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Political Manifestos (Latest only):  Anura Kumara Dissanayake , Dilith Jayaweera, Ranil Wickremesinghe (p. 32-33), Sajith Premadasa     2024 Presidential Election Sri Lanka

National Policy Documents

National Education Policy Framework (NEPF, 2023-2033) was published in September 2024 under the authorship of the Cabinet Committee to formulate and present the same to the Parliament. This document is expected to build 0n but supersede the NEPF 2020-2030 published by the National Education Commission of Sri Lanka. Compilation of public comments on the NEPF 2023-2033.

Reimagining Education in Sri Lanka, A Summary Report or Vistas of Prosperity (2020), Presidential Taskforce on Sri Lanka’s Education Affairs appointed by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksha.

General Education Reforms (1997). By the Presidential Taskforce on General Education in Sri Lanka appointed by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge.

White Paper 1981,  Sinhala, English). Education Proposals for Reform. Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Employment with Hon Ranil Wickremesinghe as Minister for Education).

Report of the Special Committee on Education (1943). Ceylon State Council Sessional Papers XXIV. Colombo: Ceylon Government Press. With Mr. CWW Kannangara as the chairman of the committee

Covid Impact Surveys

• LIRNEasia (2021). Access to Services During Covid-19 in Digital India
• LIRNEasia (2021). Access to services during Covid-19 in Digital Sri Lanka
• UNICEF South Asia (2021). Sri Lanka National Survey on Learning Continuity in Primary

General

• Ministry of Education (2020 Nov). National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education in Sri Lanka
• Ministry of Education (2017). A Strategic Plan for the Department of Examination For implementation in 2018-2019 Prepared by Committee of Experts for Reforming the Department of Examination
• WEF (2020). Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• UNESCO (2019). Assessment of transversal competencies: Current tools in the Asian region.
• UNESCO (2015). Revisiting Learning:  Assessing the influence of the 1996  Delors Report.
• UNESCO (2015). Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good
• Ministry Of Youth Affairs and Skills Development (2014). Youth & Development: Realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Sri Lankan Youth
• World Bank ( 2005). Treasures of the Education System in Sri Lanka
• UNESCO (1999). ‘Education for All’ Assessment: Sri Lanka; the country status report
• UNESCO (1996). Learning: The treasure within (1996), the Delors Report,
• UNESCO (1972). Learning to Be: The world of education today and tomorrow (1972), the Faure Report.

Universities

• Weerakone, S (2016). දශක හතරක අත්දැකීම් වලින් බිඳක්. Institutional and cultural corruption within public universities. Proceedings of the Special Session on Present Status and the Way Forward for Public Universities in Sri Lanka. Ed. Weerakone, S and Perera, S.M., International Industrial Mathematics Conference, Rattanapitiya, Sri Lanka (p.). Colombo: Vidya Publishers.
• Weeramunda, AJ (2008). Socio political impact of student violence and indiscipline in universities and tertiary education institutes. Study Series No. 5. NEC: Colombo
• Gamage, SN (2016). Accountability and Openness Keys to higher education reforms in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Special Session on Present Status and the Way Forward for Public Universities in Sri Lanka.
• World bank (2009). Towers of Learning. Peril and promise of higher education in Sri Lanka
• University Grants Commission (2003). Corporate Plan 2003-2008
• Faculty Quality Report 2004/5 For Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Public University System of Sri Lanka (2006, March)
• Quality through Global Connectedness: Benchmarks and Strategies for Universities in Small Developing Countries, Technical Report of the Project funded by the Research on Knowledge Systems (RoKS) Program at the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada (2006, February)
• Universities as Knowledge Institutions in Linking Knowledge to Innovation in the Economy and Society: The Role of Universities in Asia. Proceedings of the seminar on K4D, Colombo, Sri Lanka. January 25, 2007, pages 4-17 (See K2I_Report_Jan2007)