Education Sri Lanka

Administration of the system

Primary college to better training are often funded and overseen through 3 governmental ministries.

• Ministry of Education: for faculties, pirivenas (faculties for Buddhist priests), instructors education faculties and faculties of training
• Department of Examinations: National exam service
• Ministry of Higher Education: for universities
• Ministry of Education Services: for offering the bodily centers required for preferred training
• Ministry of Skills Development and Vocational Training: for vocational training and technical faculties

Exceptions to this device exist   more often than not in terms of tertiary with numerous public universities and institutes coming beneathneath the purview of various ministries. These divisions have brought about a excessive diploma of mismanagement and inefficiency over the years.

History

Education in Sri Lanka has a records of over 2300 years. It is assumed that the Sanskrit language changed into introduced to the island from North India due to the status quo of the Buddhism withinside the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa from the Buddhist clergymen despatched through Emperor Asoka of India. Since then an training device advanced primarily based totally across the Buddhist temples and pirivenas (monastic colleges), the latter basically meant for clergy (even to this day) and better training. Evidence of this device is located at the Mahawamsa and Dipavamsa, the Chronicle of Lanka that offers with the records of the island from the advent of Prince Vijaya and his fans withinside the sixth century BC.

With the outset of the colonial enlargement at the island, first withinside the coastal provinces after which interior, Christian missionary societies turn out to be lively in training. The Anglican Church's monopoly of Government Schools and in training ended following the Colebrooke Commission installation through the British administration.

The National Institute of Education (NIE), Sri Lanka, primarily based totally in Maharagama, changed into mounted in 1986 below the provisions of the National Institute of Education Act No. 28 of 1985. The purpose of the institute is to "offer management for the improvement of preferred training with quality, fairness and relevance in a pluralistic society".

Primary and secondary colleges

A widespread device of colonial colleges had been all started via way of means of the British primarily based totally at the suggestions of the Colebrooke Commission in 1836. This is seemed as the start of the authorities's education device withinside the island. It commenced with the established order of the Royal College in Colombo (previously the Colombo Academy) and result in the formation of numerous unmarried intercourse colleges built at some stage in the colonial period, via way of means of the British. Some of those colleges had been affiliated to the Anglican Church. These protected S.Thomas' College Mount Lavinia and Trinity College Kandy. The training in vernacular colleges became in large part loose because of authorities offers to cowl the value of coaching and nearby philanthropists presenting the buildings, gadget and the books. Colebrooke decreed that each one authorities colleges be discontinued. The order did now no longer observe to denominational Missionary colleges and that they persevered to feature unceasingly. 

In 1938 the training device in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) became made officially loose following the granting of usual franchise in 1931. The Minister of Education, past due Hon. Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara, and the Executive Committee of Education which protected individuals inclusive of H. W. Amarasuriya took the initiative in setting up loose training. Under this initiative the authorities mounted Madhya Maha Vidyalayas (MMV, Central Colleges) that had been scattered across the island to offer training to all. The medium became both Sinhala or Tamil.

In 1942 a unique committee became appointed to look at the training device and, the various guidelines that observed, the subsequent play an critical role:

i. Make to be had to all kids an excellent training freed from charge, in order that training ceases to be a commodity attainable simplest via way of means of the city affluent.

ii. Make countrywide languages the media of practise in region of English in order that possibilities for better training, beneficial employment open simplest to small wide variety of the city affluent, could become        to be had to others as well.

iii. Rationalize the college device in order that instructional provision is good enough, green and economical.

iv. Ensure that each toddler is supplied with practise withinside the faith of his/her parents.

v. Protect instructors from exploitation via way of means of managers of colleges.

vi. Make good enough provision for grownup training.

After independence, the wide variety of colleges and the literacy price drastically increased. According to the Ministry of Statistics, nowadays there are about 10,012 public colleges serving near 4,037,157 college students, everywhere in the island.

During the colonial times, past due countrywide heroes like Anagarika Dharmapala with foreigners like Colonel Henry Steel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky of the Buddhist Theosophical Society mounted Buddhist colleges to foster Sinhala college students with an English training wealthy in Buddhist values and to carry Buddhism to lifestyles, at a time while it became slowly fading away. Most of those colleges had been mounted withinside the capitals of the important provinces of Sri Lanka. The first of those had been Ananda College, Colombo (previously English Buddhist School); Dharmaraja College, Kandy (previously Kandy Buddhist High School); Mahinda College, Galle (previously Galle Buddhist Theosophical Society School); Musaeus College, Colombo and Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala (previously Kurunegala Buddhist Institution) which had been observed many years later via way of means of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo (previously Buddhist Girls College), Nalanda Maha Vidyalaya Colombo and Mahamaya Vidyalaya, Kandy.

Sri Lanka additionally has many Catholic colleges inclusive of St. Joseph's College, St Bridget's Convent, St Peter's College, St. Anthony's College, Kandy and the Joseph Vaz College named after the Sri Lankan saint Joseph Vaz. The earliest colleges inclusive of Richmond College, Galle, Jaffna Central College, Wesley College, Colombo, Kingswood College, Kandy(previously Boys' High School, Kandy); Girls' High School, Kandy and Methodist College, Colombo had been commenced via way of means of the Methodist Church. Many colleges had been constructed withinside the post-colonial generation. However, the mounted colleges who had their origins withinside the colonial generation dominate social lifestyles in Sri Lanka particularly due networks of vintage boys and vintage girls.

Several superficial changers to the college device befell withinside the post-independence generation. These encompass the extrade of the number one medium of training to the countrywide languages, nationalization of personal colleges and the creation of countrywide/provisional college device.

There are 749 Muslim colleges in Sri Lanka, 205 madrasas which educate Islamic training, and an Islamic college in Beruwala (Jamiya Naleemiya). Zahira College, Colombo is taken into consideration to be one of the oldest and the maximum outstanding Muslim college withinside the usa initiated via way of means of M. C. Siddi Lebbe, even as Al Iman Schools in Colombo became the primary Islamic to educate an incorporated Islamic curriculum considering the fact that 2008.

University

Higher training in Sri Lanka has been primarily based totally on the numerous outstanding pirivenas at some stage in the pre colonial times. The origins of the cutting-edge colonial college device in Sri Lanka dates lower back to 1921 while a University College, the Ceylon University College became mounted at the previous premises of Royal College Colombo affiliated to the University of London. However, the start of cutting-edge better training in colonial authorities of Ceylon became in 1870 while the Ceylon Medical School became mounted observed via way of means of Colombo Law College (1875), School of Agriculture (1884) and the Government Technical College (1893).Sri Jayewardenepura University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Building

The University of Ceylon became mounted on 1 July 1942 via way of means of the Ceylon University Ordinance No. 20 of 1942 which became to be unitary, residential and autonomous. The college became in Colombo. Several years later a 2d campus became constructed in Peradeniya. The University of Ceylon have become the University of Sri Lanka comply with withinside the University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972 ensuing in a extra centralized management and extra direct authorities manipulate. This gave manner for advent of separate universities after the Universities Act No. sixteen of 1978. Even aleven though new universities of unbiased identities had been created, the authorities maintained its direct manipulate and centralized management aleven though the University Grants Commission. Late Hon. Lalith Athulathmudali as Minister of Education advanced an initiative to increase the better training of the usa withinside the 1980s, the Mahapola Fund, mounted via way of means of him furnished scholarship and much-wanted founding to better training group to this day. Until amendments to the University Act had been made in 1999 simplest nation universities had been allowed to provide undergraduate degrees; this has considering the fact that changed.

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