Evolving homegrown English model

The national road map to take communicative English skills across the country, the Presidential initiative - ‘English as a life skill’ was launched in June 2009. The program aims at the dis-empowerment of English as a privilege of the elites to be completed and instead to see the empowerment of a new ideology of English as a life skill. In an interview with the Daily News Coordinator of Presidential Task Force on ‘English as a life skill’ Sunimal Fernando outlines the novel approach taken to promote spoken English skills,

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Some games don’t get thrown, Sidat taught me

The Morning Inspection - Malinda

In June 1981 I threw a game. That’s in chess. This was long before match-fixing and spot-fixing entered sports vocabulary. In chess circles it was called ‘cooking’, i.e. predetermining the outcome of a game. It happened between players, one helping the other to qualify to play at a higher level, secure a ‘board prize’ (in the event of a team championship) or, in recent times, to secure an international rating or a title norm (for International Master or International Grandmaster, for example).

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Capturing sustainable technology benefits

Parallel Perspectives - Phillip Fernando

What is manifestly clear is that modernization is occurring not at a strained profusion rate but as a living force with its own needs and tendencies. That said we are seeing the impressive rate of growth as substantiated by the most current data.

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