Wisdom Business Academy celebrates 15 years of excellence
Wisdom Business Academy, the premier business school for CIMA education in Sri Lanka, commenced its operations in 2002 with the noble interest of setting up a quality education institution which can meet the challenges of molding future management accountancy professionals to the country. At present, Wisdom Business Academy is proudly represented as the “Largest CIMA Business School in Sri Lanka”, and the student numbers have grown from a mere 600 to a staggering 5000 student enrolments per year. This year, Wisdom Business Academy is celebrating their 15th anniversary and is proud to be producing the highest number of CIMA graduates in Sri Lanka, who would bethe future business leaders. Wisdom Business Academy was awarded the prestigious “CIMA Learning Partner” status in 2004, and presently enjoys the status as a “Global Premium Learning Partner of CIMA” which is the highest accreditation given to a CIMA teaching institution in the world. Wisdom is one of the first few business schools in the country to be certified with the ISO 9001:2008 standard, in recognition of its superlative quality management system.
As Wisdom Business Academy is celebrating its 15thanniversary, Wisdom has taken its direction to cross another important milestone by signing up an exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with the CIMA official publisher, KAPLAN – UK in order to make the official CIMA learning material and revision facilities available to Wisdom students as a part of their course material. This has given a huge advantage for the students at Wisdom and the performances itself speaks for its value. Wisdom and Kaplan exclusive agreement is one of its kind and probably a first in the world where two giants in the CIMA fraternity join hands together.
The Chairman of Wisdom Mr. Theo Soumyraj stated: “The main focus of Wisdom has been coaching students for the CIMA qualification, and with our 15th anniversary we have entered into an exclusive partnership with ‘KAPLAN – UK’ who is CIMA’s official content provider, through which our students will receive the original CIMA learning resources to build the level of confidence and success rate at exams. These steps by Wisdom are rightly aligned with Wisdom’s mission ‘ Building Competencies – Changing Lives’”.
Kaplan Publishing is a leading provider of accountancy study materials worldwide. As the official author and publisher of the CIMA study texts, Kaplan Publishing has exclusive access to CIMA’s examiners and senior academic advisers and all the study material is developed in close consultation with the examining team. As such, its materials are up-to-date and closely aligned with the CIMA syllabus and exams. Kaplan Publishing, through its authorized sole agent for the region Mercury Institute of Management, provides the complete suite of Kaplan study materialfor CIMA exams including official study texts, exam practice kits and revision cards for the Certificate, Operational, Managerial and Strategic levels.
Brenda Loring, Head of Sales and Customer Service at Kaplan Publishing stated, “Partnering with an equal standing institution like Wisdom is indeed a milestone, and we are very excited about partnering with Wisdom, who also has a successful history of teaching CIMA for the past 15 years, instrumental in training management accountants. We look forward to our collaboration, and would like to congratulate Wisdom for 15 years of making the difference to many students’ lives.”