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University Students To Army Boot Camps. Posted on May 6th, 2011 Sasanka De Silva, Pannipitiya, The government’s decision to send students who are eligible for university admission in 2011 to Army camps to expose them to leadership techniques, English language and IT training is a flawed decision. Thanks to our old fashion paper-marking systems, first students have to wait for months to get the examination results, followed by a couple of more moths for the re-correction process to end and finally the University admissions results. The students lose almost a year due to the process and unfortunately not many of them avail this free time for any useful activity. Therefore, if the government is so keen on turning the trend for good use then, putting children through a well coordinated National Service Duty programmed after their Advanced Level Examination is not a bad idea. National Service Duty does not mean sending children to boot-camps. Instead, they can be trained a...