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| Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
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Education For All (EFA), a program aimed at ensuring every child's access to education and improving the quality of the country's education has been launched by the Education Ministry. Ministry Secretary Dr. Tara de Mel told the media yesterday that the islandwide program will be carried out in keeping with the EFA agreements formulated at the World Education Conference in Thailand to which Sri Lanka reaffirmed its commitment in 2000. The program will focus on the six main EFA goals of improving access to education, universal primary enrolment, early childhood care and development, improving the quality of education and eliminating gender disparities in education. To implement the program, a National Steering Committee on EFA has been established in co-ordination with several Ministries, UNICEF and UNDP with the leadership of the Education Ministry. Among the projects launched by the Ministry to realise the EFA commitments are improving of access and quality in primary education, improving secondary education curriculum, school based management and student assessment and incentives for principals and teachers working in remote areas. "Apart from that, attention will also be paid to provision of education facilities and support for street children, community learning centres for youth and adults, enhancement of education coverage and quality in war-affected areas and development of schools selected at divisional level," Education Ministry consultant A. S. Medagama said. UNICEF Country Director Ted Chaiban said Sri Lanka was one of the first countries to form a detailed plan regarding EFA with budgetary provision for it. "The UNICEF has also launched a program to provide catch-up education for around 41,000 children in the war-affected areas in the North and the East," he said. |
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