The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Ravi Karunanayake urged greater emphasis on STEM education, including coding, artificial intelligence, and robotics, to prepare students for future employment. He noted that while about 176,000 students pass the Advanced Level Examination, only around 55,000 enter government universities, and called for private universities to expand higher education opportunities. He also requested the introduction of data protection laws and linked legal reform to the issue of roughly one million pending court cases.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I will certainly heed your request. Just give me a few more seconds.
¶ 02 Then, there is STEM education. With that, we can create our future. In that regard, coding and related subjects, artificial intelligence and robotics must be taught. Today, about 176,000 students succeed at the Advanced Level Examination, out of about 240,000 students. But only 55,000 students get into government universities. So, ensure that we have private universities to take them to a better tomorrow.
¶ 03 Finally, while ensuring these are done, also bring in data protection laws. Hon. Minister, I request you to ensure that data protection laws are brought in and our court system goes into that. I heard you saying that one million cases are pending.
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 March 2025. No. 1743759139093629. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/18974