{"id":128326,"date":"2022-09-02T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128326"},"modified":"2022-09-02T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:06:07","slug":"the-yesteryear-request-for-education-reforms-made-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/02\/the-yesteryear-request-for-education-reforms-made-in-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"The yesteryear request for education reforms made in the 80\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha (Sarasota)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I can recall back to when Mr. Wickremesinghe was made the Minister of Education on 14 February 1980; where Mr. Wickremesinghe promised educational reforms. We were then studying for our A\/L\u2019s at STC Mount; and all of us with the O\/L batch sent a communique requesting that O\/L curriculum be made to 6 subjects, allowing students to take part in extra-curricular activities, and the A\/L to 3 subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our communique we requested that O\/L substitute subjects for the following be offered for students, as everyone is not of equal IQ to adapt to a rigid syllabus. Those were, Math to General Accounting, and General Science to Sports Science Techniques and Pre and Post-Harvest Techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual the secretary concerned pushed-forward a proposal which was spiteful to ours, and pushed forward an agenda made to offer schools extended closing and opening hours, with a multi grain biscuit for lunch or at interval time. This eventually brought-in much criticism from parents as it led to restrictions of a real meal to the children at lunch time, as well as on the other hand it was illogical, and also crashing with inter-school events such as rugger and hockey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that Mr. Wickremesinghe is the incumbent President of the Republic, I request for the Educational Reforms to be made as aforementioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha (Sarasota) I can recall back to when Mr. Wickremesinghe was made the Minister of Education on 14 February 1980; where Mr. Wickremesinghe promised educational reforms. We were then studying for our A\/L\u2019s at STC Mount; and all of us with the O\/L batch sent a communique requesting that O\/L curriculum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128326","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=128326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}