Ban on tuition during school hours?

28 September 2015 08:35 am

Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today, his ministry was considering whether to introduce new regulations to ban tuition classes for students between the school hours of 7.30 am and 1.30 pm.

“We will be considering whether to stop tuition classes during schools hours or whether this problem has to be solved in some other way,” he said.

He told this at a briefing held to inform the mediaabout the Education Ministry’s Rs.2,000 million project to install flush toilets and pit latrines at countrywide primary schools, which do not have proper sanitary facilities. (Piyumi Fonseka)