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English medium for Govt. schools soon

by Nadira Gunatilleke

The Government will provide facilities to teach subjects in English from year six to year ten in all Government schools.

Arrangements will also be made to have all three streams in the Advanced Level examination in the English medium, Human Resources Development, Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Dr.Karunasena Kodithuwakku said.

He was addressing the centenary celebration of Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya recently.

Minister Kodithuwakku said, that of the 190,000 teachers 23,000 are English teachers. They can teach English but unable to teach any other subject in English. Therefore there is a shortage of teachers who can teach in the English medium. To solve this problem special training will be given to those teachers.

The Minister said that all the fields including the field of education was devastated due to the peoplisation program implemented during the decade of 1950. The 'Sinhala only' policy implemented at the same time affected English education in the country and created the ethnic problem, he said.

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