{"id":164826,"date":"2016-07-06T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=164826"},"modified":"2016-07-06T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T04:58:13","slug":"past-pupils-can-now-sit-in-for-grade-1-state-school-admissions-education-ministry-reverses-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/past-pupils-can-now-sit-in-for-grade-1-state-school-admissions-education-ministry-reverses-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Pupils Can Now Sit In For Grade 1 State School Admissions, Education Ministry Reverses Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education reversed its decision and will now permit members of the Past Pupils Associations of government schools to sit in as panelists for all categories of interviews that is scheduled to take place for the intake of year one admissions for year 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158477\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/education-ministry-to-draw-up-guideline-to-prevent-hiv-and-other-discriminations-at-schools\/akila-viraj-kariyawasam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158477\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-158477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Education Minister - Akila Viraj Kariyawasam\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Minister &#8211; Akila Viraj Kariyawasam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A circular issued earlier by the Education Ministry bearing number 17\/2016 on the 16th of June 2016, prohibited members of the Past Pupils Associations from sitting in as panelists for interviews, especially where children were to be interviewed for categories such as is Chief Occupant\u2019s Category, Brother\u2019s Category, Transfer Category, Education Category and International Category.<\/p>\n<p>However that issued circular permitted the Past Pupils Association members to sit in only as interview panelists for the category where the \u201cPast Pupils\u2019 children\u201d were being interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Colombo Telegraph carrying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-more-obaoga-panelists-for-grade-1-state-school-admissions-education-ministry\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this story exclusively on the 3rd of July 2016<\/span><\/a>, the reversal of this change was reported by many of the Colombo print media as of yesterday. However the amendment to the Education Ministry&#8217;s circular pertaining to this reversal is yet to be officially seen, even on their website.\u00a0<strong><em>(Janaka Ranaweera \u00a9 Colombo Telegraph)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":158477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Past Pupils Can Now Sit In For Grade 1 State School Admissions, Education Ministry Reverses Decision - 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