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

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


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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