{"id":364,"date":"2021-02-09T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.cmb.ac.lk\/icds2021\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2021-06-05T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T12:47:22","slug":"research-culture-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.cmb.ac.lk\/icds2021\/research-culture-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Culture in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Research Culture in Sri Lanka<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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The creation and dissemination of knowledge through research has long been recognized as an essential requirement for a country\u2019s healthy economy and living standard of its nation. A nation\u2019s overall capacity may depend considerably on the outcome of its research. Research helps to bring the material improvements via novel and improved products and services thus identifying and solving practical issues. Further, it provides insights and new ideas that enrich human understanding of various social, economic, and cultural aspects. In general, universities are highly recognized as centers of knowledge, production, and transmission, and play a critical and vital role in knowledge creation, skill development and value creation, which are essential elements in achieving a sustainable future, and one major contribution amongst it all is conducting research as a part of knowledge creation and dissemination.<\/p>\n

A country\u2019s research capacity could be measured on the allocation of funds of gross domestic product spent on research, number of researchers, number of publications in refereed journals and number of patents (The World Bank Group, 2018). It is estimated that Sri Lanka allocated 0.11 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for research in 2013 whereas the world average is 2.23 percent (The World Bank Group, 2018).<\/p>\n

The present Sri Lankan higher education framework is constituted by 16 state universities, 18 postgraduate and independent institutes, and hundreds of recognized higher educational institutes governed by the private sector (UGC, 2017), in addition lot of private institutions are currently operating in providing foreign degree programs. In the higher education system of Sri Lanka, many degree programs have been designed in such a way that undergraduates get the opportunity of exposing themselves to academic research under the full supervision of lecturers. The researching culture that gets started from this stage then gets continued with their next academic qualifications including the postgraduates and, even when they enter the corporate sector. The list of main Sri Lanka universities is given below and are governed by the University Grants Commission. They facilitate higher education in Science, Medicine, Engineering, Information Technology, Agriculture, Social & Humanities science, and other sectors. Each university could be seen stand for its unique degree program.<\/p>\n

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