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| Thursday, 3 July 2003 |
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by Manjula Fernando The Education Ministry has initiated a full scale inquiry into an alleged incident of fraud involving foreign tours granted to school principals under the World Bank funded General Education Project II. A spokesman for the Education Ministry told the Daily News yesterday that some of the principals sent abroad have been found to be actually teachers and it seems they have forged documents to make it through. On the instructions of the Education Minister Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku the Human Resource Development Board of the Ministry is now inquiring into the matter. "If a fraud is established the concerned party will have to reimburse the costs of their entire tour," the spokesman said. "Several teams are yet to return from their three week study tour and we are awaiting their return to proceed with the inquiry." Over 450 Principals from national and provincial schools were sent on study tours to Malaysia, Thailand, Israel and Canada under the GEP II project funded by the World Bank. Provincial Education authorities have made the selections from schools under their purview. The project aimed at improving school management skills and professional development of principals' has spent Rs. 494,000 on each person to Canada, Rs. 296,000 on each person to Thailand/Malaysia and Rs.327,000 on those off to Israel to cover their air tickets, food, accommodation and a daily allowance. |
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