Progress of data collection 13.05.2010

1. Ethnic cohesion component Progress of data collection13.05.2010

2. Progress First meeting was held on 30.04.2010 regarding data collection with the participation of faculty level members and Prof. Dharamaratne A decision was taken to prepare questionnaires by each faculty committee and submit to the DVC Second meeting was held with faculty sub committee chairpersons on 06.05.2010 to prepare a core questionnaire based on the questionnaires submitted by the faculty committees. Core questionnaire was prepared and sent to the faculty sub committee chairpersons.

3. Agriculture Dear Sir, We discussed and accepted the questionnaire sent by you. It will be administered to 60 students for data collection on Monday afternoon. Thank you! Anton Perera

4. Engineering Dear Sir, These are the progress, 1)    We had a meeting on 11th May and finalized the questionnaire (copy of the final version is attached) which is almost same as the one that you have sent us last Friday. However the order of the questions and some wordings have been revised. Also question 3.1 is included. 2)    We have requested to get printed 250 copies. 3)     This week mid semester examination is going on. The committee has decided not to get the feed back during the examination because student may not spend time during their exam to give their actual feedback. 4)     The date for collecting the feedback is fixed on 19th May (Wednesday). Wednesday afternoons are always reserved for students activities in the timetable. Therefore it is possible to find free time for all the students at the same time. 5)    Our committee has decided to give about 15-20 minutes explanation on the questionnairebefore we ask the students to give their feedback. Regards Pirapaharan

5. FMST Dear Sir, We included few more additions to the questionnaire, and today (13.05.2010) at 11.40 we have planned to complete the data collection from all students at FMST. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, AshokaDeepapananda

6. M&F • The faculty had its third Faculty level Ethnic Cohesion meeting on 11.02.2010. • MrRathnayaka , the Chairperson tabled the finalized questionnaire received from the DVC office and asked whether it was needed to do any modification. Members agreed to accept the questionnaire as it was. It was also emphasized the importance of finishing secondary data collection given to each member. • Then discussions were made about sample selection. Cont..

7. Then following decisions were made • To have at least 10% of the population as the sample and 5% contingency, in case of less response rate. Thus members agreed to collect data from 15% of the population • Sample criteria as follows Cont..

8. Responsibilities were given for members for data collection as follows • 1000 level- Mr. Rathnayaka Mr. H.B.A.S.B. Herath • 2000 level- Miss. L.R. Rupasinghe • 3000 level- Mrs. G.K.H. Ganewaththa • 4000 level • HRM- Mr. P.E.D.D. Silva • Entrepreneurship- Mrs. P.D.S.D. Rodrigo • Accountancy- Ms. T.A.N. R. Jayarathna • Marketing- Miss. M.G.D.S. Samadhi • (Within that sample of each batch, participants should be selected considering following criteria. • representing all different groups Sinhala,Tamil/muslim Christianity etc. • male/female as much as equal representation Cont..

9. Agreed to collect data as soon as questionnaire got printed and to finish by next week ( 22 nd May) • Scheduled the next meeting on 18.02.2010 at 12.00 noon at Mgt 3 • Current progress • Questionnaire has been printed and distributed among members • Data collection has been started from 12.05.2010

10. Medicine Update: The faculty committee  met on 10th of May 2010 to discuss about the mode of data collection and to fine tune the questionnaires. It was decided to collect data from a sample of medical students (about 15 -20 students from each of the 5 batches - from Sinhalese students). Information and ideas from the academic staff members will be collected on issues that already exist in the faculty due to presence of different ethnic groups and on promoting ethnic cohesion at faculty and national level. This will be done using questionnaire which is designed for academic staff members. This data will be collected during the week that begin on 17th of May. Data from 15 Muslim students (out of the total of 25 Muslim students) have already been collected using two focus group discussions. Information from the deputy proctor, Dean, Security inspector, Deputy senior student counselor and the sub-wardens have already been collected by interviewing them. This was to find out whether there is/was any clash between students due to their ethnicity or religion.  Dr. SampathGunawardenaChairperson/Ethnic Cohesion Committee Faculty of Medicine 

11. H&SS Dear Sir, Progress of the sub activity of Ethnic Cohesion in FHSS Our committee meeting for the activity was held on 10th May at Conflict Studies Centre. The works on data collection was divided among members. Questionnaires and formatted tables for data collection have already finalized Data  collection from 200 students, different units and centers, and staff have already been progressed. We have to plan external data collection procedure. We planed to complete data collection works by 18th May 2010. Thank you Yours' Sincerely Chandradasa Tele. o776218596

12. Science Dear sir, We have discussed  about the questionnaire and small changes were made. Today(13.05.10) the final  questionnaire will be handed over to Deans office to get about 600 copies. Monday (17.05.10) collecting of data will be commenced. All four committees  in the faculty of science will collect the data during next two weeks. Thank you very much. Yours faithfully, M.G.V.Wickremasinghe Faculty of Science

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