Sri Lanka, July 26 -- The education of the plantation based school children and any such marginalised segment need affirmative approaches as part of the short-term goal. It is missing in the proposed education reforms, Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader Mano Ganesan said today.
"National integration and an affirmative approach towards the children of the plantation schools are the two prime missing points in the proposed reforms.
"The all-important principle that 'education shall be the vital tool for building national integration' (SriLankanism here) is not recognised in the proposed curriculum and structural changes. There are no intermediary short-term goals, recognising the fact that the ground is not even,' MP Mano Ganesan said...