Our Schools are in a mess.
However a plan to hoodwink people into believing funds have been allocated
under the above schools program is another step in this campaign of
disinformation, not just misinformation. If one reads what it is all about it
is about more toilets, water facilities and protecting the security of the
school from fences. After all the Rs500,000 MAX allocated to that is hardly a
drop in the bucket, and is CERTAINLY NOT going to make a school good enough so
that the current rush to put children into prestigious schools will abate.
Funds are not just needed to
build toilets in schools as this Rs3B funding suggests. It should be more like
Rs300B over 5 years into state education so we change the direction completely
from wasting money on spurious defense, that is defending Sri Lanka from its
citizens, as we do not face an external threat. We must use the funds to
improve education as the products of a good education, will show an immediate
productivity gain in the work place, which no Hambantota Harbour of Airport
will ever be able to show!
It is with intention that we must
direct our resources where it is needed. Firstly to put at least Rs10B
additionally this year to train the teachers. There is no point even thinking
about education unless we use the latest techniques of training, and with
distance learning and training techniques available it is a matter of using the
latest technology to cost effectively spend this money in as short a time as
possible to maximize on the resources available to produce the highest reward.
I am at a loss as to why the
distance learning techniques are not more widely used in Sri Lanka schools. It
is possibly still due to the old fashioned by rote education which we don’t
seem to be able to get rid of from our psyche.
To benefit more fully from the
resources distance education that many countries and organizations are now
engaged in, English is a link language that is essential. I therefore would put
emphasis, including financial incentives to train teachers in this area, use
English as the language in which these techniques are usually made available,
and use it to train the techers.
Once teachers are trained it is
relatively easy to train the pupils. The teachers will go through this through their
teaching lives, and so will be able to impart this knowledge from one group to the
next. Let us get cracking without wasting time!!
1 comment:
do you want the entire nation to migrate out to the developed world? solve the migration problem along with the education problem, else you're just using SL funds to provide aid to Western nations, as you've pointed out in another blog post. what's the plan???
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