Held on October 17, 2020, via Zoom VIDEO Link PRESENTATIONS Assessments in Primary Education with a focus on the Grade five Scholarship Examination in Sri Lanka Ms. Sanuja Goonetilleke and Dr. Sujata Gamage, Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) Review Panel Professor Angela Little, Professor Emerita at UCL Institute of Education, UKDr. Longkai Wu, Research Scientist at the National Institute of ...

In her column why character education is an imperative for Sri Lanka, HGS Premarathna, or Sajitha Preamrathna argues eloquently that good character is more important than ever, and posits, as the title indicates, it should be taught in schools. I have reservations about both arguments. In the first instance, she quotes Andrew Lickona who justifies the need for character education. ...

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 ...

In Sri Lanka, with a population of 22 million, 11,000 schools closed on March 12th affecting 4.5 million students. The situation in Indonesia parallels Sri Lanka though Indonesia’s population at 268 million is ten times that of Sri Lanka. According to a World Bank blog, in Indonesia, over 530,000 schools closed affecting 65 million students. The situation is forcing a ...

May 16, 2020, via zoom. Video of the Dialogue available at – https://lirneasia.net/2020/05/e-learning-opportunities-in-the-asian-global-south-presentation/ INTRODUCTION Since school closure on March 12, education delivery to students has been through a mix of lessons delivered through television (Grades 5, O’level & A’level), through, PDF via social apps on smartphones, online teaching through google classrooms, Microsoft teams, etc. The policy dialogue on May 2, ...

A policy dialogue on “Mainstreaming Social-Emotional Learning” was held by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) on March 13th, 2021, via Zoom. LINKS: Full Video: PD#13, 2 hours 29 minutes PRESENTATIONS Why Social-Emotional Learning – Dr. Anantha Duraiappah Mindfulness and Science Behind It – Dr. Tara de Mel Enabling environment approach for achieving SDG 4.7 objectives – Mr. Matthew MacGregor-Stubbs ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are in the thick of a pandemic, but relief is on the horizon thanks to science. More and more vaccines are becoming available and self-tests for Covid-19 are becoming cheaper. This is exactly the time for Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education and Provincial authorities to get into action with a roadmap in hand. Following is a roadmap based on ...

රූපවාහිනිය, වට්ස්ඇප් හෝ මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍ය හරහා ලබා දෙන අන්තර්ගතය අධ්‍යාපනය නොවේ දෙමාපියන්ගෙන් ගුරු භූමිකාව බලාපොරොත්තු වීම වැරදිය. පාසැල් පැවත් විය යුතු දිනවල නිවෙස්වල සිටිමට සිදුවන  සිසුන්ව පෙ. ව. 7. 30-ප.ව. 1.30 කාලය තුළ ඉගෙනීමේ රඳවා තබා ගැනීම පාසල්වල වගකීම වේ. පාසල් විවෘත කිරීමේ/වැසීමේ තීරණ ගැනීම විමධ්‍යගත කළ යුතුයි තම තමන්ගේ ප්‍රාදේශීය තත්වයන්ට සරිලන පරිදි දරුවන් නොකඩවා අධ්‍යාපනයට සම්බන්ධ කරගැනීමට ...

கோவிட் கல்வி நெருக்கடியானது தலைமுறையினர்களை பாதிக்கும் கல்வி சோகமாக மாற ஒரு போதும் இடமளிக்க வேண்டாம். PD  # 15 – டாக்டர். தாரா டி மெல் இன்று நாம் உலகம் முழுவதையும் பாதிப்புக்கு உள்ளாக்கும் ஒரு பயங்கரமான தொற்றுநோய் நிலைமையை எதிர்கொள்கிறோம். இதன் விளைவாக, 2020 பிப்ரவரி மற்றும் மார்ச் மாதங்களில், உலகம் முழுவதும் ஒரே நேரத்தில் பாடசாலைகளை மூட வேண்டிய நிலை ஏற்பட்டது. இரண்டாம் உலகப் போருக்குப் பிறகு இதுவே முதல் முறையாக ஒவ்வொரு நாட்டிலும் உள்ள பாடசாலைகளை ஒரே நேரத்தில் ...

Do not let the Covid education crisis become a generational catastrophe Dr. Tara de Mel The whole world is in the middle of a pandemic. Beginning around March 2020, schools across the world had to close at once, for first time since World War II.  The health crisis created by the pandemic is obviously the number one priority. The economic ...

To our knowledge, the non-state sector in higher education in Sri Lanka is largely undocumented. The only comprehensive survey available was carried out by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) in 2012 in partnership with LIRNEAsia and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The information is reposted here in the public interest. The higher education landscape is captured as a directory ...

கோவிட் கல்வி நெருக்கடிக்கு முகங்கொடுக்க 10 உந்துவதற்கான கொள்கை அம்சங்கள் மே 7,  2021 PressRelease3_2021_May07_CovidCrisis_T பாடவுள்ளடக்கங்களை தொலைக்காட்சி, வாட்ஸ்அப் அல்லது அச்சு வடிவத்தில் வழங்குவதாவது கல்வி அல்ல பெற்றோர்களிடம் ஆசிரியர் நடிபங்கை எதிர்ப்பார்ப்பது பிழையானது. வீட்டிலிருக்க வேண்டிய மாணவர்களை 30 மு.ப தொடக்கம் 1.30 பி.ப வரை குறித்தொதுக்கப்பட்ட பாடசாலை நாட்களில் கற்பதற்கு பொறுப்பாக வைத்திருக்கும் கடப்பாடு பாடசாலைக்குரியதாகும் மொழி, கணிதம் மற்றும் விஞ்ஞானம் போன்ற பாடங்களின் கட்டாய தேர்ச்சி திறன்கள

Click here for video. Mr. Niresh Eliatamby of Cogitaro provided a description of the global university rankings system and its important role in the reputation of universities and countries, including the opportunities for universities to generate their own revenue rather than depend on state funding. Emphasis was placed on the dramatic rise of Asian universities into the top 100 of ...

Prepared by Niresh Eliatamby and Dr. Ruwan Dias, Cogitaro The important contemporary topic of ‘World Class Universities & Universal Higher Education: Can We Have It All?’ was the theme of the latest Education Policy Dialogue, organized by Education Forum Sri Lanka and held on Saturday 15th August 2020. The webinar provided insights and discussed challenges that would of much ...

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 ...

A policy dialogue on “Reopening schools and education delivery until then” was held by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) on May 15th, 2021, via Zoom. LINKS: Full Video: PD#15, 2 hours 33  minutes (In Sinhala) PRESENTATIONS Dr. Tara de Mel, Former Secretary, Ministry of Education Ms. Renuka Peiris, Former Director, Health and Safety, Ministry of Education (renukapeiris19@gmail.com Mr. R. ...

Schools across England are set to open on Monday March 8.  They will be using multiple levels of testing to ensure the safety of the students. The plan is for all staff at levels and  all students in secondary and college levels (excepting primary level)  to be tested three times before they are allowed to return to school. After they ...

The Education Forum Sri Lanka (www.educationforum.lk) commenced a series of Policy Dialogues on March 7th at the Kingsbury Hotel, with the aim of catalyzing policy reforms in Education. The topic of discussion centered around the Quality of Primary Education, Curricula & Assessments, and whether Sri Lanka is on par globally in regards to primary education quality & delivery. The first ...