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Some making a big media show after opening one smart classroom

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Cabinet Spokesman and Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardhana said that some people are getting wide media publicity after initiating one smart classroom which he did not get even after establishing 1,000 Mahindodaya Laboratories. The Minister was speaking at the media briefing to announce Cabinet decisions held yesterday at the Government Information Department.

The Minister said that he is not imitating anyone, but he said that it is better to continue the national programme he initiated.

“I am a former Education Cabinet Minister. In making decisions about the education of children in this country, researches, expert reports, reports of National Education Commissions, were perused. Decisions about changes in education are made accordingly. The new recommendations of national education are implemented by a Cabinet sub-committee, on the recommendations of all the expert committees. Accordingly, the Minister of Education presented the Cabinet paper on the changes in the administration of education.

As the Education Minister, I introduced a new subject stream, the technology stream, with the approval of the Cabinet. For that, we have taken Information Technology, engineering technology, bio-system technology, science-based subject areas for technology to the entire country’s school system. For that, 1,000 Mahindodaya technical laboratories were established covering all DS divisions. A computer lab with 40 computers. A language center where 20 students can speak English, Japanese and French, study and take exams. A separate math lab were included in the 1000 Mahindodaya technological labs created in Sri Lanka with 62 computers per school with four classrooms which are available under the modern technology of distance education.

In the national university system, when we were in the universities, there were faculties such as Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, but there were no Faculties forTechnology. Now there are faculties of technology in universities. There was not even a single professor when technical graduates were admitted to these technical faculties. Now there are many professors and teachers in these faculties of technology. But we did not get much media publicity for this.

Especially the JVP and other extremist forces put up a posters all over the country when I created these 1,000 schools asking us to go home. But especially then President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe as a former Minister of Education helped to implement this technical laboratories programme.

“I decided to provide 100 smart classrooms to the children of Homagama region. Our education region was ranked 11th in the Western Province of Colombo District when I was Minister of Education, the last time. Today, the region has been brought to the fifth place in education in the Western Province. We have worked hard for that. It is better to carry forward the national programme we have done rather than imitating people,” he said.

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