“Payments assigned for A/L exam duties insufficient”

• Lesser payments would cause delays in releasing results of examinations

By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama   

The Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) yesterday said that the daily payment assigned for examiners to evaluate 2022 GCE Advanced Level (A/L) papers must increase to Rs.3,000. CTU Secretary Joseph Stalin said yesterday that the daily payment of Rs 2,000 sanctioned for checking the answer scripts is not enough.

 However, the Education Minister had agreed to increase the daily payment for correcting examination answer scripts to Rs.3,000 through a cabinet paper, he said. Lesser payments would cause delays in releasing results of examinations, Stalin said.

“Teachers were in favour of continuing with examination activities. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic and at times when issues were created by the government, teachers used to work without any charges,” he said.  

Even the examinations department knows that the announced payments are not enough. Therefore, the government should intervene in the issue, he added.  

Meanwhile, the examination department has again called for applications to recruit examiners to check answer scripts of the A/L examination.  

Examiners will be recruited online until March 8. The department further stated that if the commencement of the evaluation process is delayed, the release of A/L results would also 
be delayed.   

• the Education Minister had agreed to increase the daily payment for correcting examination answer scripts to Rs.3,000 through a cabinet paper