MaRa Govt. Buffalo Ministers wreaking havoc on children’s education -Same question paper allows 3 hours time for some students and 2 hours for others
Wednesday 29 of August 2012
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2012, 11.00PM) The ‘Drama and acting’ question paper today (28) of the GCE advanced level exam. had also been afflicted by a serious error. The time allowed in the question paper of the Sinhala medium was three hours while that allowed was two hours for the Tamil as well as the English media students sitting the same exam. A grave injustice was therefore committed in respect of some of the candidates .
Though it was admitted that there had been a blunder (as always with two Buffalo Ministers Gona wardena and S .B. Pissa nayake being at the helm of children’s education ) , and most examination centers had allowed the correct three hours time for the English and Tamil medium students to answer the questions , in some other Centers, the students’ time to answer the paper had been restricted to two hours. Consequently , these students had been made victims of a serious injustice perpetrated on them.
Meanwhile , Minister Gona wardena who paid no heed to the continuous warnings held out by the Teachers’ association that the examinations are not being conducted duly and have fallen short of the expected standards to be maintained when such exams are conducted , has written a letter to the IGP stating that there is an internal and international conspiracy to undermine the faith and confidence the public are having in the Education Dept . and education sector , and therefore requesting the IGP to investigate it.
In the letter of Gona wardena addressed to the IGP , it is mentioned , based on the information and various charges mounted by some groups of the Teachers’Association in the recent past, they are aimed at misleading the public and the media.
When Lanka e news inquired about this from Josef Stalin , the secretary of the Teachers’ Association , he scoffed at it and said, , when the lapses and egregious blunders committed by the Examination Dept are pinpointed to the Ministry , making a complaint to the IGP instead of rectifying the outrageous errors and misdeeds is a clear index that the Govt. has no desire to conduct exams duly and maintain the education standards. It is only trying to use police powers to stifle and suppress the exposures, he added. However , they cannot be intimidated or frightened by those threats , Stalin asserted.
Wednesday 29 of August 2012
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2012, 11.00PM) The ‘Drama and acting’ question paper today (28) of the GCE advanced level exam. had also been afflicted by a serious error. The time allowed in the question paper of the Sinhala medium was three hours while that allowed was two hours for the Tamil as well as the English media students sitting the same exam. A grave injustice was therefore committed in respect of some of the candidates .Though it was admitted that there had been a blunder (as always with two Buffalo Ministers Gona wardena and S .B. Pissa nayake being at the helm of children’s education ) , and most examination centers had allowed the correct three hours time for the English and Tamil medium students to answer the questions , in some other Centers, the students’ time to answer the paper had been restricted to two hours. Consequently , these students had been made victims of a serious injustice perpetrated on them.
Meanwhile , Minister Gona wardena who paid no heed to the continuous warnings held out by the Teachers’ association that the examinations are not being conducted duly and have fallen short of the expected standards to be maintained when such exams are conducted , has written a letter to the IGP stating that there is an internal and international conspiracy to undermine the faith and confidence the public are having in the Education Dept . and education sector , and therefore requesting the IGP to investigate it.
In the letter of Gona wardena addressed to the IGP , it is mentioned , based on the information and various charges mounted by some groups of the Teachers’Association in the recent past, they are aimed at misleading the public and the media.
When Lanka e news inquired about this from Josef Stalin , the secretary of the Teachers’ Association , he scoffed at it and said, , when the lapses and egregious blunders committed by the Examination Dept are pinpointed to the Ministry , making a complaint to the IGP instead of rectifying the outrageous errors and misdeeds is a clear index that the Govt. has no desire to conduct exams duly and maintain the education standards. It is only trying to use police powers to stifle and suppress the exposures, he added. However , they cannot be intimidated or frightened by those threats , Stalin asserted.
