Prime Minister to tame the ‘bugs’ in Education

(March 30, 2016, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Useless unproductive officials should be removed and replaced with more efficient people drawn from the public service, private sector, Armed Forces, Police or any other service, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

“A major leap should be ensured in the country’s education sector by deploying efficient hands. Let us all dedicate ourselves to perform this task. A new system of education will be introduced before May this year after discussions with Provincial Councils and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education,” he said.

The Prime Minister was speaking at the opening of Royal MAS Arena – Sri Lanka’s first sporting arena for schools on Monday. “Many people will naturally oppose this as there are people who are against an educational revolution.

We will go forward with the new education system regardless of such meaningless opposition,” he said.