{"id":79032,"date":"2013-03-26T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=79032"},"modified":"2013-03-30T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:21:18","slug":"a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/","title":{"rendered":"A Response To Professor Savitri Goonesekere\u2019s Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=S.+Ratnajeevan+H.+Hoole&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62714\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maaveerar-deeper-similarities-between-ltte-control-and-upfa-control\/hoole-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62714\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-62714\" title=\"hoole-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Careless, Ungrammatical, Untruthful Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not worth arguing with Professor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Savitri+Goonesekere&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Savitri Goonesekere<\/a><\/span><strong>\u00a0 who is rather careless in her writing, starting with my name, which is not R.S. Hoole. Perhaps she is mixing me up with my great-grand father Modliar R.A. Hoole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She responds \u201c<\/strong>I have checked my facts.\u201d I say check again. She writes, \u201cDr. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Hirimburegama&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\">Hirimburegama<\/a><\/span> who has applied for the Vice Chancellor\u2019s post in the University of Colombo is a Lecturer Grade II of this university. I did not make the derogatory remarks that Prof. Hoole suggests I made in reference to Dr. Hirimburegama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Untrue! Her exact words in her first article are \u201cIt is alleged that both do not possess the academic qualifications required for promotion to the immediately higher grade of Senior Lecturer Grade I in the state university system.\u201d My point is that if he was Senior Lecturer Gr. II in 2005, he had the required years of service for promotion to Senior Lecturer I. It is not possible therefore that he did not possess the academic qualifications for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Being a lawyer Prof. Goonesekere may argue turning her horrible grammar to her advantage. In saying \u201cboth do not possess\u201d I think she really meant \u201cneither possesses.\u201d But now she can say \u201cYes, Hirimburegama possesses the qualifications but I only said that both do not possess!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Tenured and Confirmed Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Goonesekere further wrote in a another derogatory remark about Dr. Hirimburegama and the other candidate, \u201cThe other two applicants are reported to be Senior Lecturers Grade II, the lowest post in the state university system regulated by the Universities Act 1978.\u201d Lecturer Grade II is not the lowest regulated grade. The Universities Act, if Prof. Goonesekere ever read it while administering University of Colombo as VC, has a lot to say about Assistant Lecturers \u2013 now renamed Lecturers (Probationary). To overcome this faux pas, she now claims, \u201cThe university system may recognise a lower grade than Senior Lecturer Grade II. However, we are all aware that the lowest tenure track post in the system is Senior Lecturer Grade II. Why or how Dr. Hirimburegama continues in this post I do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka does not have the American tenure-track and tenure system she writes about, but a similar system with probationary and confirmed posts. In another difference, the Universities Act speaks of Assistant Lecturers eligible for confirmation as Permanent Assistant Lecturers. Tenure-track academics in America are those eligible for tenure and tenured persons are those who have been given tenure. If she meant to use American terms as a matter of style, then she should know that most Senior Lecturers would be seen as tenured and not tenure-track as she calls them; the tenure track Senior Lecturers then would be those who joined newly and have not served three years to be confirmed. While studying in America I do not know if she was aware of things around her. As a former VC if she knows her stuff, she should also know that Lecturer Grade B-04a is a confirmed post. She can call them tenured if she wants to; but not tenure track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Doctorates and Advertisements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Goonesekere also dismisses the importance of the doctoral degree which is widely recognized as the best training for research. We may expect that from someone who does not have a doctorate and it is not worth rubbing it in. She also makes much of the advertisement which really is an instrument for judging applicants. But the reality is that we appoint the best of the applicants. If we treated the advertisement as an absolute standard many of our VCs, past and present, could not have been appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Response To Professor Savitri Goonesekere\u2019s Response - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Response To Professor Savitri Goonesekere\u2019s Response - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-26T07:52:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-30T10:21:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"169\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/\",\"name\":\"A Response To Professor Savitri Goonesekere\u2019s Response - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-26T07:52:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-30T10:21:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-response-to-professor-savitri-goonesekeres-response\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"width\":\"169\",\"height\":\"200\",\"caption\":\"Prof S. 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