India aiding English-language teaching in Sri Lanka

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...


India aiding English-language teaching in Sri Lanka
Monday April 21 2008 12:32 IST
P.K. Balachandran


COLOMBO: India has begun aiding English-language teaching in Sri Lanka
in a major way to enable young Sri Lankans get jobs in the corporate
sector, especially in the burgeoning services businesses where
English-language skills are a key requirement. The "English as a Life
Skill" programme, started by the Mahinda Rajapaksa government, aims to
train at least 50,000 persons between the ages of 18 and 24 in the use
of the language with assistance from the High Commission of India and
the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad.  The
course will be short-term in order to get quick results. Sri Lanka
hopes to be a BPO centre in the near future, and also attract other
foreign investments which it has denied itself for half a century,
thanks to a short-sighted "no-English" language policy since 1956.

Full story:
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20080421013951&Page=H&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=0

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