Isuru wadasatahana mathugamatath…..

February 26th, 2009 - Posted By Inoka Udayangani

ඉසුරු වැඩසටහන මතුගමටත්….
ජේ්‍ය්ෂ්ඨ පාසල් වලින් ප‍්‍රාථමික පාසල් වෙන් කළ නොහැකිද? එහෙම නැහැ. සුපිරි පාසල් වලින් බලය විකේන්ද්‍රණය කළ හැකියි.
ජනප‍්‍රිය පාසල් වලින් ප‍්‍රාථමිකය වෙන්කර අඩු ආදායම් ලාභී අධ්‍යාපන කොට්ඨාශ වල ඇති 150 ක් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමට සත්භාවයෙන් වැඩ කරන ස්වෙච්ඡුා සේවකයන් පිරිසක් පසුබිමෙන් සිටිනවා. මොවුන්ගේ පරමාර්ථය වනුයේ අසල්වැසි ප‍්‍රාථමික පාසල් පොකුරෙන් දක්ෂ දරුවන්ගෙන් සමන්විත අඩු තරමේ එක් [...]

Official Declaration of 2009 as the Year of English and Information and Communication Technology

February 18th, 2009 - Posted By Kalpana Ambrose

Through out the history of Sri Lanka, the decisions related to language education made by responsible decision makers, have pushed the country towards disputes, unrest, distrust among each other, lack of harmony and inefficiency in the competent world aiming towards a global village.  President Rajapakse’s annoucemnt gives us a ray of hope about a potentiality to [...]

ministry playing see-no-evil with year-1 kappam?

February 9th, 2009 - Posted By Sujata Gamage

According to a news item in the Lankadeepa a parent who refused to pay Rs: 6500 as admission fee for Gampola Zahira  was beaten up in the school premises by some one who  had said ” Because of you the school  did not get the money it needed”.
Apparently, the school development society had decided to [...]

Isuru Program at work in Matugama

February 9th, 2009 - Posted By Sujata Gamage

Separating primary schools from larger schools is an impossiblity? Not so, if you move away from the power orbits  of the super schools. Behind the scenes, a few dedicated officials are trying to separate primary schools from popular schools in a set of 150 low income education divisions.  The goal is develop at least one [...]

Right to Education…for “Every” Child

January 21st, 2009 - Posted By Kalpana Ambrose

Malathie Kalpana Ambrose
 
Statistically we hold a higher state in education among the South Asian countries. Proudly we declare that our literacy rate is above 92%. But do all our children enjoy their right to education? How about the children in refugee camps in North and East? How about the children in remote areas where they have [...]

Realizing curriculum mistakes after ages…Yet to see more?

January 18th, 2009 - Posted By Kalpana Ambrose

Malathie Kalpana Ambrose
It is great to see that after ages policy makers  are realizing that the existing curricula has not been producing holistic personalities throughout the past. But realizing that fact itself will not be enough, unless the policy proposals bring about a vital change in to curricula development.
 
The following proposals were taken from the [...]

Exemplary school principal remanded on bribery charges

December 14th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage

I was shocked to read about the arrest of Mr. H.M. Dayananda on charges of bribery as reported in the Lankadeepa newspaper on December 02nd. I first met Mr. Dayanada as a speaker at an education forum meeting at the SLFI. Since then he attended several other meetings organized by the forum bringing other principals [...]

GCE(O/L) pass rates over time

October 7th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage

(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 [...]

යහපත් අධ්යාපනයක් සඳහා ව්යාපාරයක ආරම්භය

September 17th, 2008 - Posted By Anushka Kahandagamage

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 [...]

Private Market for Teachers in Sri Lanka

September 16th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage

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, [...]