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The Sri Lankan Ordinary Level (O-level) formerly called Senior School Certificate (SSC), is a General Certificate of Education (GCE) qualification in Sri Lanka, conducted by the Department of Examinations of the Ministry of Education. It is based on the Cambridge University Ordinary Level qualification.
Currently (as of 2021) there are 10,155 government schools (373 national schools and 9,782 provincial schools) [20] with a student population of 4.2 million and 235,924 teachers, 736 Pirivenas and also 104 private schools with 127,968 students. With the establishment if the provincial council system in the 1980s the central government handed ...
The Overseas School of Colombo is a multinational English medium international school located in Pelawatte near Battaramulla, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1] The school offers IB programs from Pre-K through to 12th grade in Sri Lanka. OSC is accredited by the Council of International Schools and the Middle States Association of Colleges and ...
The British School in Colombo was founded by British educator Elizabeth Moir in 1994. [1] She had previously founded Colombo International School twelve years earlier. In 2005 BSC moved to its current site in Borella .
Colombo International School (CIS) is a private co-educational school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1982 by Elizabeth Moir and employs an English-medium curriculum. In 1998 the school was expanded by the new Chairman of the Board of Directors, Armyne Wirasinha, who created a new branch, Colombo International School Kandy, in Mawilmada.
Elizabeth Moir School uses the British education system. Students sit for IGCSE and Advanced Level examinations, set by Edexcel in Sri Lanka, and have had the best results of any international school outside the United Kingdom in both 2015 at Advanced Level, with 38% A* and in 2016 at IGCSE, with 64% A*. [2] [3] [4]
Gamini Dissanayake National School, Kotmale 1AB 1096 Kotmale Kotmale Al Minhaj National School, Hapugasthalawa 1AB 668 Hanguranketha Udahewahata Poramadulla Central College, Rikillagaskada 1AB 3401 Hanguranketha Udahewahata Victoria National School, Adhikarigama 1AB 687 Walapane Walapane Sri Sumangala National School, Nildandahinna: 1AB 1437
In recent years, the exam has become extremely competitive and even traumatic for many high school students in Sri Lanka. For the academic year 2013, out of 55,241 candidates who applied for university admission, only 43.8% gained access to state universities through the University Grants Commission (UGC), despite meeting the minimum admission ...