Sri Lanka's hoping to benefit from the global demand for information technology graduates, with the opening of a new 1,000 student campus on the outskirts of the capital, Colombo. The new privately-funded institute hopes its graduates will fill the demand in the IT sector throughout the world, but especially in India.
CORBEN: Work on the new $US5.7 million information technology and management institute at Malabe, just outside the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, is progressing with an opening date set for early 2009. The campus hopes to be a key source of IT professionals from Sri Lanka ready to work in South Asia's booming IT industry. The campus is the vision of veteran Sri Lankan businessman Dr Neville Fernando who has backed the project with his own money in order, as he says, to build a centre for excellence. Besides IT courses, Dr Fernando says the institute will offer extensive language programs to enhance students' chances of working abroad, but especially in Asia.(from ABC)
CORBEN: Work on the new $US5.7 million information technology and management institute at Malabe, just outside the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, is progressing with an opening date set for early 2009. The campus hopes to be a key source of IT professionals from Sri Lanka ready to work in South Asia's booming IT industry. The campus is the vision of veteran Sri Lankan businessman Dr Neville Fernando who has backed the project with his own money in order, as he says, to build a centre for excellence. Besides IT courses, Dr Fernando says the institute will offer extensive language programs to enhance students' chances of working abroad, but especially in Asia.(from ABC)
