The Girl Child Day was designated in 2012 to bring attention to disparities in education, nutrition, health and legal rights for young girls. Innovation in Education is the Theme for Girl Child Day for 2013. For most developing countries, including other countries in the Indian sub-continent, innovations in education are needed indeed to get girls into schools and keep them ...
According to the ‘Ada’ newspaper, Mr .Prarthibha Mahanamaheva has called up the Ministry of Education and National Child Protection Agency to discuss the extreme phyiscal and mental stress caused by the Grade V scholarship on young children. Sri lanka is a signatory to the Convention on Rights of the Child . It will be interesting to see which clauses in ...
The latest policy document titled New Education Policies and Proposals is now at www.educationforum.lk/wp-content/uploads/2005/08/NEPP_2013-new-edition.pdf. Sinhala only for now.
A document outlining New Education Policies and Proposals (NEPP) was presented recently to the speaker and the members of the parliament by the Ministry for Education. This document is a result of deliberations on a new education act that began with a public notice published in November 2007 by the Committee to Draft a New education Act seeking input, and ...
The LIRNEasia survey of degree programs offered outside of the public- university system revealed vibrant sector producing 8293 degrees or degree equivalents in 2011/12. The 13 Public universities produced 12,604 graduates in contrast. Of the institutions outside of the public universities, Private universities produced 2,733 graduates. and 10 public institutions outside of the purview of the UGC produced 4,229 graduates. ...
Education reforms are in the air in Sri Lanka. Finally, a proposal to draft a new education act is being considered by a special consultative committee of the parliament. In these deliberations simple truths often get lost in the details. Take the issue of curriculum, for instance. What do our children really need to learn to be well and happy ...
According to a New York Times report the Secretary of Education in USA Arne activating the human rights division in department in an effort to force the fifty to states in the union to enforce federal laws that protect poor, minority and disabled students. That means that states and localities that have historically shortchanged these children — by saddling them, ...
Following is an abstract of the presentation made by Dr. Sujata Gamage to the Council on Higher Education in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 23, 2010. ABSTRACT Universities are increasingly called upon to contribute to the development needs of a country but the nature of the contribution can vary with the mission or the resource base of the institution. University ...
While the debate on banning of mobiles in schools is raging it is refreshing to hear of a school that is using the mobile as a teaching device and teach proper use of the device at the same time. As the mobiles becomes smarter they will become affordable alternatives to computers. (See www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-07-27-cellphoneschool_N.htm?csp=34) While schools have long been wary of ...
Concern on English and IT education from grass root level to policy level is increasing day by day. The author of this article tries to give more alternatives for this issue with a view of global context. The BBC and the use of English I would like to warmly congratulate our President on his recent initiative in promoting English ...
Modern mysteries of education By Dr Harsha Aturupane, Senior Economist, Human Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank www.sundaytimes.lk/090322/FinancialTimes/ft308.html Prof. J.E. Jayasuriya, in whose honour and memory we are meeting today, was a man of outstanding gifts of intellect and character. He laid the foundation of the academic education profession in Sri Lanka. As a university don, he had ...
Eight thousand of the 10,000 principals failed examination God bless the students (Lanka-e-News, June 11, 2009, 7.20 PM; www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=7842) “The entire education of Sri Lanka has been politicized and collapsed. Eighty percent of the education officers are political appointees. Eight thousand of the 10,000 principals are politically chosen persons who have failed the recruitment examination. After 2005, no proper selection ...
Prof. Carlo Fonseka, formerly of the Medical Faculty of Colombo, is an authority on this subject. When asked as to why some people persist in the belief that Medical education should be a State monopoly and PMCs are wrong, he replied; “One reason is that it has always been a State monopoly and we have produced some of the best ...
By Carlo Fonseka The Island – 07th April 2009 www.island.lk/2009/04/07/opinion2.html Recently at very short notice I deputized for the Chairman of the University Grants Commission at the launch of “Adyapanaya 2009″, a Higher Education and Career Exhibition organized by the private sector. Obliged to speak impromptu, I made a few off the cuff remarks. I feel that Zacki Jabbar’s succinct ...