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National Education Research and Evaluation Center (NEREC)

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The National Education Research and Evaluation Center (NEREC) was established with the assistance of the World Bank in the year 2000 in the Faculty of Education, University of Colombo,Sri Lanka. The General Education Project 2 and the Teacher Education and Teacher Deployment Project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Education and Cultural Affairs provided the basic support in terms of financial assistance to establish the NEREC. The main objective of the NEREC is to be engaged in Research in the field of Education and provide advice to Education planners. Educational Testing, Evaluation and Training are its other functions.

Catering to the local and foreign requests in the above areas is one of the major functions of the NEREC.

Our Vision
Improving education and training at national and regional level by undertaking

  • research
  • evaluation
  • development
  • dissemination activities
    and
  • providing information services.

Our Mission

Establishing

  • an energetic
  • forward looking
  • outward looking
  • educational research
  • evaluation
  • testing and
  • training

institution that has a national and regional profile.

 

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