STEM Teacher Training for Plantation Schools with Indian grants held

Closing ceremony of the three-month long teacher-training programme in STEM subjects under Indian grant assistance for schools in the plantation regions of Sri Lanka was held at the Environment, Wildlife, Forest Resources, Water Supply, Plantation and Community Infrastructure Ministry on Friday (18).

The event was attended by High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha, Education and Science and Technology Ministry Secretary J. M. Thilaka Jayasundara and senior officials of the Environment, Wildlife, Forest Resources, Water Supply, Plantation and Community Infrastructure Ministry and the Education, Science and Technology Ministry and the National Institute of Education of Sri Lanka.

The programme, designed at the request of the Sri Lankan Government, aimed to impart training in STEM subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Biology) to teachers in plantation schools in the country. It was organised under the multi-sectoral Indian grant assistance of INR 750 million announced last year to mark 200 years of arrival of the Indian-origin Tamil community to Sri Lanka.

Under the programme, 19 Indian teachers specialised in imparting training in STEM subjects arrived in Sri Lanka in July. After attending a structured orientation module organised by the National Institute of Education, the teachers were deployed in schools in the plantation regions to commence the teacher-training programme.

Over the course of the ten-week programme conducted at nearly 40 centres spread across Central, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and Western Provinces, over 2,000 Sri Lankan teachers benefitted from the training imparted by the Indian teacher-trainers.

The Education and Science and Technology Ministry Secretary highlighted that the programme was found to be significantly productive and of very high utility by the trained teachers and the schools, who called for repeating the programme in the near future. She conveyed gratitude to the Indian Government for the initiative. The 19 teacher-trainers from India were felicitated at the occasion.

The India’s High Commissioner said that the successful teacher-training programme is yet another initiative that would contribute to further strengthening the unique people-to-people bonds shared by India and Sri Lanka. He underscored that the programme added to the long list of development partnership initiatives of India in Sri Lanka, guided by the needs of the people of Sri Lanka and the priorities of the Sri Lankan Government, that are bringing a positive impact in the everyday lives of the people of the country across sectors such as education, housing, health, agriculture, livelihood sustenance, hybrid renewable energy projects, ports, railways, solar electrification of religious places, among many others.

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