By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo
22 August 2012
Sri Lanka’s government has closed down almost all universities for an indefinite period amid a row about the future of education in the island.
Academics have been on strike for nearly two months, accusing the government of interference and demanding more be spent on the sector.
The authorities say teachers are putting students in a position of “darkness, without any hope”.
For decades, university campuses have been a source of turmoil in Sri Lanka.
Students’ problems helped trigger the Tamil insurgency as well as equally bloody Sinhalese insurrections in the 1970s and 80s. Continue reading “Sri Lanka government shuts down universities”