(Pass rate = percent of school candidates passing 6 subjects including math and language)
GCE O/L pass rates have doubled over the decade spanning 1995 to 2005.Here are some data (data_ed_ol_examresults1 What do you make of the data?
1. From 1995 to 2000 the pass rates increased dramatically 20% to 40%. Why? Is it because:
a. Education [...]
මෙම ව්යාපාරයේ ඇරඹුම සනිටුහන් වන්නේ එක් පියෙක් තම දරුවා වෙනුවෙන් නැගූ හඬ ලාංකේය සිසු පරපුර වෙනුවෙන්ම ව්යාප්ත කිරීමට සිතූ මොහොතකයි. මෙම ව්යාපාරයේ නිර්මාතෘ උපාලි චන්ද්රසිරිගේ සංකල්පනාවකට අනුවයි.
උපාලි සඳහන් කරන ආකාරයට යහපත් අධ්යාපනයක් සඳහා අරගලයට මුල් වී ඇත්තේ සිය දියණියගේ අධ්යාපනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මතූවූ අර්බුදයන්ය. නගරයේ උසස් යැයි සම්මත ප්රථමික පාසලක ඉගෙනුම ලැබූ ඔහුගේ දියණිය ශිෂ්යත්ව විභාගය [...]
You love to teach but don’t want to go after politicians to get your dream job? The growing market in private education seems to be opening up job opportunities for teachers. A Web site dedicated to finding a teacher http://www.FAT.lk is evidence. Apparantly the site contains over 1500 ads for and by teachers in schools, [...]
The Campaign for Better Education is launching its monthly newspaper “Paasala” today, August 25, at 3pm at the Library Services Board auditorium on Independence Avenue. A public seminar too will be held.
Speakers:
Prof. Lala perera
Dr. G B Gunawardena
S M Ariyarathna de Alwis, Educationist
Nimal Munsinghe, Activist,
Lanka Jathika Guru Sangamaya
Anthar Vishva Vidyala Bala Mandalaya
යහපත් අද්ධියාපනයක් සදහා වූ වියාපාරය මගින් මාසිකව පල කෙරීමට යන ‘පාසල’ නම්වූ මාසික පුවත් පත දියත් කිරීම හා ප්රසිද්ධ සම්මන්ත්රණය අද අගෝස්තු 25 වැනිදා සවස තුනට ජාතික පුස්තකාල සේවා මණ්ඩල ශ්රවනාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වෙනු ඇත.
අදහස් දැක්වීම්:
මහාචාර්ය ලාල් පෙරේරා
ආචාර්ය ජී බී ගුනවර්ධන
අද්ධියාපනඥ එස් එම් ආරියරත්න ද අල්විස්
සමාජ ක්රියාකාරික නිමල් මුනසිංහ
ශ්රී ලංකා ගුරු සංගමය
අන්තර් විශ්ව ව්ද්යාල ශිෂ්ය බල මණ්ඩලය
Interesting article by Edward B. Fiske (former Times education editor and author of the Fiske Guide to Colleges) about (a) how Reagan appointed a commission to push a political agenda that included voluntary prayers in schools, but the commission he appointed came up with a report that focused on quality of education and (b) why [...]
Law & Society Trust (LST)
3, Kynsey Terrace
Colombo 08
Sri Lanka
Tel: +94 (11) 269 1228 / 268 4845
Fax: +94 (11) 268 6843
www.lawandsocietytrust.org
LST FORUM
New Education Act:
Issues and ProposedRecommendations
By
Dr. SujataGamage
Coordintor, EducationForum
Director, KnowledgeNetworks
LIRNEasia
Thurs 24 April
5pm @
3, KynseyTerrace
Colombo08
RSVP Janaki 2691228/2684845
This post is part of a series by the Education Forum on how school education is delivered in other parts of the world.
From Article by Bruce Sheerin, Ministry of Education, New Zealand
(titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=1756152/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/wppdf?file=5kzr6wrctk9p.pdf)
The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school [...]
Justine Ferrari, Education writer | February 05, 2008
(www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23161015-13881,00.html)
PUBLIC schools in NSW will be free to hire their own teachers under changes announced yesterday, but the union has threatened to fight the move.
Education Minister John Della Bosca said all government schools would have the option of advertising openly to fill vacancies.
Schools would still have the choice [...]
Notice of Public Meeting
on
Recommendations for a New Education Act
February 18, Monday, 2008, 3p – 5p
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
Sri Lanka Education Forum has been hosting a series of meetings to identify areas of agreement among civil society organizations regarding recommendations for a New Education Act to the Ministry of Education’s Committee to Draft [...]