Strengthen the education for the secondary level student in Batticaloa West Zone.

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RECOMMENDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

Project Overview

Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.

Education in Sri Lanka falls under the control of both the Central Government and the Provincial Councils, with some responsibilities lying with the Central Government and the Provincial Council having autonomy for others. Sri Lanka's population has a literacy rate of 92%, higher than that expected for a third world country and it has the highest literacy rate in South Asia and overall, one of the highest literacy rates in Asia

Figure-01 Achievement of O/L in Batticaloa

Based on the above chart and bellow table the number of passed students from both A/L and O/L is less than 50% in total in the Batticaloa West Zone as well the bellow table show that the large number of dropout students are instigated from the same Zonal Education. So among all other zones the Batticaloa West is having very low progress. That wise we selected this zone first to empower the students’ performance through implement some strategies as we suggested.

 Figure-02 Achievement of O/A in Batticaloa

Challenges

·         Lack of strengthen Old Students Association (OSA) and not to form this association particularly in the rural areas schools

·         Shortage of teaching aides and materials has hampered teaching and learning activities in most of the schools.

·         Shortage of quality teacher for English, Mathematics and Science

·         Highest number of dropout

·         Lack of special assistance to improve the student participation rate: Some of the activities carried out to improve student participation rate is unable to take root due to some of the children coming from economically backward families. Such families require special assistance to continue to stay in the system.

·         Shortage of transport facilities: Many Villages have no vehicles. This has hampered continuing education in schools.

·         Lack of awareness in available vocational training institutions

Objective of the Project

·         Improving the quality of primary and secondary education through using A/L passed students to teach the rural students

·         Form new OSA in selected schools and strengthen the available associations with collaboration of volunteer experts.

·         Mobilize the A/L passed students to empower volunteerism, exchange experiences and skills among other students

Expected Result

·         Increase the number of A/L passed students and reduce the number of dropout students

·         Strengthen the existing OSAs and form new OSAs

·         Mobilizing the recently A/L passed students and empower the volunteerism to strengthen backward school students

·         Form a working group with sectoral experts to work out to achieve the common goal

Beneficiaries

Manmunai West Zonal school A/L students