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Cabinet approves programme to increase number of national schools to 1,000

08 Dec 2020

The Cabinet of Ministers yesterday (07) approved the proposal made by the Minister of Education Prof G L Pieris to increase the number of National schools in the island to 1,000, covering all District Secretariats. Accordingly, the programme is planned to be implemented in three phases and Minister of education presented a proposal to develop one selected Provincial Council school as a National School in each ofthe 123 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in which there are no National Schools as the first phase. Further, the programme plans to upgrade 673 schools selected on the basis of identified criteria as national schools under the second phase and to further develop the existing 373 National Schools under the third phase. Policy approval had been granted by the Cabinet of Ministers on the 10th of December 2019 to implement an appropriate programme to establish 1000 new National Schools covering all Divisional Secretariats.


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