[Extracted from the report “A Strategic Plan for the Department of Examination” Prepared by Committee of Experts for Reforming the Department of Examination appointed by the Minister for Education dated December 2017.] The Department of Examination is perhaps the government department with the most impact on society in Sri Lanka. Families organize their lives around the schedules of the three ...
Download Plan : Sinhala English A Strategic Plan for the Department of Examination for implementation in 2018-2019 was prepared by Committee of Experts to review examinations and evaluation system and roles and functions of the Department of Examinations to make recommendations for improving the quality and standards of testing and evaluation systems in Sri Lanka appointed by the Secretary for ...
May 23, 2023 FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/P9FLkGE9Rgg PANEL: Prof. Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University, Higher education student charges and income contingent loans in Australia Prof. Biswajit Chanda, Member, UGC, Bangladesh, Meeting the social demand for higher education: A Bangladesh perspective Prof. Sampath Amaratunge, Chairman, UGC, Sri Lanka, Current higher education system in Sri ...
Delegating Education Decision Making to Provinces is a Constitutional MandateNot a Discretion for the Ministry of EducationWe are pleased to note that that the Ministry of Education has delegated policymaking during the fuel crisis to provincial authorities with decisions on keeping school opened delegated down to the school level with oversight by zonal authorities.Additionally, ministry has also announced delegating teacher ...
A free webinar “Private Sector Role in Enhancing K-12 Education in Sri Lanka” will be held by Sri Lanka Singapore Business Council (SLSBC) of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce online via zoom from 2:30pm to 3:45pm on Wednesday 23rd March 2022. The panelists will include Dr. Sujata Gamage (Senior Research Fellow of LIRNEasia), Dr. Harsha Alles(Chairman, Gateway Group, and Member, ...
වසංගතයෙන් පසු අධ්යාපනය | பிளேக்கிற்குப் பிறகு கல்வி A policy dialogue on “ Education Post-Pandemic”‘ will be held by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) on 26th March 2022, via Zoom. Date: March 26th, Saturday, 2022 Time: 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm (Colombo) Medium: English| Sinhala| Tamil (with simultaneous interpretation) Zoom link will be sent a day before the event. Register ...
A rift was created when a group of teachers started wearing the abaya to work at Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College (SHLC), a school where all female teachers wore a saree. Sri Lankan Muslim women had a long tradition of wearing a saree, with one end used to cover their head, until some returning home after working in the Middle East ...
Press Release #14: Open letter to Derana TV on the Responsibility of the media for Social Cohesion | සමාජ සංහිදියාව පිළිබඳ මාධ්ය වගකීම මතක් කරමින් අද දෙරණ TV වෙත විවෘත ලිපියක් The government is poised to launch major reforms in education. One of the key objectives is to impart social-emotional learning and cultural skills to our children so that co-existence ...
EFSL Press Release #13: Let’s resolve to keep our children engaged in learning in 2022 | EFSL මාධ්ය ප්රකාශන #13: එළඹුනු 2022 වසරේ අපේ දරුවන් නොනවත්වා අධ්යාපනයේ රඳවා ගැනීමට අධිෂ්ඨානය කර ගනිමු. January 1, 2022 Greetings for 2022 and thank you for staying with us during the last two years when the forum earnestly engaged in its core mission of ...
EFSL PRESS RELEASE #12Access to low-cost testing kits is essential is to keep schools openedNovember 10, 2021Perils of keeping schools closed are now universally acknowledged. In fact, the Worldwide Commission to Educate All Kids (post-pandemic) is calling for an international treaty that would be binding on countries to not close schools except during extreme natural disasters or war. Countries around ...
විභාග: අද හා ඉදිරිය | தேர்வுகள்: இன்று மற்றும் எதிர்காலம் A policy dialogue on “ Examinations: Present and Future”‘ was held by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) on 16th, October 2021, via Zoom. LINKS: PD #19 (In Sinhala) PRESENTATIONS: National Student Assessment Framework – Commissioner-General Examinations, Mr. Sanath Pujitha (15-20 minutes) Assessments & Examinations during the Pandemic· Mr. Harshana Perera, ...
The urgency of getting children back to school at the first opportunity is accepted worldwide, but Covid-19 has also brought three other issues to the fore internationally – (1) Ethics of conducting competitive examinations when significant portions of the students have been left out of education (2) Wisdom of continuing same old education when a full return to normalcy is ...
September 04, 2021 HE the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse Hon Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapakse, MP Hon Minister of Education, Mr. Dinesh Gunewardene, MP Hon Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa, MP The urgent need to prepare for the opening of schools This is in reference to the previous letter we wrote in July 2021 signed by several academics, educationists, and health ...
Pfizer vaccine to schoolchildren after health authority approves Source: Dailynews The Pfizer vaccine will be given to the schoolchildren of the relevant age groups as soon as the medical approval is received, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. He made this observation at the meeting of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Control held through online technology under the chair of President Gotabaya ...
Teacher Crisis Q&A Press Release, August 18, 2021 (a) Is this salary issue truly a ‘crisis’ as portrayed by the teachers? Yes, because for about two decades, on average, all teachers have been paid a basic or starting salary of less than ~ Rs 35,000 per month. This is important because the education sector, on which future generations & socio-economic ...
Principal: Mr W. A. JanakaBelummahara Rahula Vidyalaya is a small school in Gampaha district in Sri Lanka. It has 375 students studying under a small group of academic, management and support staff. Currently classes are held from year 1 to 11 where 36 students are getting ready to face the GCE OL exam this year.We, Education Forum of Sri Lanka ...
