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Education

Sri Lanka SIS warned not to grant wage hike for protesting University staff: State Minister

Non-academic staff at state universities have been protesting for 65 days demanding wage hike

July 5, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka's teachers must be disciplined: President

"Education in a country cannot be maintained without discipline"

July 3, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka mulls designating teaching an essential service

Teachers should be present in schools during morning hours to ensure the education of children

June 27, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to digitize monks' education through piriven

Will be provided computers, smart boards and printers.

June 25, 2024 1 min read
Sri Lanka IPS invites proposals for Saman Kelegama research grant

Merit-based grant awarded to an outstanding undergraduate studying in a Sri Lankan university.

Sri Lanka's CSE partners with Rajarata University to raise financial literacy amid pump & dump deals

Country's financial literacy has been low and many rural investors had to leave with empty hands in 2011 market collapse

September 30, 2022 2 min read

Worsening period poverty in Sri Lanka threatens to keep female students home: MP

As of September, the price of a 15-napkin pack ranges from 350 to 800 rupees in the market

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 22, 2022 3 min read

Sri Lanka Peradeniya University student suicide puts spotlight back on ragging

“We can’t speak up even if we want to, because we don’t want to get ragged"

Dulya de Silva
September 22, 2022 4 min read
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Several Sri Lanka Consular Division offices closed over system breakdown

Office in Colombo 01 and regional offices in Jaffna, Trincomalee, Matara, Kandy and Kurunegala are closed

Roshani Fernando
September 17, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka declares Monday Sep 19 school holiday

The ministry of public administration and home affairs had previously declared September 19 a national day of mourning

September 15, 2022 1 min read

Atlas, Sarvodaya to raise $1.5 mln for underprivileged Sri Lankan children

The campaign expects to help 100,000 children “who are most in danger of dropping out of school”

Roshani Fernando
September 15, 2022 3 min read

Sri Lanka to introduce voucher system for school uniforms from 2024

The voucher system was introduced in 2015 by the Yahapalana government.

Chanka Jayasinghe
August 23, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka private bus owners expect to operate at 90 pct as schools reopen

"We plan to commence bus services 100 percent islandwide. If not 100 percent, at least 90 percent should be doable."

August 15, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka govt schools to start from July 25

Schools start after more than one month closure due to fuel shortage

July 23, 2022 1 min read

Lanka’s cultural sperm whale

Social Learning and Cooperation Go Deep

Mark Hager
July 22, 2022 11 min read
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Sri Lanka's GCE Advanced Level exams will likely be delayed by one month: minister

The exams were previously scheduled to be held from October 17 to November 12.

July 4, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka announces week-long school holiday in face of fuel crisis

The lost school dates will be recovered through the next term holidays.

Dulya de Silva
July 3, 2022 2 min read

Schools in Sri Lanka to open for three days as fuel crisis continues

Online classes will be held on Monday 27 and Friday July 01, the ministry said.

June 25, 2022 1 min read

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's fuel shortage forces closure of schools, largest state university 

Fuel crisis hits education institutions.

June 19, 2022 1 min read

Bear Necessities

Lanka’s Deadliest Mammal: No Apex Predator but misbranded for sloth.

Mark Hager
March 24, 2022 9 min read

Over 16 pct Sri Lanka state uni students sexually harassed, 1.5 pct forced into sex: study

The study covered a cross section of universities: old and new unis, and those situated in previous conflict zones.

March 22, 2022 4 min read

Paper shortages force schools in Sri Lanka's western province to postpone exams

Final term tests for grades 9, 10 and 11 would therefore have to be postponed to the next school term.

March 19, 2022 2 min read

Ensuring equal access to EdTech for all students in Sri Lanka

Do we teach the rich and the poor differently?

Kshama Ranawana
March 19, 2022 6 min read

Sri Lanka former PM calls for pause to power cuts till advanced level exams end

"Because the outages occur at different times in different areas, they can file a fundamental rights petition,” he sai...

February 23, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka Technological Campus gets Rs290mn infusion after acqusition

To set up a city campus

January 29, 2022 2 min read
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