On instructions given by Education Minister to officials of the ministry to publicize the amount of vacancies to make the steps proper and transparent in admitting students to National School intermediate grades to for the first time in history, 44,568 students were able to enter in to National Schools.
In relevant to this except grade 1,5,6 and 11 amount of vacancies in schools and procedure of admission to intermediate grades in National Schools of whole island were publicized on 03-07-2019 national newspapers and Ministry of Education web site www.moe.gov.lk in Sinhala and Tamil medium, enabling to forward an application to any national school where a vacancy is available.
Accordingly, the Education Minister Mr. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam sates it is an excellent achievement through challanges 25,419 Sinhala medium students and 19,149 Tamil medium students were able to enter to intermediate grades of National Schools around the island.
