– The Prime Minister and the Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya

The Prime Minister and the Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, addressing the Islamic Religious Advisory Board, stated that all Sri Lankan students should be provided with a simple understanding and recognition of the aesthetic components present within all cultures, and that through this, mutual respect and genuine reconciliation could be established.

She further stated that strengthening activity-based practices in schools is one of the objectives of the new educational reforms, and that following these reforms, students will be directed towards an activity-centered educational methodology. Consequently, even religious education in schools will become activity-based in the future.

Responding to a proposal regarding the recruitment of teachers to teach the subject of Islam in Sinhala medium, the Minister further expressed that the relevant statistical data will be examined, and based on the necessity determined by those data, recruitment could be carried out.

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