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Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
මාධ්ය ඒකකය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන සම්බන්ධීකරණ ලේකම් කාර්යාලය සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික බුද්ධිමය දේපල කාර්යාලය සමග එක්ව, ලෝක බුද්ධිමය දේපල සංවිධානයේ සහ ජපාන පේටන්ට් බලපත්ර කාර්යාලයේ සහයෝගීතාවෙන් සංවිධාන කළ පේටන්ට් බලපත්ර ගොනු කිරිම පිළිබඳ නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන සහ පුහුණු සිව්දින වැඩමුළුව අද දින තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන […]
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
Prof. Chandana Jayalath As a matter of way out of the subdued economic growth, the Sri Lankan government recognizes the need to increase the employability rates of the youth. To that end, the ministries in the subject of skills development, vocational training and youth affairs have been tasked with providing technical and vocational training to […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය උපාධි තත්ත්වය පිරිනැමීම දක්වා වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම ඇතුළුව SLIATE ආයතනයේ අනෙකුත් කටයුතු වලදී ගතානුගතිකව නොසිතන ලෙසත් නූතන ක්රමවේදයකට අනුගත ව අවබෝධයෙන් ඉදිරියට යාමට එක්වන ලෙසත් තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතා SLIATE සිසුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කළේය. දෙහිවල උසස් තාක්ෂණ අධ්යාපන ආයතනයේ කටයුතු පිළිබඳව නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා එම ආයතනයට […]
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Sunday, January 26th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධානවලට අවශ්ය ආකාරයට මෙරට අධ්යාපන ප්රතිසංස්කරණ කිරීමට කිසිසේත් ඉඩ ලබා නොදිය යුතු බව මහාචාර්ය පූජ්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මත්තේගොඩ ප්රදේශයේ පැවති උත්සවයකදී.
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Saturday, January 18th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Minister of Higher Education Bandula Gunawardena has instructed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to set up a committee to provide relief to students who have faced difficulties owing to ragging incidents at universities. Addressing a media briefing at the Department of Government Information this morning (18), the Minister said he has proposed […]
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් බොහෝ දුෂ්කරතා මධ්යයේ සරසවි වරම් ලබාගත් දරුවන් 8 දෙනෙකු පිලිබඳ පුවතක් පොළොන්නරුව – අසේලපුර මහා විද්යාලයෙන් අපට වාර්තා වුණා. ලෝකය කෙතරම් නවීකරණය වුණත් නාගරීකරණයේ ප්රතිලාභයන්ට බොහෝ දුරකින් ඇති, පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්රික්යේ ඉතා දුෂ්කර ගම්මානයක් වන අසේලපුර ගම්මානයට අධ්යාපන, සෞඛ්ය, මංමාවත්, නිවාස, රැකියා අවස්ථා මෙන්ම පානීය ජල පහසුකම් වැනි ජීවිතය හා සම්බන්ධ, වෙන්නොකළ […]
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Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
ප්රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. දැනුම ඒකරාශී කිරීමට ඉදිරියේ දී විද්යාත්මක සමුළුවක් පවත්වා එම තොරතුරු රජයට යොමු කරන බව තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල පැවසීය. අද දින (02) මහා සංඝරත්නයේ සෙත් පිරිත් සජ්ඣායනය මධ්යයේ 2020 නව වසරේ රාජකාරි ආරම්භ කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ ය. මෙහි දී අමාත්යවරයා මෙසේ ද […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Steps will be taken to look into and discuss the issue on the controversial Hathe Ape Potha”, a textbook on sexual and reproductive health for school children, stated Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Speaking at a press conference held in Colombo, he said that any future action on the matter […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
By Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe BSc (Hons), PhD, MIBiol, CBiol Ex-Chairman of NIFNE and former Ambassador to Viet Nam Introduction Post-independent Sri Lanka inherited an archaic system of limited vision and productivity within the fisheries and national aquatic resources exploitation policies of Sri Lanka. While there were support agencies such as the Fisheries Department, the National […]
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Friday, December 27th, 2019
by Shiran Illanperuma Courtesy Xinhua COLOMBO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankans today know China mostly for its economic assistance, but concertmaster and president of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo (CMSC) Lakshman De Saram hopes that a recent recital by a piano virtuoso will help showcase China’s wealth of culture and musical talent. When […]
