Properly drafted textbooks to students in future

by Ananda KANNANGARA

The quality of textbooks will be improved by the Education Publication Department (EPD) for the benefit of over 4.2 million schoolchildren in the country.Accordingly, the EPD will produce the drafts of some textbooks before a panel of education experts including higher education officers, school teachers and university lecturers to review and make suggestions to improve the contents.

EPD Commissioner, W.N.J. Pushpakumara told the Sunday Observer that when the drafts of textbooks are forwarded to an expert panel before they are being published, they could carefully study the contents and make necessary changes of lessons or suggestions to existing lessons. He said the objective of this program is to improve the standard of education of children.

Quoting an example, the Commissioner said the contents of certain subjects such as Information Technology, which large number of students are currently following as a school subject from Garde six onwards should be updated as there are developments in the IT sector almost everyday.

He said in addition, developments could also be made in few other subjects such as Science and Agriculture.

"This new program has already been informed to the higher educational officials," he added.