Joint approach to promote science education

Disna MUDALIGE

The Education Ministry and the Arthur C. Clarke Center in Moratuwa hope to work with a persistent co relation with each other from the next school term onwards to promote science education in the country said, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena.

He was addressing a ceremony to distribute 100 telescopes donated by the Paris Headquarters of the UNESCO to selected schools over the island. He said that, knowledge based strategy is chosen by the President to build a new Sri Lanka with aimed development targets.

"There should be a qualitative improvement in the teaching method. The education system must be capable of making a positive change of attitudes and knowledge in our children. Building human resources armed with wisdom, power and manners is our hope, he said. He also pointed out that even though various equipment were distributed time to time to various schools, there are occasions even the wrapping of these are not removed by some schools.

"These should be properly used for their purpose. The students must be allowed to make the best of them," he said.