{"id":101013,"date":"2020-04-11T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101013"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:30:44","slug":"schools-to-reopen-on-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/11\/schools-to-reopen-on-may-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to reopen on May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The second term of all government schools will commence on the 11th of May, 2020, stated President\u2019s Media Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, the new school term was to commence on the 20th of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, considering the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the government has decided to postpone the commencement of the second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0daf\u0dd9\u0dc0\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dcf\u0dc3\u0dbd\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dda \u0d86\u0dbb\u0db8\u0dca\u0db7 \u0db8\u0dd0\u0dba\u0dd2 11\u0da7 \u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dba\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvn5cW6LY0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government has prepared to provide facilities for students to continue their education during school hours through distance learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Higher Education has been notified to review the date of commencement of universities with the agreement of the university authorities and the University Grants Commission (UGC) by considering the current situation of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The second term of all government schools will commence on the 11th of May, 2020, stated President\u2019s Media Division. Previously, the new school term was to commence on the 20th of April. However, considering the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the government has decided to postpone the commencement of the second term. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}