Education given top priority in election manifestos Education an Accessible Right to all ages and for all times -- Anura Kumara Dissanayake -National Peoples Power
Education and higher education have been given top priority in the election manifestos of the two top candidates -- the New Democratic Front candidate Sajith Premadasa and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. They have pledged swe
Establishing IT, new syllabuses and methodology within the education system
Information Technology (IT)
Establishing an Early Childhood Development centre within 2 km from his/her home or the worksite of the parents
Recruiting to State service qualified administrators and teachers for the Early Childhood Development centres
Teaching other national Languages and English in addition to the mother tongue
Holding multi-religious, multi communal and multicultural programmes in schools to enable students contribute to national unity actively Providing a free nutritious meal for every child Providing 13 years of compulsory academic or vocational education for every child Establishing a primary school with all necessary facilities within 4 km from the child’s home or worksite of the parents Creating an evaluation system that assesses the personal skills of students, instead of the harsh educatiaon that targets examinations Directing all students for academic or vocational education streams after a national level examination held on selected subjects at the end of Grade 9 Results of GCE (O/L) and GCE (A/L) examinations to be released within a month Promoting Teacher Training Colleges and National Colleges of Education to the level of Degree-awarding institutions Encompass teacher profession among the top 10 jobs receiving higher salaries University admissions to be carried out within 3 months after the A/L results have been released Establishing a new university system for post Degrees in Science and Technology sectors Providing facilities for all citizens to be proficient in Sinhalese, Tamil and English Languages, as well as get knowledge about fundamental Law, IT and the use of technological equipment Establishing a teacher- student administrative structure to curb ragging and other forms of nuisance in higher educational institutes Preventing students in schools and higher educational institutions from falling prey to drugs.
Developing IT infrastructures such as business places, research, equipment, centers and highspeed internet access
To make IT sector a main foreign exchange earner within the next 5 years
Develop infrastructure to establish 5G technology within the next 5 years
Developing the highest human resource that builds a rational Sri Lanka as a community with excellent IT skills and making Sri Lanka the leader in providing IT solutions to the world. IT education will be made available from early childhood, while non formal educational systems would be utilized to provide Information Technology Literacy to adults.
The two disaster management systems created by Sri Lanka, for the first time in the world, will be made the most efficient disaster management systems in the world.