– The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris The flexibility of views of children is generated during the childhood and a great service is rendered by the scout movement to generate team spirit, empathy and composure among the children and to develop good qualities while creating a strong foundation to face the challenges in life,

The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris said that when identified the people who are deprived of privileges and missed the opportunities to come forward and given opportunities for them, they will achieve successful results and the policy of the government is to eyewitness the problems of people in villages and to provide solutions for

The ministry of education has prohibited engaging the school children for the programs organized with health risks contacting with the outside people and the programs such as processions, vehicle parades and concerts held gathering the children in large numbers outside of the school premises.   However, this prohibition is not relevant to the co-curricular activities organized

The secretary of education Professor Kapila Perera has instructed all provincial, zonal and divisional education authorities and the heads of Pirivenas and the principals to stop holding march-pasts, musical band shows and concerts etc. in the schools except co-curricular activities and extra-curricular activities which are relevant to the educational quality development of the children although

The secretary of education Professor Kapila Perera emphasizes that some information have been received that in some schools various functions are held and do relevant organizational work disregarding the prevailing unsafe and risky situation due to the current covid 19 pandemic. And also it is a time that entire school community must work with great

The G.C.E. Ordinary Level Examination that was scheduled to be held in December 2020 is now going to be held from 1st to 11th of March 2021 and the secretary of education Professor Kapila Perera has given instructions to all education authorities in the provinces, zones, divisions and the heads of Pirivenas and the principals

The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris For a better communication between Sinhala and Tamil people, while the people in south are learning Tamil the people in the north must be taught Sinhala language. The school children in the north are willing to learn Sinhala language. Our government is working to fulfill that task at

The Minister of Education said that the government has identified it is successful to encourage the universities to conduct the courses most suitable for each of them in the process of developing the universities. Accordingly it is a great success to be able to provide an audio visual education unit complete with all the facilities

The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris mentioned that a special work load has to be done for the development of school education in the Northern Province under the interference of the government and the steps will be taken to identify the priorities and the actions will be taken to implement them practically after searching