New plan for intermediate classes in national schools says Ed. Ministry
View(s):The Education Ministry has suspended student admission to intermediate classes in all national schools in the country, and has devised a new system of advertising the vacancies on the Ministry website and calling for applications.
The intermediate classes are grade two to five, grade seven to ten and grade 12.
An Education Ministry official said a new system has been designed to ensure transparency in the admission system in the wake of allegations that malpractices are taking place.
The admission of students to intermediate classes was suspended in September last year until the Ministry reviewed the student admissions to the intermediate grades in all national schools, and announced a new plan.
Under the new setup all the national schools would be required to send in all the details of the vacancies in the intermediate classes and on a weekly basis these vacancies are to be updated so parents could send the applications on behalf of their children.
The national school principals would be given the powers to decide on the student admissions. However, they would be responsible to immediately inform the Ministry if the vacancies were filled in.
Under the new system there would be no systems of appealing to the Education Ministry. The Ministry official said even though there were about 370 National schools, the issue regarding the admissions were present in about 50 National schools in Colombo.