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Resourcing the Right to Primary Education in Sri Lanka

A Summary of Findings of the Equitable Resourcing of Primary Schools (ERPS) Study

Publisher: Save the Children

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2005

Page Numbers: 31

Acc. No: 2413

Class No: 372 RES-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Education

Type of Resource: Report

Languages: English

ISBN: 955-1197-00-3

This document presents the key findings from A Study of Equitable Resourcing of Primary Schools Under the 1997 Education Reforms, an in-depth analysis of the human and physical resourcing of 179 schools in Sri Lanka. The study found that, despite progress in a number of areas, resourcing of our primary schools is far from sufficient or equitable. Far from reaching all the targets of the 1997 Education Reforms, many schools do not yet reach a basic threshold of what children, communities and teachers see as absolute basic requirements for effective teaching and learning to take place. To reverse the situation, the study makes recommendations that could transform the processes and practices of resource allocation to schools through a greater focus on equity of outcomes, rather that equity of inputs, on participatory school-based planning and also on wider quality issues in education.