Pres­i­dent Mai­thri­pa­la Sir­i­se­na this week urged Ed­u­ca­tion ex­perts to con­fer and bring about a mod­ern-day ap­proach with ef­fec­tive meas­ures to up­lift the stand­ards of the Na­tion­al Ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem. The Pres­i­dent speak­ing at the cen­te­na­ry cel­e­bra­tions of St. John’s Col­lege, Nu­ge­go­da, on Tues­day, ques­tioned the suc­cess of the Na­tion­al Schools con­cept and its prac­ti­cal im­ple­men­ta­tion in [...]

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Pres­i­dent Mai­thri­pa­la Sir­i­se­na this week urged Ed­u­ca­tion ex­perts to con­fer and bring about a mod­ern-day ap­proach with ef­fec­tive meas­ures to up­lift the stand­ards of the Na­tion­al Ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

The Pres­i­dent speak­ing at the cen­te­na­ry cel­e­bra­tions of St. John’s Col­lege, Nu­ge­go­da, on Tues­day, ques­tioned the suc­cess of the Na­tion­al Schools con­cept and its prac­ti­cal im­ple­men­ta­tion in im­prov­ing the stand­ards of the Ed­u­ca­tion Sys­tem to pro­vide an equal op­por­tu­ni­ty for stu­dents to prac­tice their right to Ed­u­ca­tion.

He said that, though the coun­try has ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10,000 schools with 390,000 stu­dents re­ceiv­ing ed­u­ca­tion, there is shad­ow dis­crim­i­na­tion of stu­dents as a cer­tain pro­por­tion of schools has been rec­og­nized as Na­tion­al Schools, while the ma­jor­i­ty have no such rec­og­ni­tion, which dis­cour­age stu­dents from study­ing in such schools. He fur­ther ques­tioned the cri­te­ria and the guid­ance un­der whom the au­thor­i­ties fol­low in such cat­e­go­ri­sa­tion of schools.

As a re­sult of the cat­e­go­ri­sa­tion, many stu­dents un­able to en­ter Na­tion­al Schools un­der var­i­ous cir­cum­stan­ces, would be psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly af­fec­ted, dis­cour­aged and even­tu­al­ly, left out from the Ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem to re­ceive high­er Ed­u­ca­tion.

He said that some schools with­out the Na­tion­al school tag have pro­duced good re­sults with limi­ted re­sour­ces, while oth­er schools of sim­i­lar stand­ard have great­er re­sour­ces than a Na­tion­al School in pro­vid­ing bet­ter ed­u­ca­tion to stu­dents.

He said that the Ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem should not be cat­e­gor­ised ac­cord­ing to eth­nic­i­ty and re­li­gion, with the chil­dren bar­ri­ca­ded from ex­er­cis­ing their right to free ed­u­ca­tion, to cre­ate so­cial co­he­sion and in­te­gra­tion.

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