Sri Lanka achieves 98% literacy rate

[Skyline]

Sri Lanka’s adult literacy rate 98 percent

The benefits of education should flow to the entire population and the government has allocated Rs 306 billion for the education sector for 2013, Education Deputy Minister Vijith Vijayamuni Zoysa said in Parliament yesterday.

The deputy minister was speaking at the Budget 2013 committee stage debate under the Heads of the Education Ministry .

He further said that adult literacy rate of Sri Lanka was 98 percent while the computer literacy rate was 38 percent.

‘We have given priority for information and communication technology as a powerful instrument for development of education ,’ he said. With the implementation of islandwide programmes to increase information technology and communication, the skills of students in rural schools too are expected to develop.

We are providing facilities to watch ‘Nenasa’ TV programmes to enhance the performance in Mathematics, English and Sinhala of school children. Computers and learning software have been provided to students as an educational tool.

About 1,463 students in 17 schools have already been provided with computers under the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

Sri Lanka’s adult literacy rate 98 percent

 

[Avisheik]

Damn, that is a really good achievement. Even some developed countries dont have 98% literacy rate

 

[Edevelop]

I wish Pakistan can learn from Sri Lanka.

 

[A.Rafay]

I wish Pakistan can learn from Sri Lanka.

Somebody already learned the laptop project !!

 

[Cherokee]

Great Work . Sri-Lanka is Leading the Subcontinent in HDI levels .

 

[sachin786]

Great Work SL. Your journey & progress is impressive indeed.

Its nice to have few sane neighbours arounds.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Congratulations...............

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

That's a big achievement..congratulations srilanka..

 

[KRAIT]

Congrats to Sri Lanka.

 

[Che Guevara]

I doubt its true since 7.5% of sri lankan are hindu that is tamil which is still struggling for basic need how can it be 98%...Not possible

 

[karan21]

COngrats Lankans.

 

[Skyline]

I doubt its true since 7.5% of sri lankan are hindu that is tamil which is still struggling for basic need how can it be 98%...Not possible

^^ Jaffna is among top educational ranks in SL.

Colombo Z-score ranks - http://www.ugc.ac.lk/en/university-...cores.html?id=96&view=cutoff&district=COLOMBO
Jaffna Z-score ranks - http://www.ugc.ac.lk/en/university-...scores.html?id=96&view=cutoff&district=JAFFNA

If you have a kid under 14 you have to send them to school, otherwise their parents need to responsible for that! Can file a case against those parents in court in here by GoSL.

btw, your stats are wrong hindu percentage is around 11%, all of them aren't facing exams in one single medium either!

 

[1ndy]

I doubt its true since 7.5% of sri lankan are hindu that is tamil which is still struggling for basic need how can it be 98%...Not possible

92.5% is still a big achievement. Congrats to SLakans.

 

[Che Guevara]

^^ Jaffna is among top educational ranks in SL.

If you have a kid under 14 you have to send them to school, otherwise their parents need to responsible for that! Can file a case against those parents in court in here by GoSL.

btw, your stats are wrong hindu percentage is around 11%, all of them aren't facing exams in one single medium either!

Even house for then are built by Indian government.This is fake PR ads which country like you do.Your government is not doing anything for tamils, its other country government who are responsible for poor tamil rehabilitation.

 

[Skyline]

92.5% is still a big achievement. Congrats to SLakans.

we achieved that many years ago, last time when I checked it was 96%, more recently it is actually 97.3%.