Poor teacher recruitment policies hamper academic performance of govt. schools: IPS

Sri Lanka’s free education system that is expected to be the foundation in bridging the expanding talent dearth is far from reaching its goal due to poor teacher recruitment policies set and executed by the government, an in-depth research by a leading economic think-tank revealed.

A report launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) yesterday highlighted that ad-hoc recruitment practices coupled with poor planning on education spend, despite allocations, is said to have hampered the academic performance at school level, mainly at the General Certificate in Education (GCE) Ordinary Level (O/L) examinations.

IPS Research Fellow Nisha Arunatilake presenting findings of the study while IPS Research Officer Ashani Abayasekara looks on Pic by Damith Wickramasinghe