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Educational Legislation and Educational Development: Compulsory Education in Ceylon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

U. D. I. Sirisena
U. D. I. Sirisena*
Affiliation:
Ministry of Education of Ceylon
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Extract

This article attempts to examine the various factors that influenced the introduction of legal provision for compulsory education in Ceylon and the machinery employed for the enforcement of these legal provisions with a view to ascertain the extent to which the legal measures for compulsory education effectively encouraged the development of elementary education.

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Education in the East III
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Fall 1967, pp. 329 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by New York University 

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