by Carmen Wickramagamage It is no exaggeration to say that one of the social groups that has most benefited from the revolutionary education reforms implemented starting 1947 [which most of us know as either Free Education or Kannangara Reforms] is Women. In 1946, when the overall literacy rate for the country was 57.8%, only 43.8% [...]
Archive of entries posted on 1st August 2012
‘Dont let Privatization of Education Destroy the Free Education System’
by Roel Raymond Vivimarie VanderPoorten is an award winning Sri Lankan poet. Her first book Nothing Prepares You won the Gratiaen Prize for the best piece of English literary work in Sri Lanka, in 2007. In 2009 she was recipient of a higher honour; the SAARC Poetry Award, which was followed by the publication of [...]
