He noted that several measures have been put forth to tackle the situation at hand, especially when it comes to distance education. “Several programmes such as ‘Gurugedara’, ‘E-Thaksalawa’, and ‘Sathi Pasala’ have been introduced at the national and provincial levels to facilitate online education for students, and students can access these free of charge,” he noted. “One of the main national programmes conducted by the Ministry is E-Thaksalawa, which has nearly 65,000 lessons, from grades one through 13. Furthermore, he added that the Ministry of Education has identified 2,096 centres where students do not have the right infrastructure to access the internet. According to him, nearly 30% of the teachers and staff across the island have been vaccinated, thus far.

Source: The Nation July 17, 2021 18:56 UTC