{"id":1313,"date":"2025-07-24T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thulirvu.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:45:22","slug":"govt-to-decide-on-grade-5-scholarship-examination-in-2029-deputy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Govt to decide on Grade 5 scholarship examination in 2029 &#8211; Deputy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/span>he government will take a decision on the Grade 5 scholarship examination in 2029, Deputy Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Madura Seneviratne said today.<\/p>\n<p>He told Parliament that a review will be done by 2028 and a decision taken again in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said there will be no need to send children to urban schools by that time.<\/p>\n<p>He said the new education reforms will focus on activity based education rather than on the examinations-based primary education system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will take a decision on the Grade 5 scholarship examination in 2029, Deputy Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Madura Seneviratne said today. He told Parliament that a review will be done by 2028 and a decision taken again in 2029. The Minister said there will be no need to send children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-breaking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}