“Schools can be kept closed taking the challenge as an excuse. But we accepted the challenge of opening the schools while ensuring the health protection of the children.” – The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris

The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris said that the World Health Organization has stated that it will take nearly two years to eradicate the challenge of covid completely and under such circumstance it is not practical to block the schooling of children any further. Therefore, a decision was taken to open the schools while
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“It is my duty as the minister of education to investigate about the functioning of Madrasa schools,…. I will do it” The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Pieris

The Minister of Education mentioned that there was a formal mechanism in relation to the admission of students and teachers to Madrasa schools and the activities of those schools since the time when the present President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had been the secretary of defense. Butwhen the Yahapalana government came into power this mechanism was completely
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Steps to formulate a national policy on pre-school education

A special discussion was held on 19.11.2020 at the University Grants Commission with the leadership of The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris for the preparation of a national policy on pre-school education drawing the basic attention to the priorities and special aspects to be given to the pre-school education within the school system of
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Scholarship results are out Bursaries for 20,000 scholarship holders this time …

The results of the grade five scholarship examination held on 11.10.2020 was released yesterday (15) by the Department of Examinations and this time 20,000 scholarship holders have qualified to receive bursaries. This includes 250 students with special needs. This time 331,741 students had applied for the scholarship exam and 326,264 out of it sat for
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Island wide program for establishing English Smart Classes in all schools 200 smart classes for Southern Province under this ….

​A program for setting up of English Smart Classes designed using the new technology for the purpose of upgrading the English education in schools has been implemented Under the Right to Read Project in collaboration with the ministry of education. These English smart classes are conducted through an internet app which includes the courses prepared
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support to conduct continuously the advanced level examination in the face of challenges

The G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination held continuously from 12 th of October in 2648 exam centers throughout the country for 3,62824 students while facing the challenging environment emerged in the country due to second phase of spreading covid pandemic is ended today (06 thNovember). The subjects of Communication and Media Study, Greek and Roman Civilization
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“Isurupaya” is reopened from tomorrow (5).

The Secretary of the Ministry of Education Professor Kapila Perera says that ‘Isurupaya’ will bereopened from tomorrow which was closed temporarily with the information received saying thata Covid infected person was found.On the information received yesterday (3) that an officer in the State Ministry of EducationReforms which is situated within the premises of the Ministry
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Offering of flowers to the Kannangara statue to mark his 136th commemoration

Offering of flowers to the Kannangara statue to mark the 136th birth day commemoration of Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara occurred in the morning today (13) with the patronage of The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peris. A gathering including The State Minister of Education Dr. Susul PremJayanth, The State Minister of Education Vijith Berugoda, State Minister
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The same protective methods for Advanced Level Exam too, Send the children without any fear – The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris

It was possible to conduct the grade five scholarship examination today (11) without any issue, said The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris and he requested to send the children to the examination centers tomorrow for the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination also and the government has provided all health, defense and transport facilities for this
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Send your children to the scholarship examination without any fear – The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris [Video]

අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය, විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය, මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය පරීක්ෂකවරුන්, නගර සභා ඇතුළු සියලු ම පළාත් පාලන ආයතන 05ශ්‍රේණිය ශිෂ්‍යත්ව විභාගය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පූර්ව සූදානම් කටයුතු සෞඛ්‍යාරක්ෂිත ව සිදු කර අවසන්. විශේෂයෙන් ම සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමිය, අප අමාත්‍යාංශයේ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන පියල් නිශාන්ත, වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොළ, විජිත් බේරුගොඩ සහ සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත් ඇතුළු සියලු ම කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය විශේෂයෙන්
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