The recent article about English as a life skill made interesting reading and hopefully the Ministry of Education will be able to reply and bring about some necessary improvements.
It is strange that India is so willing to give educational advice and financial aid to Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka a willing recipient of education assistance from India, when it should be the other way round. Whilst our education system has many aspects that need changing or updating, it does function and however literacy may be measured Sri Lanka’s achievements are way higher than those in India. As to English standards, only a minority in India have achieved a high level in the language and of these the majority have attended expensive private schools for the middle classses. Standards of English in most government schools are abysmally low or non-existent.
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