Sri Lanka, July 7 -- Many Sri Lankan graduates exit universities with acceptable English grades yet remain entirely unequipped to navigate real-world professional communication. Studying in an English-medium environment does not automatically produce effective workplace communicators. To bridge this critical employability gap, higher education must move away from fragmented, remedial language courses. Instead, professional communication must be established as a non-negotiable national graduate attribute, structurally woven into the assessments, rubrics, and distinct disciplinary practices of every degree.

"The problem is apparently not linguistics alone but rhetorical, disciplinary, cognitive, and institutional-more English instruction...