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The Taxila Central College of Horana (commonly known as Taxila Central College or simply as Taxila) (Sinhala: තක්ෂිලා මධ්ය විද්යාලයය established in 1946 as a Central College. The current number of students of Taxila Central College is over 3,700. There are classes from grade 6 to 13. == History == The present day Taxila central college is a result of evolution over one hundred years.in 1905 Horana Buddhist English school was established under the Programme of opening of Buddhist schools, launched by the Ceylon Buddhist Theosophist led by Col. Henry Steel Olcott. it was established in a small plot of land provided by Sathis Wimalasekara, a land owner of the area. The school was shifted to a new place situated in a plot of land donated by Arthur V Dies, a philanthropist, during the 1930s. the Horana Buddhist English School was renamed as Taxila Buddhist English School as proposed by W.K.S. Fonseka, a teacher of the same school, and endorsed by then principal W. S. Sirisena. As a result of the educational reforms proposed by the C W W Kannangara committee,in 1943, 54 central colleges were beginning to be established throughout the country. That was a revolutionary step in the sense of social mobility occurred thereafter. Moreover, there was a growing demand for taking over of the Taxila Buddhist English school to the government and making it a central college.〔Arunalu, the journal of the central colleges past pupils association of Sri Lanka, 28th Sep. 2010 issue〕 As an outcome of those events, under the patronage of the minister of Education, C W W Kannangara, on 6 June 1946, Taxila Buddhist English school was converted into Taxila Central College.〔Arunalu〕 From the first principal Thomas Newton Silva, a number of principals namely, Mr. H. Y. De Silva, Mr. Edmond Dias, Mr. A. R. Erathne and Mr. Jayaweera Bandara had given leadership to the Taxila Central College when the premises of the school shifted to the present venue in 1954. minister John Kotalawala was instrumental in completing the task in time. during the first phase of central college, the first student entered to the arts faculty of the university of Colombo in 1951. After the shift of venue Taxila Central College became an above grade 6 school, leaving the primary section at the old venue as a different school. the shift was occurred in the times of Edmond Dias as the principal.〔Arunalu, the journal of central colleges past pupils association, 28th Sep. 2010 issue〕 The principal Mr. E. D. K. Abeysekara who was appointed in 1958 had recorded the longest period of being a principal, except Mr. H K A Abhayapala, in this college. He did a yeoman service to develop the school. A hostel was established gathering 200 students, and physical resources were developed during this period. Electricity and water facilities were included among the major facilities. Science scholars were admitted during this era. In 1958 the school got laboratory facilities and the science classes for ordinary level examination have been initiated in 1960. In 1961 mother Taxila turned a new page of her history book by initiating the Advanced Level Science Section. bringing success to that idea, a student of Taxila could attend to Engineering Faculty in 1963. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taxila Central College, Horana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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