Foreign Lecturers For Local Unis
7-Oct-2012By Niranjala AriyawanshaForeign lecturers will be brought in for two proposed engineering faculties in the Sri Lanka’s state-run education system, University Grants Commission Chairman Prof....
View ArticleNew partnership to strengthen relations between Australia and Sri Lanka
21-Oct-2012The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), the peak bodies for Information and Communication Technology professionals in respective countries, today...
View ArticleDigital Empowerment
18-Nov-2012In its continuous efforts in revolutionizing the ICT sector, Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel launched “Mobitel Upahara” for state sector employees in 2008. Today, in a move to further empower...
View ArticleUnderemployment
25-Nov-2012Data supplied by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) shows that Sri Lanka’s unemployment numbers have had fallen by 0.3 percentage points, from 4.2% last year to 3.9% by the second quarter...
View ArticleGoogle Opens Office in Sri Lanka
2-Dec-2012Google, the US based multi billion dollar internet search engine established an office in Sri Lanka this year. When this reporter asked Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.’s Country Lead Public...
View Article19% Youth Unemployed
13-Jan-2013The island’s youth unemployment is 19%. This was said by EdEx Chairman Kamal Abeysinghe at a function held on Tuesday (January 8) to mark this organisation’s 10th education exhibition that...
View ArticleIndustry Sceptical of IT Export Figure
20-Jan-2013According to Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, earnings from the export of IT and IT enabled services (ITES) has had nearly doubled over the past two years to hit a...
View ArticleCheap Broadband, Electricity, As Vital As Physical Infrastructure
10-Feb-2013In as much as physical infrastructure is needed for the country’s development, so also is there the need to have in place a low cost, internet broadband and electricity regime to boost Sri...
View ArticleCombined Talent, Innovation, Capital, The Missing Ingredient – Dr Wijesuriya
31-Mar-2013By Roy SilvaThe CCC is much focused on building the competitiveness of Sri Lanka, bringing together the corporate weight of Sri Lanka towards building the competitiveness of the country and...
View ArticleCMI and KPMG to Collaborate on Knowledge Sharing
5-May-2013The Sri Lanka Branch of the Chartered Management Institute, UK, one of the largest professional bodies for management practitioners recently entered into a long term arrangement with KPMG’s...
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