Sri Lanka’s education system should take the form of an IT-based one by 2030 in line with the ‘digitalizing education’ theme of the UNESCO 2022 summit in Paris, said education minister Susil Premajayantha.
He has told parliament that three programmes have already been formulated for general, higher and professional educations in collaboration with Microsoft.
The IT subject presently in the school curriculum will be transformed into artificial Intelligence in two phases from grades six to nine and from grades 10 to 13, said the minister.
An eight-year process will thus be cut by half to be completed in four years, he said.
In order to train the teachers for the subject, the 85 existing computer resources centres and 15 others to be newly-established will be used.
All of them will be provided with hassle-free fibre-optic internet connections, he also said.
