1,000 teacher assistants soon

by S.M. Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Corr.

The Government will take steps to recruit 1,000 teacher assistants early next year to teach Buddhism in remote government schools islandwide.

These future teacher assistants sat for a competitive examination conduced by National Institute of Education (NIE) recently at 95 centres in 19 towns in the country.

Over 12,000 candidates sat for this competitive examination and all of them were Sunday Dhamma School teachers who had passed the Buddhist Dharmacharya Examination conducted by the Department of Examinations, Sri Lanka, said K. Dhammaratana Nayaka Therea, the chief Advisor of Dhamma Schools of the Kurunegala District at a meeting of heads of Dhamma Schools of the NWP held recently.