EXAMS DEPT'S TASKS WILL BE REVISED

Education Ministry to strengthen its supervisory role

Amidst complaints about errors in question papers and irregularities in Zscores, the Education Ministry has decided to 'strengthen' its supervisory role over the Department of Examinations, and to overhaul its functions, officials said yesterday.

Restructure the functions of the Department to ensure that its credibility would not suffer in any of its activities in the future.

Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Jayaratne told Daily Mirror that he would take steps to restructure

the functions of the Department to ensure that its credibility would not suffer in any of its activities in the future.

"Of course, there cannot be any fault on the part of the Department," he said.

Mr. Jayaratne said he would not leave any stone unturned in his programme to reform the activities of the Ministry and the various institutions coming under it.

Asked about actions to be taken in this exercise, he said the internal administration of the Department would be redeveloped with the assistance of the Ministry of Public Management Reforms.

"We will look to the capacity develop-

I am happy to entertain views of the general public in this regard. Their proposals are welcome. I listen to them patiently. I meet around 500 people who come to the Ministry every Wednesday

ment of officials and monitoring them. We will have a review of the systems and procedures. We are responsible to the parents and the students," he said.

"I am happy to entertain the views of the general public in this regard. Their proposals are welcome. I listen to them patiently. I meet around 500 people who come to the Ministry every Wednesday," he said.

Besides, he said, the teachers who had worked at national schools for more than 20 years would be transferred immediately.

"I will not hesitate to take action in this case. We have identified certain changes that need to be made in the school administrative structure," he said.