{"id":94537,"date":"2019-10-30T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T01:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94537"},"modified":"2019-10-30T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T01:04:55","slug":"will-convert-exam-centric-education-system-into-a-student-centric-system-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/30\/will-convert-exam-centric-education-system-into-a-student-centric-system-gotabaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Will convert exam-centric education system into a student-centric system &#8211; Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The student-centric education system will be reintroduced instead of the current examination-centric system, says Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Defense Secretary expressed these views addressing a public meeting in Ruwanwella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current generation of youth has not developed a skill that is competent as a result of the long-term education system that is exam-centric, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa pointed out that information technology and digital technology is a great opportunity for the country to develop as well as the youth of Sri Lanka to get a good job and earn a decent income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to train young people on short term courses for employment in such fields as a solution to the employment issue, and cultivate children to be skilled from their infancy under a student-centric education system as training for the future, he pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The student-centric education system will be reintroduced instead of the current examination-centric system, says Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The former Defense Secretary expressed these views addressing a public meeting in Ruwanwella. The current generation of youth has not developed a skill that is competent as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotabaya-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94537","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=94537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}