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Sri Lanka's population had an adult literacy rate of 96.3% in 2015, which is above average by world and regional standards. Computer literacy in 2017 28.3% and phone users in 2017 105%, website users 32% in 2017. [note 1] Education plays a major part in the life and culture of the country, which dates back to 543 BC.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
'Future Minds occupy top billings in Sri Lanka today' ". dailynews.lk. 2012-07-18. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21 "Secretary Defence Declares open the Future Minds 2012 Exhibition at BMICH". Ministry of Defence and Urban Development. 2012. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012
The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction, poetry, translations, songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala, Tamil and English language are reviewed. [1]
However the majority of Sri Lankan populace lived outside urban areas and did not belong to the social elite, and therefore did not enjoy the benefits of English-medium education. The issue was compounded further by the fact that in Jaffna, where a largely Tamil populace resided, [ 5 ] students had access to English-medium education through ...
Based on a proposal submitted in 1992 to Sri Lankan government, [5] LEARN connected to the internet in 1995 opening doors to the Internet era in Sri Lanka [3] [6] Today LEARN as the National Research and Education Network in Sri Lanka, connects all of the UGC funded Sri Lankan national universities, a number of public universities, higher ...
Sri Lanka's education system is state funded, and offered free of charge at all levels, including the university level. Schooling is compulsory for children from 5 to 13 years of age. The national literacy rate is 91%. [7] The reported literacy rate of the urban population is 93%, 92% of the rural population and 75% of the estate population. [7]
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...