යහපත් අධ්යාපනයක් සඳහා ව්යාපාරයක ආරම්භය

September 17th, 2008 - Posted By - Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Private Market for Teachers in Sri Lanka

September 16th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - 1 Comment

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, [...]

‘පාසල’ පුවත්පත අද එලි දැක්වේ

August 25th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Politics, Economy and Education

June 26th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Leave a Comment

.!. 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) [...]

Education news paper launched today

May 25th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Leave a Comment

.!. 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 [...]

Law and Society Trust Forum Presentation on Education

April 24th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Leave a Comment

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   [...]

School Education – New Zealand

April 19th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Leave a Comment

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-based Teacher Recruitment

February 19th, 2008 - Posted By Sujata Gamage - Comments Off

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 [...]

A Public Meeting on February 18th

February 15th, 2008 - Posted By Inoka Udayangani - Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Discussions on a New Education Act

February 14th, 2008 - Posted By Inoka Udayangani - Leave a Comment

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. [...]