General Secretary of Ceylon Teachers’ Union – Mr. Joseph Stalin says that A/L candidates are seriously inconvenienced due to the delay in paper marking.
He has also disclosed that the Ministry of Finance has decided to reduce Rs. 1,000 from the payments recently proposed by the Minister of Education for paper marking.
Meanwhile, Mahinda Jayasinghe, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teacher Service Union, says that although two weeks have passed since the end of the A/L examination, it has not been possible to start the paper marking process.
Approval had been received for a daily payment of Rs. 2,000 for teachers attending paper marking.
Also, the Department of Examinations had stated that they would continue to recruit Marking Examiners through an online process until March 08.
