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President pleased with education reforms

The Presidential Secretariat in a press communique on April 15, announced President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's delight over the inclusion of many of the educational reforms initiated by her, in the present Government's 100 day program.

Provision of financial aid to poor children up to Grade 9, in conjunction with the Asian Development Bank, provision for the students of 91 selected schools from 1AB group in all the Educational Zones to use their option to sit the GCE Advanced Level Examination in English, the "Navodaya" school renaissance program by which a few schools in each Divisional Secretarial Division were to be provided with necessary facilities to upgrade them to the level of popular urban schools, and rehabilitation of Central Colleges are among the measures which her Government initiated and now included in the present Government's 100 day program.

The Communique further states that under the previous regime, plans were under way to introduce Information Technology as a separate subject in the GCE Advanced Level syllabus in 2001 and to be implemented in 2002 and to utilize World Bank aid to establish 80 IT Centres in 8 to 10 selected schools in every province.

The communique adds that arrangements had been made with aid from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to establish 4000 IT Centres covering all the Districts, by the year 2004 and that the Presidential Secretariat is pleased to see that the present Government is pursuing these educational reforms in the same way as they were planned and forged ahead in 1994.

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