Category: Education

Hindi Chair established at Sabaragamuwa campus   High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay undertook his first visit to Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (SUSL), Belihuloya on Wednesday (11). During the visit, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. R.M.U.S.K. Rathnayake for the establishment of ICCR Chair of Hindi […]

Sri Lanka crisis: Parents forced to pick which child can go to school   Ten-year-old Malki is too excited to stay in bed. She’s up an hour before her two sisters and two brothers so that she can scrape some bright red gloss off her fingernails. Today is her first day back at school and […]

25 SL university students to join BRI seminar   Twenty five students from five Sri Lankan universities are to join a dynamic Belt & Road Initiative Seminar from Dec. 27 – 29 at the Galle Face Hotel. According to the Chinese embassy in Colombo, these students have been shortlisted from hundreds of applications from 05 […]

School holidays begin   All government and government-approved private schools will be closed from today (22 Dec). According to the statement the first phase of the third term ends today while the 2nd phase commences on Jan. 02, 2023.  

China School Uniform Donation; Scheduled to arrive on Jan. 6th   The Chinese Embassy in Colombo said in a tweet that China is going to donate 5 billion rupees (RMB 90 million) of school uniforms to cover 70% of the school uniform needs of Sri Lankan students. It further states that everything is ready to […]

Enrollment for Grade one, A/L only done by schools: Ministry   The Education Ministry announced today that the admission of children to grade one is done only by the respective schools and not through the Ministry. When applying for A/L studies based on the 2022 Ordinary Level (OL) results, students from schools without an Advanced […]

Peradeniya’s former VC was beaten by university students!   The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, Professor Atula Senaratne and his son were attacked by a group of students of the same university yesterday (10) at around 10 pm. It is said that more than 300 people came to the official house in the […]

Govt. schools closed today   The Ministry of Education has announced that all government schools will be closed tomorrow (09) owing to the prevailing weather conditions in the country.  

University entrance cutoff marks released   University entrance cut-off marks for the candidates of 2021 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination has been released. The cut-off marks can be accessed from the official website of the UGC – ———– (Previous News :  11:19   am  Dec. 02, 2022) Uni. entrance cut-off marks to be released today The cut-off marks […]

3rd school term to be held in 3 phases   The Ministry of Education says December 02 (Friday) will be a holiday for all government and government-approved private schools in the country after the second term of schools drew to an end today (01). The third term is scheduled to commence next Monday (Dec. 05). […]