Commences Enrollment for Foreign Degree Programmes

17th January 2017: SLIIT, the premier degree awarding institute, continues to strengthen its ties with foreign universities in order to provide students with a broad scope of academic opportunities, both locally and globally. SLIIT has now commenced enrollment of students for the undergraduate degree programmes of Curt i n University, Australia and Liverpool John Moores U n i v e r s i t y, UK. Applications will close on the 2nd of February and the aptitude test will be held on the 5th of February 2017.

Ranked in the top two percent worldwide by the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Curtin University, has partnered with SLIIT since 2002. Curtin offers degrees in the disciplines of Engineering and Computing in partnership with SLIIT. The four- year degrees offered are the Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree in Civil and Construction Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

The admission requirement for the Engineering degrees is three passes, including a pass in Mathematics or Physics at the G.C.E A/L examination ( Sri Lanka / London) in one and the same sitting and a pass at the aptitude test conducted by SLIIT.

Furthermore, the SLIITCurtin University partnership paves the way for students to obtain a three-year Bachelor of Science degrees in Computing in the streams of Software Engineering, Computer Systems and Networking and Information Technology. Continued on Page 9

During my school days I was able to participate in a lot of activities involving clubs and societies. I became the Chairman of Royal College Tamil Literary Association and Debaters’ Council for the year 2010. During this particular period, I also was selected as the Captain of the Tamil Debate Team 2010/ 2011. These positions at school helped me to enhance my leadership skills by organizing events, making plans/decisions for the betterment of the club, representing college in competitions and managing team affairs.

While attending Royal College, I was chosen as an Editor for the Hindu Students Union and Dramatic Society in 2010.

Due to your immense contribution to school, you were appointed as a college prefect. Could you tell us about your experience as a college prefect?

Because of the extracurricular and cocurricular activities, I was involved in at school, I was given the opportunity to serve college as the Deputy Head Prefect (DHP) for the year 2011/2012.

Clubs and societies gave me the opportunity to gain leadership qualities in a smaller scale, which includes only the stakeholders who are interested in that particular club. But becoming the DHP of Royal College Prefects Council 2011/2012 gave me a much larger exposure, where I got the chance to provide direction and leadership to approximately 8000 students. My time as DHP of Royal College was