Enhanced payments for GCE O/L staff

by S.M. Wijayaratne, Kurunegala cor.

The Department of Examinations is making arrangements to hold the G.C.E. (O/L) Examination 2013 from December 10 - 20 islandwide at 4,312 centres. About 580,110 candidates have applied to sit the examination of whom 384,010 are school candidates and 196,100 private candidates. Around 36,000 school heads and senior school teachers would be deployed as staff at examination centres and 35,000 senior school teachers would be deployed for evaluation activities this year, by the Examinations Department.

A senior official of the NWP Education Department in Kurunegala told the Sunday Observer that the Education Ministry has decided to increase the payments to staff engaged in examination duties by 25 percent, from this year.

He said special investigation teams would be deployed to make sudden visits to examination centres to ensure that the examination process is being conducted according to the rules and regulations issued by the Examinations Department.

He said the Commissioner General of Examinations, W.M.N.J. Pushpakumara, has decided to educate all school heads on the behaviour of candidates at examination centres as some candidates had behaved impolitely during the past several years.

"Those who violate examination rules would not be issued their exam results or the results would be suspended" he said.