricular activities.

20. Lack of reference material on science journals and additional books.

21. Lack of review of Science education.

22. Lack of relevance of computer science.

23. Lack of tools like tablets and wifi education (this is done excellently in Singapore).

24. Lack of exchange programs.

25. Lack of multilingual capability for example German, French, Japanese and Korean.

26. Lack of programs for children waiting for examination results.

27. We had hopeless education ministers and some were young Teacher Rapists.

28. Lack of Training of school laboratory staff.

If only five of these points can be improved I think that it will improve the education system exponentially.

Teacher training comes first for me. I did not have good set teachers but I was a different kettle of fish.

I saw a comment of educational reforms on YouTube  and thought of penning this down, as I am stopping further blog pieces here.

Skills
Skills are necessary for conducting practicals.

I had a box of weight and a dissecting set.
My brother left all his ORIGINAL textbooks.
Only book missing was Physical Chemistry by Angus. I found a second hand copy.

My elder brother failed his advanced level and I was much junior to him and I did not hurry my steps.

With a Seven O' Clock blade I could cut a very thin slice of a meristem.
Later I graduated to a Wilkinson blade smuggled from UK for Rs.3.50.
Rs.3.50 was a big some and Marks and Spencer shirt on open market was Rs.5.00.

Currently I have a digital microscope which I had to by from my own pocket, I used it for my own research.

The university did not have a digital microscope.

I am surprised I did not become a surgeon (I was good with surgical skills).

By they way dissecting postmortem (no bleeding )and looking for antemortem thrombosis is difficult macroscopically.

Microscopic examinations is mandatory with lot of postmortem changes to deal with.