4 million students study in approximately 10,000 public sector schools at primary and secondary levels in Sri Lanka. The World Bank supported Transforming the School Education System as the Foundation ...

This is Part 2 in our series on IDA-supported education programs in Sri Lanka. Part 1 Three Decades of Support to Improve Sri Lanka’s Education is available here For Sri Lanka, investment in education ...

Emeritus Professor Deshamanya J.B. Disanayaka, the most senior academic and a distinguished figure among contemporary Sinhala scholars in Sri Lanka will be felicitated at a ceremony on Friday, June 13 ...

The now retired Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo faced huge challenges during the takeover of Sri Lanka's Catholic-run schools by the state in the 1960s. The government policy was "certainly not a ...

Despite Sri Lanka’s longstanding commitment to free education and its commendable literacy rates, the country’s school education system remains deeply burdened by structural inequities and regional ...

The failings of the Sri Lankan education system are not confined to its funding model; they are deeply embedded in the very content of what is taught and how it is assessed. The current curriculum is ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept for Sri Lanka’s education sector. In 2024 and beyond, AI is steadily reshaping how Sri Lankan students learn, how educators teach, and how ...

Monks from Buddhist organization Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force, BBS) listen to a speech at a BBS convention in Colombo (September 28, 2014). Credit: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte Subscribe for ads ...

Language is far more than a system of voluntary symbols; it is the fundamental vessel of human culture, identity, and ...