They’re keeping med schools open, but that’s pretty much it. The entire sector is state-funded (the state wants to open things up to privatization, but the unions say no), so I guess the state can go ahead and kill it. Behind this astonishing event lie months of strikes by professors and students, and behind those strikes of course lie years of complex civil unrest.
Sri Lanka had better be careful. Enough of this and its people will begin to resemble the citizenry of Nevada.