Additional classes for O/L students at welfare centres

The Ministry of Education has made arrangements to hold additional classes for GCE O/L candidates in Welfare Centres during September.

Minister Susil Premajayantha revealed this during a function at his Ministry yesterday to hand over Rs. 800,000 worth of library books to schools in the Welfare Centres, donated by Government schools and private sources. The Minister also said that already a large number of programs are being implemented in relation to the education of the displaced students in the North and that the Ministry has already spent Rs.130 million on books, uniforms, desks, chairs and benches for a 86,000 student population and on dress material for 1800 teachers. Read more ...

Sri Lanka to reopen 17 closed schools in North

Sri Lanka Ministry of Education has taken steps to soon reopen several schools in the Northern Province which have been closed due to the war.

The Ministry added that 17 closed schools in the North would reopen for the third term of this year to facilitate the education opportunities to internally displaced children.

Education Ministry statistics point out that nearly 8,000 children living in the welfare camps in Vavuniya wish to recommence school activities. Read more ...

IDP children's education continues uninterrupted

Text and story books worth over Rs. 137 million have been sent to Menik Farm and other IDP welfare centers to be distributed among war displaced children. "This was the first stock of books scheduled to be distributed among the displaced children," Education Ministry official said.

Even though displaced, the Ministry is of the view that education must continue unhindered as children may get disoriented without schooling. "So the government has decided to provide necessary material to the school children and teaching staff of the region to continue academic activities," he further said.

Under the programme, 500 tables and chairs for teachers, 5,000 tables and chairs for students, school uniforms and clothes as well as a stock of text books for the students will be distributed in Vavuniya, Education Ministry said. (SJ) Source:

Urgent educational supplies sent to IDP kids

Ten thousand sets of school furniture and 25,000 sets of uniforms have been sent to Vavuniya this week for the children of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) to resume their education, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.

The education of IDP children will be conducted according to the normal curriculum. The child soldiers will have to be screened by the Army. “Boys who can be rehabilitated will be sent to rehabilitation centres. There is a programme called non-formal education. They will be trained under the non-formal education programmes,” the Minister added.

At the IDP camps the government has put up temporary shelters for education, using IDP teachers numbering roughly 3,000. These temporary shelters rigged up by the government comprise a total of 40 buildings. Read more ...