The Minister of Education G.L. Pieris stated that the gap between the modern job opportunities and the education provided through the schools and the universities in this country must be removed and if not, there will be a younger generation going against the prevailing system and living in disgust with entire society. The minister expressed

A significant step of making the national education policy a reality, the task of providing equal opportunities in education for all children in the country, was started today (17) at the ministry of education.  Accordingly, a special meeting was held today morning at the ministry of education with the leadership of The Minister of Education

The Minister of Education Professor G. L. Pieris mentioned that HE the President has expanded the scope of duties of the ministry of education consisted of 4 state ministries by merging several institutions that had been functioning separately with the aim of improving properly the human resource our inborn wealth for the development of the

The ministry of education has issued a circular containing the instructions for all provincial and zonal education authorities and the principals of sports schools how to implement the activities related to the development of the sports schools including admission of students, administration and the financial matters with the coordination of both education and sports ministries.

It was decided to increase the admission to state university medical faculties by 350 at a discussion held recently (04) headed by the Education Minister G.L. Pieris. This decision was taken according to HE the President’s National Policy Framework, ‘Vision for Prosperity’ which says the aim of preparing a program to give opportunities for obtaining

A discussions was held today (07) between the representatives of the UNICEF and The Minister of Education G.L. Pieris about the future contribution of the UNICEF to take actions for the development of primary education in Sri Lanka.   The UNICEF expressed their willingness at this occasion to submit all expected proposals that should be implemented

The world literacy day celebrated this year on the theme of learning and teaching of literacy during and beyond the covid 19 situation is showing the new dimensions of the development of literacy in all countries in comparison with the previous years. At the 14th session of UNESCO general assembly held on 26th of October

The Minister of Education G.L. Pieris says that the objective of new education reforms is to create through the system of education the children empowered with practical skills for overcoming the challenges using the logical intelligence and the analytical skills not being limited to the subject knowledge they acquired learning by heart.  The minister expressed