School Reopening in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan children have been kept away from school from time to time, (for nearly two years and a half) since March 2020, predominantly because of the global pandemic and recently because of the disturbances caused by the economic crisis the country is facing at the moment. It is evident that millions of children are
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Government and government approved private schools will be reopened from Monday, 25th of July 2022

According to the circular issued on 19.07.2022, as the instructions given by the Ministry of Education to the Provincial Secretaries of Education, Provincial Directors of Education, Zonal Directors of Education, Divisional Deputy / Assistant Directors of Education and all Principals Government and government approved private schools will be reopened from Monday, 25th of July 2022
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A donation of ten thousand metric tons of rice from People’s Republic of China.

A donation of ten thousand metric tons of rice from People’s Republic of China to continue the school mid-day meal program The school food program implemented successfully for about 30 years providing mid-day meal to one million eighty thousand children in 7925 schools in the country is not properly conducted now in the face of
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The summit held at the headquarters of UNESCO organization in Paris with the participation of the ministers of education from all countries.

An educational summit was held at the headquarters of UNESCO organization in Paris on 29th of June with the participation of the ministers of education from all countries. The Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha participated in it representing Sri Lanka. The main objective of this summit, which was held under the theme of “Transforming
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A meeting between the Japanese Ambassador in Sri Lanka and the Minister of Education.

A meeting between the Japanese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Mr. Mizukoshi Hideaki and The Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha was taken place today the 24th at ‘Isurupaya’ Ministry of Education. The international relationships between Japan and Sri Lanka and the present education system in our country and the scheduled program to be implemented in
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Special Program for covering the missing learning periods of students by shortening the August and December vacations…

– The Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha The Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha says that actions will be taken to shorten the coming school holidays in August and December and increase the days of conducting schools whereby all missed learning periods by children will be covered. The minister said this after a meeting
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Performing educational activities in schools within the week 20 – 24 June, 2022

It has been decided to conduct educational activities in the following manner during the week from 20.06.2022 to 24.06.2022 based on the information presented in the discussion conducted online on 18.06.2022 by the officers of the Ministry of Education with the provincial education officers. The views obtained from the principals and divisional and zonal directors
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Providing relief to the teachers due to current transportation difficulties

Considering the requests of the teachers, arrangements have been made to give temporary service placements to easy schools under the following conditions. These placements will be effective only till 31.12.2022 and all these placements must be activated only upon the written agreement of the principals of the two schools without occurring any obstacle to the
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Applications and the instructions to admit students to grade one of the government schools in 2023 are issued

Applications and the relevant instructions including procedures to admit students to grade one of the government schools in 2023 have been issued. Those applications and the instructions can be obtained entering the official web site of the Ministry of Education www.moe.gov.lk. The relevant series of instructions and the application have been sent together with this. Download
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Restructuring of education is from pre-school…Gifted children are selected since grade 09 and directed to vocational education…

– Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha Minister of Education Dr. Susil Premajayantha says that the entire education must be restructured and that complete change must be started from pre-school. The system of education must be changed dividing one segment of children for sending to the field of higher education and another segment with talents
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