Through out the history of Sri Lanka, the decisions related to language education made by responsible decision makers, have pushed the country towards disputes, unrest, distrust among each other, lack of harmony and inefficiency in the competent world aiming towards a global village.  President Rajapakse’s annoucemnt gives us a ray of hope about a potentiality to change a generational mistake. Malathie Kalpana Ambrose    http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.
According to a news item in the Lankadeepa a parent who refused to pay Rs: 6500 as admission fee for Gampola Zahira was beaten up in the school premises by some one who had said ” Because of you the school did not get the money it needed”. Apparently, the school development society had decided to charge Rs: 6500 from each new year-1 student. The parent in question had complained to higher authorities who in turn had instructed the school to charge only the facility fee of Rs: 36. How about admissions fees charged by other schools? Does the minister and ministry endorse admission charges by schools other than Gampola Zahira?
Separating primary schools from larger schools is an impossiblity? Not so, if you move away from the power orbits of the super schools. Behind the scenes, a few dedicated officials are trying to separate primary schools from popular schools in a set of 150 low income education divisions. The goal is develop at least one larger school in each division as a well equipped secondary school that attract children from a cluster of neighboring primary schools. The program is called Isuru and the director of the program is Mr.
Malathie Kalpana Ambrose  Statistically we hold a higher state in education among the South Asian countries. Proudly we declare that our literacy rate is above 92%. But do all our children enjoy their right to education? How about the children in refugee camps in North and East? How about the children in remote areas where they have to walk more than 6km to the nearest school?
Malathie Kalpana Ambrose It is great to see that after ages policy makers are realizing that the existing curricula has not been producing holistic personalities throughout the past. But realizing that fact itself will not be enough, unless the policy proposals bring about a vital change in to curricula development.  The following proposals were taken from the First Draft –National Policy framework on General Education in Sri Lanka prepared by National Committee for Formulating a New Education Act for General Education, 2008. The proposals are for one of the key policy issues identified by the committee.  Curriculum Development Policy Issue І  Curricula developed for schools fail to provide a sound foundation that enables the youth to lead a successful personal and work life.