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Dilemma in Online Education Exposes Sri Lanka’s Social Inequality

With the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic hit Sri Lanka in March 2020 and schools were promptly closed as everyone feared for the safety of the children. Although they were reopened in between, as of March 2021, Sri Lankan schools are estimated to have been fully closed for 28 weeks and partially closed for 15 weeks according to UNESCO data. This will be further increase as schools have been...

Impact of COVID-19 in the Sri Lanka Education System

The COVID-19 which has been plaguing the world, since last year is also having many repercussions in Sri Lanka as well. Everything has positive and negative sides as if there are two sides to the coin. However, this COVID-19 causes many negative impacts on the Sri Lanka education system. This new normal encourages mainly online learning.

Does closing school’s close lives?

The closure of schools is, of course, damaging to children's education. But schools are not just a place for learning. They are places where kids socialize, develop emotionally and, for some, a refuge from troubled family life” Prof Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health UK, said it most clearly when he told MPs on the Education Select Committee: "When we close schools we close their lives."

Covid-19 & The Future of Education in Developing Countries

For more than one and a half years since March 2020, most of the world has had to accept the closure of schools, colleges and universities as an ongoing facet of this global pandemic.

Online learning to continue beyond pandemic

Although online learning is not a brand new concept to the world and also to Sri Lanka, the ‘new normal’ model of living became a household term with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Around the world, governments and other educational institutions started looking towards online education platforms to provide continuous education to students from kindergarten to the university and above....

Distance Learning for 3,000 Children in Sri Lanka

A-PAD Sri Lanka will support the education needs of 3,000 young students living in rural areas of Sri Lanka affected by COVID-19. The students will be provided with past education materials (last 10 years) focusing on core subjects and supported by teachers via phone or small team classes adhering to COVID-19 prevention protocols.

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