Representatives from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Technology, United States Embassy in Sri Lanka and Microsoft at the MoU signing. Colombo, Sri Lanka – March 20, 2024 – The Ministry of ...

Sri Lanka has promoted equitable access to roughly 3.2 million students, with 52% of them female students, and improved the quality of education by promoting school-based teacher development and the ...

Despite Sri Lanka’s longstanding commitment to free education and its commendable literacy rates, the country’s school education system remains deeply burdened by structural inequities and regional ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya on Friday visited the Sarvodaya Co-Ed Vidyalaya in Rohini, accompanied by Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood. The visit aimed to showcase the capital's ...

In recent years, Sri Lanka’s education system has been tested by COVID-19 school closures and the effects of a profound economic crisis. These challenges were compounded by a wave of retirements among ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Microsoft and the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 14 May 2020 to advance remote pedagogy during a time when the health and ...

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya in Delhi to discuss strengthening ...

Sri Lanka is keen to establish itself as an education hub in Asia, trading on its strategic location, tourism appeal and significant development planned – which includes a US$1.4bn ambitious port city ...

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2017— The World Bank Board of Directors today approved $100 million in financing to support Sri Lanka’s higher education sector. This new initiative will help increase enrollment ...

(A response to Prof. Shamala Kumar’s article, “Public funding of higher education: Seeking private funds to fill the gap?” in The Island of 10 June 2025) Prof. Kumar rightly draws attention to the ...

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” — ...