{"id":129808,"date":"2022-11-09T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129808"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:36:59","slug":"regulating-of-intl-schools-will-begin-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/09\/regulating-of-intl-schools-will-begin-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulating of Int\u2019l schools will begin next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Regulating of international schools will begin next year, Minister of Education Susil Premajaynatha told Parliament today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to a question raised by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, the Minister said the Department of Education will only look at the available space in schools, available facilities and other criteria such as education qualifications of teachers. We don\u2019t intend to control any other aspects pertaining to international schools,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International schools also come under the purview of Child Protection Authority and this institution can look into any incidents of child abuse in these schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier the Opposition Leader questioned whether the international schools fall under the purview of the Child Protection Authority.&nbsp;<strong>(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Regulating of international schools will begin next year, Minister of Education Susil Premajaynatha told Parliament today. Responding to a question raised by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, the Minister said the Department of Education will only look at the available space in schools, available facilities and other criteria such as education qualifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129808","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=129808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}