The Ministry of Education is said to introduce major changes in the education system in Sri Lanka during this year in an effort to enhance the quality of education delivered to students.

Some of the steps taken by the ministry include;

• Establishment of an independent supervisory council
• Make the 13 year continuous school education compulsory
• Provide an insurance scheme to all school students
• Provide tabs to all students and teachers of GCE Advanced level classes that will include the syllabuses and learning facilities.

As an introduction of technology to the classroom, the Education Publications Department has taken steps to prepare an electronic version of textbooks for several selected subjects. As an initial phase, e-books have been issued for Motor Mechanics and Bio-Chemical Science under the Technology stream at GCE Advanced Level.

The Ministry of Education recently also introduced the ‘cloud smart classroom’ project which closely links both classroom and technology. 25 schools will be used in the pilot project of computerising the school curriculum where the teaching and learning process will be carried out in English medium and technology will replace traditional teaching techniques.

The Ministry of Education believes that through these changes, they will be able to empower the school community to face the challenge of updating the system of education in line with the transformation of the modern world.

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