The Government is on the brink of launching a comprehensive education reform initiative in 2026 aimed at overhauling the ...

As the number of dengue patients increases, recent data by health officials has shown that schoolchildren are among the most ...

Unlike many global powers that take pride in their modern accomplishments, Sri Lanka stands unique in its possession of a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Catholic officials and parents in Sri Lanka are hopeful that church-run schools will begin to reopen soon for the first time since last month's devastating Easter ...

BOHITIYAWA, Sri Lanka — Getting online school lessons for residents of a remote Sri Lankan village requires a trek through dense bushes sometimes visited by leopards and elephants. The teachers ...

Maheshi Kulasekara of Mahamaya College, Kandy, will captain the Sri Lanka Schools Netball team at the Waverley International Schools Netball Tournament, which will be held in Melbourne, Australia, ...

There are currently about 40 schools run by Sri Lanka's Catholic Church, which owned hundreds of schools by the time the Buddhist-majority island gained independence from Britain in 1948.

Sri Lanka extends closure of schools. Lack of fuel to get teachers, students to classrooms cited as economy struggles. July 4, 2022 at 4:32 a.m. by BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI The Associated Press ...

By Lynn Ockersz. Immense learning loss among the young, the likelihood of increasing school dropouts, the interruption of the school feeding programme and rising mental stress and confusion among ...

By Wimal Nanayakkara Although Sri Lanka has provided universal free education since 1939, around one-fifth of poor children drop out of school after the age of 14 years and another-two thirds after ...