SINHALA Education Ministry had agreed to hand over a 54 acre land belonging to the TAMIL'S Teacher Training School to SINHALA Defence MINISTRY.!!!

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Defence Ministry takes over Palali Teaching School land .
Monday, 26 December 2011 09:28 Lanka News Web

Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) Secretary Joseph Stalin says that the Education Ministry had agreed to hand over a 54 acre land belonging to the Palali Teacher Training School to the Defence Secretary.

Instead of the two teaching schools in the Jaffna peninsula – Palali Teacher Training School and Kopay Teacher Training School – there is now one combined teaching school.

The school had been taken to the Sinnaveli Muththuthambi College in 1990 and it currently teaches Roman Catholicism.

Stalin says that the Tamil teaching students are being treated unfairly by putting in place one teaching school that teaches only Roman Catholicism instead of teaching Math, Science, English Commerce, Agriculture, Dancing and Singing like it did at the Palali Teacher Training School when the high security zone (HSZ) is being cleared.

He noted that it was unfortunate that the Tamil speaking teachers were losing one of their training institutes after it is allocated to the Defence Ministry and the Tamil students were losing their chance to a proper education even after the end of the war.

Science Faculty Commissioner of the Education Ministry Prof. TIssa Hewavitharana said the Palali Teacher Training School has been combnied with the Kopay Teacher Training School to prevent the wastage of resources.

However, he denied any knowledge of the land being allocated to the Defence Ministry.

Military Spokesperson Brigadier Nihal Hapuarachchi said that he was not aware of the matter, but there was a military camp close by. Therefore he said the decision would have been made by the Defence Ministry.