Over 6,000 new teachers to be recruited [October 02 2010]

The Ministry of Education plans to recruit over 6,000 new teachers this year, Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena said.

Of the total 6,728 appointments, 3,554 teachers will be appointed this month. Minister said that English medium teachers will be assigned to teach Science subjects.

“ Out of 3,554 teachers, out of 3,000 are from the National Education Colleges and 554 English medium teachers”, he said.