Category: Education

Was This Image Related to Homosexuality In A Family Setting, added to a Sri Lankan School Textbook? Find out the facts… 

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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Amid new educational reforms, heated debates and misleading social media posts have emerged. Here, we fact-check one such post. Social Media Posts: Several posts went viral, implying homosexuality is being introduced to children in Sri Lanka through a lesson on ‘diverse families’ with illustrations depicting two mothers and a child […]

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This clip of students watching the hardship of their parents is edited!

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Social media is a place where A Facebook page posted this video with a caption, “In Japan, children are being shown videos of their parents so that they don’t waste their parents’ money in school and study hard, we should also do it like this” Source Post | Archive The video depicts various footage of students […]

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IS ASIRI HOSPITAL TEAMING UP WITH ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE MEDICAL STUDIES FOR LOCAL STUDENTS?

Shanaya SeneviratneLeave a Comment on IS ASIRI HOSPITAL TEAMING UP WITH ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE MEDICAL STUDIES FOR LOCAL STUDENTS?

While university/higher education is provided free of charge by the government of Sri Lanka, many private universities also offer paid degree programmes in the country. Medical education has been a bone of contention locally, especially a few years ago when a private university, namely SAITM attempted to set up a private medical faculty in Malabe. […]

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Royal College issued an O/L certificate for Sajith Premadasa in 1984 ?

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Since UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premasada started emerging as a possible presidential candidate over a month ago, questions have been raised over the validity of his educational qualifications. More specifically, several posts were shared on social media, questioning his basic educational qualifications at the local Ordinary Level (O/L) examinations. Even after Sajith Premadasa being declared […]

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