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| Perception of Ragging: The case of Eastern University, Sri Lanka
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M.F.M Marsook, A.L. M Rifky, K.E Karunakaran, M.A.M. Siraju, S.M.B.M Assam
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Abstract:
Ragging is a serious concern when we study about university admissions in Sri Lanka, in fact there are so many studies on factors that contributes ragging. This study was focused on ragging at the hostels of Eastern University, Sri Lanka. Therefore, a pre tested questionnaire was used among 10 % of students population using stratified random sampling method which focused factors such as mode of ragging, inducing factors for involvement in ragging, the factors that refrain from involving in ragging and preference of the seniors involve in ragging when fresher students arrived the next time to university. Data analysis was carried out by using SPSS (2021) software. Analysis showed that there is no significant involvement of ragging by hostel students (p?0.05) in eastern university; it was further revealed that modes of ragging at the hostel revealed that large number of students (69.8%) have done psychological or verbal mode of ragging, and found that around half of the students (53.7%) involved in ragging for the purpose of having leisure. Also, 55.3 % of the students refrained from involving in ragging due to the reason "don't like ragging since it is against humanity" but 35.2% of them informed that they would involve in ragging for newly intake students in future. Studies on ragging at the universities showed that there were some mechanisms recommended to mitigate the ragging not only at the hostels but also at the entire premises of the university. This study also recommend some mechanisms to curb the ragging at the entire premises of the universities such as more senior academics should be appointed as "Academic Sub Warden" for each wing of the hostels and requested them to monitor the misbehavior of the students at the hostels at least during the period of new intake, arranging a small function at the hostels to meet seniors and juniors to introduce each other and to show their talents at the function under the present of the academics, conducting awareness program over punishments to be imposed on the raggers as per the available Act and the by- law of the university and senior academics can convince some direct students to be act as an "anti- raggers" group among the direct senior students not only at the hostel but also at each faculty level
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