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Discussions on holding A/L in November

21 Sep 2021

BY Buddhika Samaraweera The Education Ministry has held several rounds of discussions with Examinations Commissioner General (CG) Sanath Pujitha regarding the holding of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level (A/L) examination. United National Party (UNP) Leader and Parliamentarian Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (21) inquired from Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena regarding reports that the A/L syllabus has not been covered so far. Accordingly, he requested Gunawardena to take steps to find out matters pertaining to it and to conduct the examination. “Several students have stated that the syllabus is not fully covered. I have also met some of them. Therefore, I would like to request you to take steps to look into the matter and hold the exam,” Wickremesinghe said in Parliament. In response, Gunawardena stated that the Education Ministry is currently focusing on holding the A/L examination. He also said that several rounds of discussions have been held with Examinations Commissioner General Pujitha in this regard. In July 2021, the A/L examination was postponed until November 2021, considering the prevalent Covid-19 pandemic situation. Accordingly, the A/L examination, which was scheduled to be held in October 2021, is to be held from 15 November 2021 to 10 December 2021. However, while claiming that the Examinations Department has only received 50% of the applications for the A/L examination which is to be held in November 2021, the teachers’ and principals’ trade unions, which are currently engaged in a series of trade union actions demanding solutions to the teacher-principal salary anomaly issue, have warned that they would not send the remaining applications until their issues are resolved. As of now, the teachers and principals have withdrawn from duties related to sending applications for examinations including the A/L examination, online. In addition, they have also withdrawn from applying for examination-related duties, including those of the A/L examination. Education Ministry Secretary Prof. Kapila Perera and Examinations Commissioner General Pujtha were not available for comment.


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