Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012.pdf
Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012.pdf
Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012.pdf
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Both poor facilities and resource constraints have spurred<br />
a decline in the quality of education. One result has been<br />
limits on the number of students qualifying for technical<br />
education. Only 10 percent of secondary schools have<br />
facilities to teach advanced science streams, 156 and they are<br />
inequitably distributed. Most of the best-equipped schools<br />
to teach the A-Level science stream are in urban areas. A<br />
fifth of schools are in the Colombo District, followed<br />
by 17 percent in Jaffna District. Anuradhapura, Kegalle,<br />
Matale, Ratnapura, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Polonnaruwa,<br />
Mullativu, Badulla, Monaragala, Ampara and Trincomalee<br />
districts are below the national average in the numbers of<br />
these schools (see Figure 4.4).<br />
Figure 4.4: Proportion of Schools with Advanced Science Streams by District (%), 2010<br />
Source: Computations by the report team of the Institute of Policy Studies of <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong> using Ministry of Education 2010b.<br />
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