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Educational reforms Sri Lanka demands today for a brighter tomorrow Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara Source:Island The 32nd Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara Memorial Lecture titled ‘For a country with a future’: Educational reforms Sri Lanka demands today’ delivered by Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Director, Institute for Research and Development, Sri Lanka and Chairman, National Institute of Fundemental Studies, Hanthana on Oct 13 at the National Institute of Education, Maharagama Continued From Yesterday Defining the Kannangara legacy of free education to the Sri Lankan nation It is an unfair comparison to analyse the central approach of the Kannangara educational reforms apart from the context of socio-economic, political conditions, literacy levels and educational opportunities that existed at the time and to consider these reforms under the current context. The primary strategic approach of the reforms was to increase access to education. At that time, in the 1930’s, over half of school-aged children and around three-quarters ...