Smooth journey on the road to development

Infrastructure development is regarded a key factor of the overall development in a country. Recently, a media team representing all media institutions on the invitation of the Information Department toured the Central Province. During the tour, media persons visited several places in and around the ancient Kandy city to see the development activities and infrastructure development programs in the Province.

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The Morning Inspection - Malinda

Are our children truly blessed?

Child prostitution is a problem. This we have heard many times. Measures have been taken to combat this problem with varying degrees of success. ‘Child prostitution’ has another meaning; children, or rather the terms ‘child’ and ‘children’ are frequently prostituted by all and sundry in political speech, policy document, articulation of vision, school reports, school essays, school debates etc. etc.

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Speech-fronted program to teach English

When I started implementing the plan I had in my mind to teach our students English speech, I thought of introducing a different set of modules/lesson materials. This 'different type' made a difference to the teachers as well: that there is no teacher's guide as in a stereotype program. The modules/materials contain detailed instructions for students as to how to go about an activity and as a result, there is no need to provide teachers a guideline to get the work done.

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