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Thursday, December 19th, 2019
ප්රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. උසස් අධ්යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ ක්රියාත්මක වන ජාතික විද්යා පදනම වාර්ෂිකව සංවිධානය කරන ජාතික විද්යා පදනම් සම්මාන උළෙල – 2018 පසුගිය දින (18) උසස් අධ්යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන අමාත්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ සහ තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ […]
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Thursday, December 19th, 2019
By Professor R.P. Gunawardane Courtesy The Island There are many shortcomings in the Sri Lankan university system which needs immediate attention. First of all, a proper legal framework should be established in the Sri Lankan university system in order to implement progressive reforms, to avoid political interference and misuse of power and for the smooth […]
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Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Courtesy Gulf News Sri Lankan expat’s second book follows on from ‘Thoughts of a 10-year-old’ Sharjah: Twelve-year-old Sri Lankan author Sanith Santhasa Piyadigamage discussed his second book ‘Tolerance for Happiness’ at Sharjah International Book Fair this week. The Dubai-expat, who is a student of Gems Winchester School, held a workshop with school and university students […]
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
රත්නසිරි අරංගල – ජ්යේෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය, ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්යාලය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සමස්ත අධ්යාපන ක්රමය, එහි පෙර පාසල්, ප්රාථමික, ද්විතීයික සහ තෘතීයික මට්ටම දක්වා, පවතින්නේ බහුවිධ අර්බුදවලට මුහුණ දෙමිනි. මෙම අර්බුදය විසඳීම වෙනුවෙන් මෑත කාලයෙහි ගනු ලැබූ උත්සාහයන්හි හැඳින්විය හැක්කේ අර්ධ සාර්ථක වීම් හෝ සමස්තයක් ලෙස අසාර්ථක වීම් වශයෙනි. මෙම බහුවිධ අර්බුද දිගින් දිගටම පැවතීම එළඹෙන […]
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Thursday, October 31st, 2019
Embassy of Sri Lanka, Bangkok Adding boost to Sri Lanka’s growing potential as an emerging world ICT destination of choice, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Bangkok together with the Department of Commerce of Sri Lanka, organized for the first time, the participation of Sri Lankan IT companies in the ‘Digital Thailand-Big Bang 2019 Exhibition’ […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana In a major boost for Sri Lankan students, the UK has this week launched a new ‘Graduate Immigration Route’ for international students choosing the UK for their higher education. This new scheme allows students pursuing their higher education in UK to stay and work, or to look for work, for two years following […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 16 (newsin.asia): The India – Sri Lanka Foundation (ISLF) invites research and other educational project proposals in the areas of Education, Art & Culture, Archaeological Studies, Agricultural Research, Science & Technology, Information Technology, Health, Development Studies, and Gender Studies. Under the above thrust areas, proposals could be submitted for research projects […]
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The successful launching of the first Sri Lankan-designed satellite ‘Raavana-1’ on June 17, established the capabilities of two young Lankan engineers, Tharindu Dayaratne and Dulani Chamika. Tharindu Dayaratne is an electrical and electronics engineer of the University of Peradeniya and a research engineer at the Arthur C Clarke Institute for […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
තක්ෂක හේමචන්ද්ර ගරු විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යතුමාගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්ය, සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා විසින් 2019 මැයි මසදී ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ ජිනීවාහි සිදුකළ සංචාරය අතරතුර දී, යුරෝපා න්යෂ්ටික පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ (CERN) නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක් වූ අතර, අමාත්යවරයා එහි දී, ශ්රී ලංකාව CERN ආයතනය සමග දැනට ක්රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන සහයෝගීතා වැඩසටහන් පුළුල් කිරීම පිළිබඳ […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
විනිදු දයානන්ද මහතා, මාධ්ය ඒකකය, බදුල්ල මධ්ය මහා විද්යාලය – මෙවර අ.පො.ස සා.පෙළ විභාගයේ (2018) ඌව පළාතේ විශිෂ්ටතම ප්රතිඵල බදුල්ල මධ්ය මහා විද්යාලය හිමිකරගනී.
