The education ministry has taken steps to give teaching appointments next month to 4286 teacher students enrolled by National Education Colleges for the academic year 2015/2017 based on results released on 1st of August 2019 after successfully completion of three year course.
The education minister Mr. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has instructed officials of ministry to allocate a higher number of appointees to fill the teaching vacancies at National Schools.
The education ministry has obtained reports of Sinhala, Tamil and English teacher requirement/vacancies of all nine provinces to fill these appointments. According to these reports prevailing number of vacancies are 3,748. Having filled these requirement the rest will be directed to provincial schools of provincial councils.
