10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Colombo· 23 May 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question 6: Compulsory Teaching of Languages in Schools (Q.222/2024)

Education
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya stated that addressing teacher shortages requires both long-term recruitment and training, noting that producing a qualified teacher takes three to four years. She said online and blended learning could be used as an interim measure while sufficient teachers are trained and deployed.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, that is necessary, but as you know, to produce a teacher takes at least 3 to 4 years. Using technology via online/blended learning, we can mitigate shortages in the interim, until we train and deploy sufficient teachers. We cannot make a teacher in six months; thus we are considering interim modalities while long-term recruitment and training proceed.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Friday, 23 May 2025 ·No. 1750228312097834 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column
not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink
/lk/speeches/23853

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 May 2025. No. 1750228312097834. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23853