The Campaign for Better Education is launching its monthly newspaper “Paasala” today, August 25, at 3pm at the Library Services Board auditorium on Independence Avenue. A public seminar too will be held.
Speakers:
Prof. Lala perera
Dr. G B Gunawardena
S M Ariyarathna de Alwis, Educationist
Nimal Munsinghe, Activist,
Lanka Jathika Guru Sangamaya
Anthar Vishva Vidyala Bala Mandalaya
යහපත් අද්ධියාපනයක් සදහා වූ වියාපාරය මගින් මාසිකව පල කෙරීමට යන ‘පාසල’ නම්වූ මාසික පුවත් පත දියත් කිරීම හා ප්රසිද්ධ සම්මන්ත්රණය අද අගෝස්තු 25 වැනිදා සවස තුනට ජාතික පුස්තකාල සේවා මණ්ඩල ශ්රවනාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වෙනු ඇත.
අදහස් දැක්වීම්:
මහාචාර්ය ලාල් පෙරේරා
ආචාර්ය ජී බී ගුනවර්ධන
අද්ධියාපනඥ එස් එම් ආරියරත්න ද අල්විස්
සමාජ ක්රියාකාරික නිමල් මුනසිංහ
ශ්රී ලංකා ගුරු සංගමය
අන්තර් විශ්ව ව්ද්යාල ශිෂ්ය බල මණ්ඩලය
Interesting article by Edward B. Fiske (former Times education editor and author of the Fiske Guide to Colleges) about (a) how Reagan appointed a commission to push a political agenda that included voluntary prayers in schools, but the commission he appointed came up with a report that focused on quality of education and (b) why [...]
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LST FORUM
New Education Act:
Issues and ProposedRecommendations
By
Dr. SujataGamage
Coordintor, EducationForum
Director, KnowledgeNetworks
LIRNEasia
Thurs 24 April
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This post is part of a series by the Education Forum on how school education is delivered in other parts of the world.
From Article by Bruce Sheerin, Ministry of Education, New Zealand
(titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=1756152/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/wppdf?file=5kzr6wrctk9p.pdf)
The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school [...]
Justine Ferrari, Education writer | February 05, 2008
(www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23161015-13881,00.html)
PUBLIC schools in NSW will be free to hire their own teachers under changes announced yesterday, but the union has threatened to fight the move.
Education Minister John Della Bosca said all government schools would have the option of advertising openly to fill vacancies.
Schools would still have the choice [...]
Notice of Public Meeting
on
Recommendations for a New Education Act
February 18, Monday, 2008, 3p – 5p
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
Sri Lanka Education Forum has been hosting a series of meetings to identify areas of agreement among civil society organizations regarding recommendations for a New Education Act to the Ministry of Education’s Committee to Draft [...]
The Education forum has conducted 3 study sessions so far with a good cross section of persons representing Associations of teachers, principals, and past pupils and educationists and well wishers. Compilation of past legislations, circulars and Policy papers are now complete. Paper copies of these can be obtained for the cost of photocopying from Ms. [...]
In Sri Lanka, as in many others countries with a centralized teacher service, there is a problem of getting teachers to locate In poor rural (and estate) areas, when they can tap patronage systems to obtain transfers to more popular areas. Various incentives schemes have been tried, in a number of countries including Sri Lanka, [...]
Submission of Proposals for formulating a New Education Act
(Advertisement posted by National Committee
for the Drafting of a New Education Act on January 17, 2008)
On the Directions of His Excellency the President, the Minister of Education, Hon. Susil Premajayantha has appointed a National Committee under the chairmanship of Dr G. B. Gunawardena and comprising panel [...]