{"id":85816,"date":"2019-02-23T17:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85816"},"modified":"2019-02-23T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:21:51","slug":"finnish-education-system-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/23\/finnish-education-system-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish education system for Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>KALANA KRISHANTHA\u00a0Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The education system of the Scandinavian country, Finland, currently considered as the world\u2019s best education system, will be introduced to Sri Lanka through the newly initiated \u2019compulsory 13-year education for all students\u2019 programme, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today (21).<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-content-holder\">\n<p>While participating in the launching ceremony of the programme, at Temple Trees, he added that the Government of Finland is also supporting the programme.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam for initiating this programme after coordinating with the Government of Finland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that it would be applied to 800 Government schools in the beginning as a pilot project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-main-img\" src=\"https:\/\/site-api.ceylontoday.lk\/uploads\/NewsHeader\/5c6eb19a2d191_rrr.jpg\" width=\"631\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Sri Lanka, more than half of the students drop out from the Ordinary Level exams, the 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0year of their education, however, in countries like Japan, India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, they have 13 years of compulsory education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier emphasized that education should generate academics, scientists, researchers as well as technicians, artists and sportsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Skills of the various people are diverse. Education should give shelter for all. Some are good in academics, while others in music, drama and sports. In Sri Lanka, there are 300,000 job opportunities for technicians, but we only have 100,000 technicians, while 200,000 opportunities remain vacant. Everyone should not try to go to universities, and in the new education system we will try to provide opportunities for students to select the career path of their choice within the school system and follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Wickremesinghe, the new system will be an employment oriented one.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient Sri Lanka, our treasure was paddy, cinnamon and various agricultural products. But, currently, our treasure is human resources. If you empower the children through education, the country will have a better future,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KALANA KRISHANTHA\u00a0Courtesy Ceylon Today The education system of the Scandinavian country, Finland, currently considered as the world\u2019s best education system, will be introduced to Sri Lanka through the newly initiated \u2019compulsory 13-year education for all students\u2019 programme, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today (21). While participating in the launching ceremony of the programme, at Temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816","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=85816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}