Elizabeth Moir Tenduf-La,

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is a British educationist in

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. She founded the

Colombo International School Colombo International School (CIS) is a private co-educational school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1982 by Elizabeth Moir and employs an English-medium curriculum. In 1998 the school was expanded by the new Chairman of the Board of Di ...

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and the

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Education

Elizabeth Moir read

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, where she captained the Oxford University Women’s Tennis team which beat

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16 to 1 in 1961. She stayed on at Oxford to complete the Diploma in Education.

Career

Soon after, she joined the Diocesan Girls’ School in

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where she established the A Level Mathematics Department. After four years in Asia, Moir returned to

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where she worked as an IBM systems analyst in the City of London. In 1982, she came to Sri Lanka, with her husband, Kesang Tenduf-La, and three children, and set up the

. Using the British curriculum and offering London O and A Level examinations, its main clientele was Sri Lankan parents who would otherwise have sent their children overseas to be educated. In 1990, Moir was asked by President Premadasa to run a multimedia English language programme on

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and

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to give the rural people an equal opportunity to learn the English language that their counterparts in the towns enjoyed. She invited

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, a former Head of BBC English, to work with her. Her team bought the English language programme ''Follow Me'' from the BBC and used this with introductions in Sinhala and

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on the state radio and television at prime time. They had 80 language centres across the country from

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in the North to Matara in the South, and held written and spoken English examinations set by the

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. She then moved on to set up the British School in Colombo in 1994. Mrs Moir started the

in 1996.

Honors

In June 2014 Mrs Elizabeth Moir Tenduf-La was appointed a

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for her services to British Education and the teaching of English in Sri Lanka. This award was presented to her at Windsor Castle in July 2015 by Her Majesty the Queen.

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