{"id":1480,"date":"2026-01-01T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:13:27","slug":"nie-director-general-temporarily-steps-down-pending-inquiry-into-grade-6-module-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"NIE Director General temporarily steps down pending inquiry into \u2018Grade 6 module\u2019 controversy..!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of NIE, Prof. Manjula Vithanapathirana, has decided to temporarily step down from her position until the conclusion of the inquiry into the controversial Grade 6 English module.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education recently announced that the distribution of a newly printed Grade 6 English language module has been suspended with immediate effect after it was confirmed that the material contained a reference to an inappropriate website.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, an investigation was initiated following a complaint alleging that an unsuitable website\u2019s name had been included in the module.<\/p>\n<p>The textbook in question was prepared by the National Institute of Education and has already been printed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Nalaka Kaluwewe has lodged a formal complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the matter, as investigations into the incident continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of NIE, Prof. Manjula Vithanapathirana, has decided to temporarily step down from her position until the conclusion of the inquiry into the controversial Grade 6 English module. The Ministry of Education recently announced that the distribution of a newly printed Grade 6 English language module has been suspended with immediate effect after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}