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Hon. Hesha Withanage Ankumbura Arachchi

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Ratnapura· 10 April 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question 10/2024: National Schools - Lack of Qualified Principals

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Hon. Hesha Withanage Ankumbura Arachchi asked the Prime Minister and Minister of Education to provide the number and names of National Schools in Sri Lanka, and to identify which have principals with the required qualifications and which do not. He further sought details on measures to address the shortage of qualified principals, particularly in light of the increased number of National Schools.

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¶ 01 Question No. 10/2024 to the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education:

¶ 02 National Schools: Lack of Qualified Principals

¶ 03 Will she inform this House the - (a) (i) number of National Schools in Sri Lanka; (ii) names of those schools; (iii) schools out of the schools referred to above, to which principals who have completed specified qualifications have been appointed and of those schools to which such principals have not been appointed, separately; and (iv) measures that will be taken in the circumstances to solve the problem of lack of qualified principals despite the increase in the number of National Schools? (b) If not, why?

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Hansard, Thursday, 10 April 2025 ·No. 1747999742032122 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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