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Our education system geared towards failing students than encouraging them to succeed: President

16 Jan 2021

The education system in Sri Lanka has been geared towards failing students rather than encouraging them to succeed, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. The President expressed these views while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of registering the first batch of undergraduate students of Benedict the 16 Catholic Institution of Higher Education (BCI) in Negombo, yesterday. “Historically, our education system has been geared towards failing students and preventing their progress to higher stages of learning, rather than encouraging them to succeed by providing more opportunities for them to learn as they grow older,” he said. He also said the number of students who qualify to enter Sri Lanka’s state universities is comparatively small. “This is not due to the lack of capability of our students or of the secondary schools at which they learn, but more due to resource limitations in the state funded higher education system. Our government has ensured that the state universities enrol more students in the next intake, particularly in the areas of medicine, engineering, IT, science and technological subjects. What is important though is that the graduates of such intakes are easily employable filling a huge void in the employment market,” he said.

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