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Our voices in the newspapers
Our lecturers write for national newspapers about English, communication and university learning. Read their 7 feature articles below.
Daily Mirror✦Daily News
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Prasanna RathnayakeHead of the Department of Languages
5 articlesDaily MirrorFeatures7 July 2026
The bilingual bluff
Why short workshops are not enough, and why professional communication should be a core skill in every degree.
Read the articleDaily MirrorOpinion4 June 2026That English Gag
The gap between university policy and classroom practice, and how tasks, feedback and rubrics can build communication skills.
Read the articleDaily MirrorFeatures13 May 2026From Language to Communication: Rethinking University Learning
Moving communication to the centre of the curriculum by building it into subjects such as engineering and IT.
Read the articleDaily MirrorFeatures26 March 2026The Catch-22 of English in Sri Lanka’s Universities
How the systems that test and certify English may not build the professional communication graduates need.
Read the articleDaily MirrorFeatures9 March 2026The Graduate Gap: Why B-grades in English are failing Sri Lanka’s STEM elite
Why good English grades do not always mean confident communication at work, and why teaching should match how each discipline thinks.
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Ashmini KarunarathneLecturer in English
1 article