The awarding of medals and certificates to the winners of the national level Olympiad organized annually by the Ministry of Education and the Sri Lanka Institute of Physics was held at the New Art Gallery of the University of Colombo. Students are working to start speaking English in every class at a nationwide level. Also, the minister further commented that in the future, a pilot project will be started to bring all school syllabuses of grades 6-9 and 10-13 to international level.
The minister also stated that they are working to overcome the challenges of achieving the global sustainable development goals related to the education sector by the year 2030. Also, 8000 college teachers and 26,000 graduate teachers will be added to the education system from next month. The minister further commented that steps will be taken to develop the resource.