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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 and Local 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 ...
Trinity College, Kandy ( Sinhala: ත්රිත්ව විද්යාලය, Tamil: டிரினிட்டி கல்லூரி) is an independent Anglican day and boarding school for boys located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1872 by British Anglican missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, modelled on ...
The Sri Lankan Advanced Level ( A-level) formerly called Higher School Certificate (HSC), is a General Certificate of Education (GCE) qualification exam in Sri Lanka, similar to the British Advanced Level, conducted annually by the Department of Examinations of the Ministry of Education. It is usually taken by students during the final two ...
Southlands College is the premier Girls school in Southern Sri Lanka. It was started during the British rule in 1885. Lucy Vanderstraaten was the first principal. The school began in two larger down-stair rooms in a house in Fort with a group of some 50 children. It was originally named "Wesleyan Girls School".
Most of the schools in Sri Lanka are maintained by the government as a part of the free education. Currently (as of 2021) there are 10,155 government schools (373 national schools and 9,782 provincial schools) [18] with a student population of 4.2 million and 235,924 teachers, 736 Pirivenas and also 104 private schools with 127,968 students.
Jaffna College. / 9.7292222°N 79.9484167°E / 9.7292222; 79.9484167. Jaffna College is a private school in Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka. [2] It was founded in 1871 as a successor to the Batticotta Seminary which had been established by American missionaries.
In Sri Lanka, privately-run schools that follow the local curriculum are generally referred to as "private schools." These schools are particularly popular among parents who value education in the national languages of Sinhala, Tamil, and English. whereas some private schools with local curriculums may only offer English-medium education.
The Aquinas College of Higher Studies was founded in 1953 by Catholic priests Peter A. Pillai, the former rector of St. Joseph's College, and Thomas Cooray, the Archbishop of Colombo, as a Catholic university open to all ethnic and religious groups. It was registered in 1954 by the Ministry of Education Ceylon and was established in Colombo 8.