In order to review the student admissions into the intermediate grades of all National Schools in the country, the Ministry of Education has decided to suspend the admission of children into intermediate grades of National Schools under the present admission criteria, until further notice.   

The Minister of Education G.L. Pieris says that the steps must be taken to reform the universitysystem in this country to create a future generation which has acquired soon the knowledge andpractice of the modern technology providing the ability to reach the apex of developmentaccording to the emphasis given in the vision of prosperity the

අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් විසින් සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම රජයේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනය තුළ අවධාරණය කරන පරිදි සංවර්ධනයේ ඉහළ ම හිණිපෙත්තට ළගාවිය හැකි නූතන තාක්ෂණික දැනුම සහ භාවිතය නොපමාව අත්පත්කරගත් අනාගත පරපුරක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් මෙරට විශ්වවිද්‍යාල පද්ධතිය ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයට පියවර ගතයුතු බව අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා සදහන් කරයි. අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ, පසුගිය

The Minister of Education G.L. Pieris said that it has been decided to admit 405 more students this year to 06 main engineering faculties in this country. The minister stated this while attending a discussion held at the Higher Education Ministry premises at Ward Place.  These 405 admissions are scheduled to be taken place at

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