A/L Technology students can enter local Universities: Education Min.
View(s):Students following the recently-introduced Technology stream for Advanced Level examinations will be enrolled into local universities as well as the Nano Technology University being constructed in Homagama, Education Minister Bandula Gunewardena said.
Minister Gunewardena addressing the foundation-laying ceremony of a technology laboratory at M.D.H. Jayawardena Vidyalaya said that, at present, 244 schools have introduced the Technology stream for Advanced Level students.
“Under the re-designing of 1,000 secondary schools island-wide, 500 will teach the new Technology stream. This is not a political decision, and students who follow will not be led astray, as charged by Opposition politicians,” he said.
Minister Gunewardena said that, within 90 days, a fully-equipped Technology laboratory will be completed.
He said that, by 2016, all Technology laboratories will be completed.
“Technology laboratories are limited in urban schools and the students are already technologically competent. This should be taken to peripheral schools as well. It is unfortunate that a single politician has not visited the 80-year-old Vijayananda Vidyalaya in Vavuniya, and that, Madukanda National School in Vavuniya, has not been able to send a single student to the Science or Engineering Faculties, despite being a national school. It is time to give more prominence to neglected schools,” the Minister added.
He said that there are 72 Divisional Secretariats that do not have a Science laboratory in their schools.
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