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
Courtesy People.com https://people.com/movies/paris-brosnan-short-film-combating-childhood-hunger-sri-lanka/ The 18-year-old is making a difference in the lives of local Sri Lankan childrenBy ELIZABETH LEONARD May 28, 2019 11:00 AM Paris Brosnan is doing his part to help raise awareness about childhood hunger in Sri Lanka. A burgeoning filmmaker, the 18-year-old son of Pierce and Keely Shaye Brosnan recently traveled to Sri Lanka to document firsthand how one […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The University Grants Commission (UGC) issuing a press release states that there is no university named ‘Sharia University’ under the jurisdiction of the UGC. The UGC says that no such university has requested permission nor given authority by the UGC to conduct educational courses. The complete media release of the UGC: Attention of […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019
– Kumari Courtesy Ceylon Today The question in the minds of the teaching fraternity and parents of children around the age of ten, island-wide, is: Is it on or is it out? Is the Grade Five Scholarship Examination scrapped or is it going to be held this year too. (At the time of writing 27 […]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය – Ceylon Teachers’ Services UnionSenaka Mahinda Jayasinghe 2019. 03. 28 ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්යතුමණි, ග්රාමීය පාසල් දරුවන්ගේ අධ්යාපනය වෙනුවෙන් කැපවන ගුරු, විදුහල්පති දුෂ්කර දීමනා සම්බන්ධවයි දුෂ්කර ග්රාමීය පාසල් වල සේවයේ නියුතු ගුරුවරුන්ට හා විදුහල්පතිවරුන්ට මේ වන විට මසකට ගෙවනු ලබන රු: 1500 […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019
By Goolbai Gunasekara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Can good teaching in schools outwit the tutor’s hold on students of today? Ravi Nagahawatte’s thoughtful article motivated me to make these observations on WHY tuition is so popular and why so many students (even very bright ones) seem to need this special help. There are many reasons why […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror National List MP Venerable Athuraliye Ratana Thera yesterday urged the government to stop teaching school children from Grades one to five in the English medium. Speaking during the committee stage debate on the budget in Parliament, the Venerable Thera said Sri Lanka is currently following a concept […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Higher Education Minister Rauff Hakeem said yesterday 1,987 students had abandoned their education because of ragging after they were enrolled at state universities. He told Parliament that the government had adopted a zero-tolerance policy whee ragging was concerned, but it was continuing. “We are taking effective action […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Senaka Weeraratna This is a story of a child genius who shone brilliantly at Royal College, Colombo when the school was located at St. Sebastian Hill, Hulftsdorp. A Royal College Magazine of that period devotes 3-4 pages to his invention and heaps praise on him. Bertram Elibank Devepurarathna was the inventor of a mechanism that […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
By Kamanthi Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror It would be a nerve-wrecking experience for a 12-year-old to answer degree-level questions within seconds on a reality TV show. But it was a piece of cake for Nishi Uggalle, now 13, who was adjudged Child Genius 2019 at the recently concluded Channel 4’s Child Genius contest. Born to […]
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Courtesy dutchnews.nl The Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam is starting talks with Sri Lanka and Indonesia about some 1,000 pieces in its collection that may have been stolen and become part of the Dutch ‘colonial heritage’, Trouw reports. The move comes after last week’s decision by the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures (NMWC) to publish guidelines […]
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