Sri Lanka: English as a Life Skill set to increase jobs in IT sector

[Francis Hult]

Daily Mirror

 

English as a Life Skill set to increase jobs in IT sector

 

Over 200,000 students are ballooning into an anti-establishment each year under the public school system, according to Enterprise, Development and Investment Promotion Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama. 

 

The minister's comments came at a Presidential Task Force Initiative "English as a Life Skill", Business forum and exhibition jointly organized by the Presidential Secretariat and the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka last week. 

 

"Only 1,700 students benefit from the budget allocation assigned for higher education after gaining acceptance to local universities," Amunugama said delivering the keynote address at the forum. The disparity between the students arises, according to him, when the youth who could not gain admittance begin to search for jobs. English which has become an essential skill in the private sector and tint the global sphere as a universal language poses as a problem to most children from outstation government schools in the island.

 

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