The proposal submitted by Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam Attorney at law to recruit graduate teachers to teach foreign languages at government schools has been approved by the Cabinet.
The aim of the proposal is to broaden the opportunity to teach foreign languages in the local education system, enhance schools teaching foreign languages, make effective the use of language laboratories which are already established in schools, provide territory education opportunities for study of languages are some objectives of this purpose.
The knowledge of foreign languages would enhance learning opportunities and strengthen global relationship and having identifying that the education minister submitted the memorandum and after having the approval of the Cabinet on 23-1-2019 to the memorandum submitted by Education Minister the Management Services Department has granted approval to recruit 729 teachers to teach foreign languages in schools.
These teachers will be deployed in national schools where foreign languages are being taught at present and in the future to teach foreign languages in proposed national schools for grade 10 and 11 for advanced level classes.
This will be the first time graduate teachers are being recruited to teach French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Korean languages according to the school syllabus.
