Mass Media technologies are developing rapidly and media has become an integral part of our day to day life. In this context, the development of media and journalism education in schools, universities and other institutions has been confronted with many challenges. Although there are training courses and educators covering a range of skills for print journalism, broadcast, telecast and online media, there are still many issues pertaining to the quality control, practical relevance and affordability of media and journalism education. Human resource management policies of media companies do not recognize priority on continuation of education of journalists (Gunawardene, 2015). This study focuses on challenges confronted by media education in Sri Lanka. The intensive interviews and focus group discussions have been applied to collect data and information. It has transpired during the research that media and journalism syllabi should be revised with more theoretical, conceptual and practical inputs based on media education and media literacy. It is necessary to make the public in general aware of media texts. The ever fluctuating dynamics of the media industry and media education has detrimentally affected the general perception on media.

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斯里兰卡新闻教育面临的挑战

大众媒体技术发展迅速，媒体已成为我们日常生活不可或缺的一部分。在这种情况下，学校，大学和其他机构中媒体和新闻学教育的发展面临许多挑战。尽管有培训课程和教育者涵盖了印刷新闻，广播，电视转播和在线媒体的各种技能，但是仍然存在许多与媒体和新闻学教育的质量控制，实用性和可承受性有关的问题。媒体公司的人力资源管理政策没有认识到继续接受记者教育的优先权（Gunawardene，2015年）。这项研究的重点是斯里兰卡媒体教育面临的挑战。密集的访谈和焦点小组讨论已应用于收集数据和信息。在研究过程中发现，应根据媒体教育和媒体素养，以更多的理论，概念和实践投入来修订媒体和新闻学大纲。有必要使公众普遍了解媒体文本。媒体行业和媒体教育的不断变化的动态已经不利地影响了人们对媒体的普遍认知。