Sri Lanka, April 24 -- Higher Education State Minister Dr. Suren Raghavan says all graduates coming out of the State universities should be engaged in gainful employment. In a recent interview, State Minister Raghavan also said it was time for a complete overhaul of the university curricula, which had been under discussion for a long time without any concrete result.

The State Minister also said certain university lecturers had told him that due to the prevailing economic situation in the country most university students are forced to give up their education midway in order to seek jobs and look after their families.

He is spot-on when he says that university education content should undergo a radical change. It is due to the university...