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Western Province is located in the southwest of Sri Lanka. It has an area of 3,684 square kilometres (1,422 sq mi). [1] The province is surrounded by the Laccadive Sea to the west, North Western Province to the north, Sabaragamuwa Province to the east and the Southern Province to the south.
Secondary education in Sri Lanka is provided by a diverse selection of educational options: . National schools, with funding and criteria by the national Ministry of Education
It is usually taken by students during the final two years of Senior secondary school (Grade 10 & 11 (usually ages 15–16)) or external (non-school) candidate. The exam is usually held in December. The exams are held in three mediums Sinhala, Tamil and English.
The province is named after its former indigenous inhabitants, namely the Sabara, an Indic term for hunter-gatherer tribes, a term seldom used in ancient Sri Lanka. The Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka is located in the town of Belihuloya , and was founded in 1991.
The state accepted the recommendation of the White Paper on education (1950), to split education at grade 8, when compulsory education ended. One of the three streams was academic. In keeping with this policy, Government Girls' College, Castle Street (Devi Balika Vidyalaya) began to offer classes from grade 9 to 12, catering to academically ...
Western: Gampaha: Negombo: Negombo: National [10] [11] Union College, Tellippalai: Common Free School: 9 December 1816: American Ceylon Mission: Northern: Jaffna: Valikamam: Tellippalai: Provincial [12] [13] Weera Puran Appu Model School - Moratuwa Wesleyan Missionary School - Idama, then Suduwella Methodist College 10 June 1817 Methodist ...
Term length: 5 years: ... 6 June 1988: Website: secgov.wpc.gov.lk /en: The governor of the Western Province of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ... 11 July 1994 1 December 1994 [2] 3
The first Sri Lankan ruler of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, Pandukabhaya, is recorded for the 4th century BCE. Buddhism was introduced in the 3rd century BCE by Arhath Mahinda (son of the Indian emperor Ashoka). The island was divided into numerous kingdoms over the following centuries, intermittently (between CE 993–1077) united under Chola rule ...