Minister of Education, Heritage and Arts, Dr. Mahendra Reddy stresses the only resource materials that parents need to purchase are stationery and exercise books.
While speaking at a press conference today, Reddy confirmed the Ministry will make a set of resource materials available for free for every child in every class at the latest by end of March.
He added the soft copies of these materials from year 1 to year 13 are already uploaded on the Ministry’s home page and the students can also download a full set of these materials.
Reddy highlights that these soft copies will also be available from schools and students can download it on their flash drive.
He said the Ministry will boost the School Text Book bank so that every student can have access to text books and novels.
Reddy mentions that to some extend the students might have to share text books and novels but they will try their best not to let this happen.
He added that all schools are to give the data to the ministry by the end of the first week of term one as to how many text books and novels they need for different years.
Reddy then added the textbooks and novels will be purchased from the suppliers and distributed to schools where as the resource materials will be printed by the Ministry of Education and delivered to schools.
Meanwhile, Reddy is appealing to parents who have used text books at home to donate it to the nearest school for use by other students.
Reddy highlights they have given instructions to all schools not to give out booklists of any text books to students or parents.
Meanwhile, the year 12 examination results is expected to be out by early next week.
