Seychelles and Sri Lanka to boost ties in education |17 July 2014

Seychelles and Sri Lanka are set to develop deeper ties in the education sector. This follows a five-day working visit to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka by the Minister for Education Macsuzy Mondon, who returned to Seychelles on Sunday.

This year’s national theme being ‘The International Year of Small Island Developing States -Seychelles a Determined Island Nation’, the minister’s visit to Sri Lanka sought to explore further avenues of cooperation in the education sector between the two island states.

During her visit, Minister Mondon held discussions with the Sri Lankan Minister for Education, Bandula Gunawardhana and the Sri Lankan Minister for Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake.
 
Both ministerial meetings were an opportunity for Minister Mondon to follow up on aspects of existing education cooperation agreements between Seychelles and Sri Lanka while also discussing prospective new areas of exchange between the two countries.

With the ministry’s increased focus towards ‘Quality Education for All’, during her visit to Sri Lanka Minister Mondon also visited various key educational institutions of interest, namely the Mattakkuliya Institute of Advanced Technology, the University of Vocational Technology as well as a teacher training institution, the Pasdunrata College of Education.

Vocational Technical, Information, Communications and Technology and Teacher education being priority areas the Ministry of Education in Seychelles wishes to further develop, the visit to the various institutions provided the minister first hand insight in areas for further collaboration.

The Sri Lankan Minister for Education also invited Minister Mondon to visit the Mahinda Rajapaksa College, a newly built modern secondary school in Sri Lanka named after that country’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa. It is considered as one of the most prestigious schools on the island.