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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 සමත් වීමෙන් පසු තවත් ජනප්රිය පාසලකට ඇතුළත් වීමේ වරම ලබා ඇත. එහෙත් ඔහුගේ දියණියට එම ජනප්රිය පාසල තුළ වැඩි කලක් අධ්යාපනය ලැබීමට නොහැකි වී ඇති අතර, එයට හේතු වී ඇත්තේ ඇය කෙරෙන් මතු වූ ආබාධ තත්ත්වයක්ය. මෙම ආබාධ තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන් තරප්පු පෙළවල් ඔස්සේ ඉහළ මහළවලට ...

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, colleges, educational and vocational training institutes in Sri Lanka. How the doeas the experience of teaching in the private sector compare with the public sector?  Do let us know.

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 economic productivity of a country  is not correlated with educational achievements. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25fiske.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all) Op-Ed Contributor A Nation at a Loss NYT 2008/04/25/Opinion TOMORROW is the 25th anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” a remarkable document that became a milestone in the history of American education — albeit in ways that its ...

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 Emaillst@eureka.lk  

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 (http://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 boards and principals to obtain advice on the complex issues around designing schools. To inform schools, the Ministry of Education provides numerous publications related to design and selected best practice samples via its website.   Local decision making New Zealand schools have been responsible for their ...

Justine Ferrari, Education writer | February 05, 2008 (http://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 of asking the Education Department to appoint a teacher, as occurs in the current system. But from the second term in 2010, principals will no longer be obliged to accept the teacher at the top of the department's transfer list. Selection panels for the vacancies will ...

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 a New Education Act. The final meeting in the series is to be held on February 18, 2008, Monday, 3pm to 5pm at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. The Education Forum is a group of professional, academic, corporate and civil society individuals and organizations representing ...

The Education forum has conducted 3 study sessions so far with a good cross section of persons representing Associations of teachers, principals, and past pupils and  educationists and well wishers. Compilation of past legislations, circulars and Policy papers are now complete. Paper copies of these can be obtained for the cost of photocopying from Ms. Inoka Udayanganie at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. Compilation of proposals from various groups into one document is in progress. Following is a summary of discussions so far.   January 24 RMB Senanayake (Economist); Tissa amarakoon, WA Upali Alwis, Y. Madavan (North Colombo Community Organization);  and Gamini Jayakody ((School Development ...