Sri Lanka Education Forum

 National Policy on Information Technology in School Education Source : http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=1397 In an effort to fully utilise funding and other relevant resources, the Government of Sri Lanka established an IT Education Unit at the Ministry of Education in February 2001 and prepared a National Policy on School IT Education, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers in October 2001. A six year strategic plan was implemented based on this policy.     Introduction The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) of Sri Lanka is of the view that Sri Lanka, as a nation, is lagging behind in the development of Information Technology (IT), when compared ...

What happened to National ICT Education Drive ? As we all agree ICT Literacy is considered as one of the very important components of the Education in the 21st century. Since 1980s various attempts were made to bring computers into the school curriculum. Unfortunately only in 2004, ICT was introduced as a subject in Grade 12 (A/L) (GIT) and subject in O/L(OL-IT) in Sri Lanka. In 2005 Ministry of Education launched an ICT Literacy Drive proposing Department of Examination to conduct ICT Literacy Examination Island wide. According to this any Sri Lankan could sit for ICT Literacy Examination without any pre ...