By Ranee Mohamed We received several responses to our article titled “Fractured Discipline?” which was published in The Sunday Leader of July 25 which focuses on the anguish of a family and one of their eight children. The parents of Dinal Fonseka — Amaranath and Srini Fonseka allege that after the publication of this article [...]
The Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) has organized a protest outside the Colombo Zonal Education Office today (4) demanding the payment of salary arrears. CTU convener, Joseph Stalyn said that teachers would protest outside the Colombo Zonal Education Office at 2 p.m. demanding the payment of arrears in their salaries for the past five years. Stalyn [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge Hundreds of young IDPs and the newly resettled, will be sitting the Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations this year. A representative from the Examinations Department said that a total of 214,239 candidates would be sitting for the exams through their respective schools. A further 54,694 would be sitting the exams privately, he [...]
Speaking to the Sunday leader, secretary to the Ministry of Education Mr. Suniljayantha Navarathne said that the government’s plans for reforming Sri Lankas higher education set-up will be implemented in phases shortly. ‘We are currently formulating our strategic plan and will come up with an implementation schedule shortly’. The reforms to be implemented are two-fold; [...]
By Sujata Gamage PHD What we now have in the Sri Lankan school system is a strange ‘A, B and I, II, III’ typology where type IA schools have grades one to 13 with science; type IB with grades one to 13 but no science in grades 12-13; type II with grades up to only [...]
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The sight of teenagers who I only see in church on Christmas Day suddenly attending mass regularly in mid-April, kneeling at pews and praying fervently is always a sure sign that their examinations are around the corner. May and June are the most accursed months for those sitting for their GCSE O/Levels [...]
Education Emigres By R. Wijewardene in London I arranged to meet Sharia outside a grimy supermarket in a faceless north London suburb. But having waited half an hour, when she finally arrives I struggle to recognise her. We last met at a new year’s eve party in a five star hotel in Colombo. I recall [...]
By Lucky Luke A new series of short articles drawn from stories around the world start with a set of issues from Albion (the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain). The facts of this short story revolves around relief sought in a case in the UK. The case concluded without findings on [...]
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