The Portuguese in Ceylon has been a subject of "so much confusion and misstatement" – Donald Ferguson (1907). The following contrary evidence, among others, on the date of arrival of the Portuguese will be discussed: The ...

The arrival of a Portuguese visitor in the southern coastal town of Galle by accident in 1505 is considered as the beginning of the ‘Western invasion’ in Sri Lanka. The Dutch and the British followed the Portuguese and ...

Such studies as have been done on the interaction between scholar monks of Sri Lanka and western academics in the emerging field of Buddhist Studies in the West in the 19th century have looked at these matters in the ...

The objectives of this paper are to (1) examine the progress made in ensuring women’s access to university education, and specifically, to different disciplines of study (2) analyse macro-level employment statistics as ...

Until recently University education in Sri Lanka continued to be a government monopoly. All Universities in Sri Lanka are government funded and except the Open University of Sri Lanka, depend on government grants for ...

The Iberian adventure has been described as Voyages of Discovery, in that they discovered unknown trails and lands. But many of these trails were known to other cultures, and of course, lands were known to their inhabitants. ...

The Higher educational reformers has been critically discussed the quality and the values of graduates in Sri Lankan universities. The reason for this is many of graduates could not get a job mainly in private sector ...

Gypsies are a small primitive as well as a nomadic tribe who are struggling to face the changing world. They spread over the whole world, especially in Eastern Europe, where they are known as Romanies. In Sri Lanka gypsies ...

Household food security is the ability of the household to secure sufficient food to provide for all the nutrient requirements for all members of the household. Household food security is a critical variable that affects ...

The future of human resource management (HRM) as a discipline and a profession is closely linked to the role played by the HR function in the organisational strategy process. Though the debate on HRM and HR function ...