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National Colleges Teacher Trainee Interviews Set to Begin April 21
by Staff Writer 13-04-2026 | 1:36 PM COLOMBO (News 1st): The Ministry of Education has announced that interviews for the recruitment of teacher trainees to National Colleges of Education (Vidya ...
National Policy - dmc.gov.lk
Introduction to Disaster Management Policy Sri Lanka is affected by different types of natural hazards. They include Floods, Landslides, Cyclones, Droughts, Rock Falls, Land Subsidence, Earth Tremours, Storm Surges, Coastal Floods, Coastal Erosion, Salinisation, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation, Salinity Intrusion in to Drinking Water Sources, Forest Fire, High Winds, Tornadoes etc., More localised hazards such as lightning strike, epidemic and hazards related to environmental pollution are also prevalent. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 has also highlighted the vulnerability of Sri Lanka to such irregular and occasional high-impact events. Occasional non-destructive and destructive earthquakes have also been recorded over the past 400 years in various parts of the Island. Frequency of occurrence of natural disasters is in an increasing trend, which may be attributed mainly to unplanned development, environmental degradation, human intervention and climatic changes. It is an accepted fact that human intervention can increase the frequency and severity of natural hazards and that human intervention can cause natural hazards where none existed before. This shows that even if people can do little or nothing to change the incidence of intensity of most natural phenomena, they have an important role to play to ensure that natural events are not converted in to disasters by their own actions. Some such human actions are undue land filling, deforestation, indiscriminate coral, sand and gem mining. With increasing population combined with scarcity of lands which are not exposed to natural hazards, there is a strong tendency for people to occupy such lands which have a greater exposure to hazards. Unplanned development activities in such situations increase the vulnerability leading to greater overall risks. Due to this reason, it is mostly the urban and rural poor who are at risk to disasters as it is the poor who occupy such vulnerable lands. Optimising development and maintaining its sustainability will only be possible by safeguarding the environment, which in turn will help arrest triggering of hazards. This emphasises the fact that development, environment and disaster management are very closely linked. In addition to natural hazards, the country is exposed to various human induced hazards such as industrial hazards, major industrial and occupational accidents, air and maritime hazards, urban fire, epidemics, explosions, air raids, civil or internal ...
March 2026 Global Education Changes by Country: Key Updates & Reforms
In Sri Lanka, the March school term plan and school calendar gave the 2026 year a working structure that sat beside a reform agenda already moving into phased implementation for selected grades.
Education Ministry kicks off 2026 training to implement revised lower ...
DILI, 14 April 2026 (TATOLI) — The Ministry of Education launched a new phase of teacher training to support the implementation of the revised curriculum for the lower secondary school as part of broader efforts to improve the national education system. The Minister of Education, Dulce de Jesus Soares, presided over the official opening of the 2026 training programme for the core curriculum ...
