EDEX launches job fair in addition to exhibition

The Royal College Union (RCU) (Old Boys' Union) which has introduced EDEX Expo to assist parents and students to choose students' future career development and higher education prospects, 10 years on and now in its 11th year is known to be an organisation to venture new avenues.

In addition to the education exhibitions, their newest value addition to the Education Fair is EDEX Job Fair endorsed and supported by the Inter- national Labour Organisation (ILO) that would create a platform for organisations to recruit suitable personnel and also to those qualified to gain access to jobs and for the youth to plan their future.

At a media briefing held this week in Colombo it was announced that the 11th EDEX Expo would be held from 17 to 19 January at the BMICH and in Kandy at Kandy City Centre on 24 and 25 January. This year there would be 250 local and foreign universities from over 20 countries at the BMICH providing educational services information on academic, vocational and professional qualifications for the youth of this country.

Kamal Abeysinghe, Chairman EDEX said that during the last 10 years more than half a million people have visited these educational exhibitions. On the sidelines of the briefing, he told the Business Times that Sri Lankan students studying abroad has its economic benefits as they return as qualified professionals with expertise and knowledge that would be applied to Sri Lankan economy.

He said a trend in globalisation is the exchange of knowledge among the countries for their mutual benefit and this foreign education could be an ideal vehicle for this exchange of knowledge and experience. He said that one Indian IT company alone drew back around 50,000 Indian IT professionals from other countries to this Indian IT company.