The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education
There are two government schools on Eluvaitivu Island, including Sarawanabawa College, which has existed since 1999 but has not been designated as a GCE (Ordinary Level) examination centre. Students sit the examination at St. Anthony’s College, Kayts, because candidate numbers from the school are low and have declined to five in 2024, so they are assigned to the nearest centre.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, the Answer is as follows: (a) (i) There are two government schools on Eluvaitivu Island in the Jaffna District. (ii) There has been a school called Sarawanabawa College on Eluvaitivu Island since 1999. It has not been designated as an examination centre. (iii) The students from the above school sit for the GCE (Ordinary Level) Examination at the examination centre at St. Anthony’s College, Kayts. (iv) The main reason for not declaring this school an examination centre is the low number of candidates. Since 2015, numbers have declined: in 2022 there were 10 applicants, in 2023 eight, and in 2024 five. For such low numbers, we generally assign candidates to the nearest centre in Kayts. (b) Does not arise.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 ·No. 23332 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 December 2025. No. 23332. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19379