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RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says stu­dents who are ex­pelled from schools are not sim­ply aban­doned but are in­stead placed in al­ter­na­tive pro­grammes de­signed to ad­dress be­hav­iour­al is­sues while al­low­ing them to con­tin­ue their ed­u­ca­tion.

Speak­ing on the is­sue of school vi­o­lence and ex­pul­sion, Dowlath said the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has a four-tier in­ter­ven­tion strat­e­gy through its Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion aimed at sup­port­ing trou­bled stu­dents while main­tain­ing a safe en­vi­ron­ment for oth­er stu­dents and staff.