Government Curriculum To Suit Post-Covid Way Of Life Adjusting To The Post-Covid New World Order

From all the international and local media we see, it is apparent that there would be a paradigm shift in the way we live and conduct our businesses and daily life after Covid-19.

- Sumi Munasinghe

Artificial intelligence and blockchain technology are here to stay. For example. Singapore and Dubai have already switched to this new world order.

Another example is that our school-going children were thrust on to Zoom / Microsoft Teams and other online communication platforms during the lockdown, and most students who had access to tablets and mobile phones are already conversant with this new way of communicating and can follow online classes and complete homework set by the school.

Our former PM who understands what’s going on in the world and proposed free WIFI and tablets to students in Advanced Level classes, but the disruptive lawmakers shouted it down.

This method of teaching is here to stay. Covid-19 has simply accelerated a trend that was coming.

Universities like Oxford, Cambridge and several of the US Ivy League colleges have commenced this academic year on online platforms, offering virtual tuition.

Imagine if one of our students from a school here can enroll in a faraway country University degree course, without having to leave Sri Lanka, how we can truly produce very highly educated young citizens to meet the challenges of the new world order.