December 18, 1998

College Degrees Bear Bitter Fruit in Sri Lanka

By ASOKA BANDARAGE

Nadika Shirani is a tea picker, W. Iranganie a mask maker, and Sudeepa Rathnakumara a stone cutter, all struggling to survive in a remote district in Sri Lanka. However, they are no ordinary village youths: All three are humanities graduates of Sri Lankan universities. Products of the country's free educational system, they are among the 35,000 or so unemployed university graduates throughout the island.

Such

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