So we are at war against SAITM university again, the private medical faculty that is the only functioning private medical college in Sri Lanka.
It is not the the first private medical faculty to be opened in the country, the first private medical faculty is the one that I graduated. It was called the ‘North Colombo Medical College’ (NCMC). It was opened in the eighties and after years of fighting and few lives lost it was taken back in to the government in 1991.
Times have changed since then, twenty five years a quarter of a decade later the world is different. Now there are many private universities in the country, at the moment you can get any degree from a private institution in the country except for medicine.
That too is about to change as the first batch of SAITM students graduating around by end of this year. You can take any degree from a private institution in Sri Lanka. That is one reason for the fight against private universities has been on a high in recent few months.
The problem
I represent the unpopular fraction amongst government university students. That I am pro for private universities, and I am pro for having a private medical college in the country but I am not pro SAITM.
Why?
Because there are lot to be fixed at SAITM and getting a medical degree is not as same as getting a degree in another field as we deal with real people life not machines or software.
If the government can fix these issues at SAITM and give them good medical education that we’re getting from our students and public should be ready to accept them in to the medical system.
This is not happening now at the moment, and students who are not up to the standards of becoming doctors are graduating.
You are fighting for the wrong cause
Students are fighting for the wrong cause, we can’t provide free education for everyone till they graduate. No country can do that, not even better countries like USA is doing that, not even communist countries like Russia and China are giving free education for everyone. On the contrary students from Sri Lanka goes to China and Russia to be medical graduates from private universities.
The problem is that students are fighting for the wrong cause, you can’t give free education for everyone. But what you can do is fight to make sure those sub-standard private universities are up to the standards of government universities and that the private university students get the same quality education as government universities.
When it comes to some private universities they give better education that what government university students are getting, and some government degrees are sub-standard as well. That’s why you see people who are graduating from government universities unable to find jobs in private sector and protesting.
Solution
We provide the best medical education that is up to standards of any other universities in the world. So why don’t we provide that good education available by private universities as well, rather than sending these student to foreign countries to countries that don’t even provide medical education up to our standards.
Not only that we will be able to bring foreign students to come and learn in our private medical colleges, like I said out medical education at government universities is one of the best in the world. And rather than us exporting students for foreign medical college we will be importing students from other countries.
Ceylon tea is one the best teas in the world, and sending our student’s to foreign universities and getting them back as doctors is like importing tea to Sri Lanka when we already have Ceylon Tea. — via FB
So next time fight for good standard private education not for the establishment of it. If you don’t do that then you’re fighting for a cause that you can’t win and a cause that will waste your time and effort that can be better off for something else.
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