{"id":135559,"date":"2023-07-11T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135559"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:18:55","slug":"new-university-to-produce-only-teachers-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/11\/new-university-to-produce-only-teachers-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"New university to produce only teachers: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Teachers will not be recruited for a three-year teaching diploma course at National Colleges of Education (NIE) in the future, but they will be assigned to a university established to produce teachers for a four-year degree, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While participating in a programme to educate the principals on the development of education quality in the North-Western Province today (11) at the Sudesha Theater in Chillaw, he said all the 19 NIEs in existence now will be converted into a teacher training university and related faculties in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said these NIEs will be kept under the purview of the Education Ministry with the approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No permission will be given to form trade unions because these universities will only accept teachers who pass out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister emphasized that it is the basic requirement to produce a disciplined group from this university, and a graduate teacher will be produced from this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Teachers will not be recruited for a three-year teaching diploma course at National Colleges of Education (NIE) in the future, but they will be assigned to a university established to produce teachers for a four-year degree, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. While participating in a programme to educate the principals on [&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-135559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135559","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=135559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}