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The TISL says: "The survey also revealed that 10% to 25% students drop out from the schools every year in the plantation sector. These alarming figures underline the need for more determined action to retain students at school.
This finding confirms that only 7% of students in the plantation sector who pass their Ordinary Level examination continue to the GCE (Advanced Level) and fewer than one per cent of them complete their GCE (A/L) and enter university. The students who are in the secondary level are poor in major subjects like mathematics, science, English and social studies.
In the estate sector, there are 830 schools with approximately 199,200 students.
The survey was done in 21 schools in the Badulla district and over 300 students, teachers and parents were interviewed.
Lack of transport facilities, school buildings being unsafe, the poor condition of classrooms and the lack of desks, chairs, blackboards, learning materials such as textbooks, writing books, pens and pencils and also drinking water and sanitation have been attributed to the low educational achievements in the plantation schools.
Poverty and lack of parental support are frequently quoted as reasons for the high drop-out rate while the lack of interest and support of parents was seen as a major impediment to school attendance and performance, with a major factor being the absence of mothers who had sought employment in the Middle East as housemaids. The survey has revealed that many social ills such as alcoholism, fatalism, low self-value and low awareness of rights befell the households when the mothers went abroad for work."
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