Your life after A/L’s 2017 – Seminar on Quality Higher Education & Career Prospects
In the month of September, your stress and distress caused by the GCE Advanced Level examination is finally seeing its end; you’re up for the next biggest and most important challenge of your life: selecting a suitable career. Ending 13 years of education, you’re now at a crucial juncture of your life where you have to give in serious thought as to how you’d wish to carry out the next 30 to 40 years of your life.
A seminar on “Your life after A/L’s 2017 – Seminar on Quality Higher Education & Career Prospects” organized by KIU and studentlanka. com in collaboration of Young Biologists Association will be held on Thursday, 7 September 2017 at Sakya Institute, Nugegoda from 2.30 pm – 5pm.
www.studentlanka.com, oldest and most popular Educational Website in Sri Lanka which stared in 2007 has identified seven types of Higher educational institutes and degree options which offer free, low cost, Moderate- cost or high cost degrees: State Universities, External Degrees, Open University, Private Sri Lankan Degrees accepted by UCG, Professional Institutes, Educational Institutes affiliated to foreign Universities and Study abroad options. Prof Hiran Amarasekera, Lead Editor of www.studentlanka. com will discuss on Employment and Higher Study Options that are available to you after A/L’S that would surely broaden your outlook regarding your future. Various pathways that you can take to pursue further education, earn degree, a post- graduate or even a professional qualification, or if you would prefer to go straight into fulltime employment will be explored at this presentation. Ed
You will get to know that Private Higher Educational Institutes in Sri Lanka offer wide range of career pathways, such as Engineering, BioMedical Science, Physical science, Management, Marketing, Accountancy, HR, IT, Computing, Software, Law, Design, Travel, Tourism, Aviation, technical study fields, Architecture or Media.
Biomedical Science is a dynamic field, which has a high demand in the world. With the developing technology, medical field is also improving rapidly. Biomedical Scientists are the key professionals that contribute to the advancement of the medical field. Prof Neluka Fernando, Honorary Vice- Chancellor, Kaatsu International (KIU) will introduce you to the field of Biomedical Science, an exciting new field with great opportunity for a challenging career.
A BSc. Hons in Biomedical Science degree which has the recognition from the government of Sri Lanka and in Private sector will qualify you to work as a scientist in any of the following fields Medical Microbiology Clinical Biochemistry Haematology Histopatholog Molecular Biology Food and Water microbiology In a world where everything is a competition, finding satisfying job is always a challenging task. Mrs. Chathurika Tennakoon, Career Adviser at University of Sri Jayewardenepura will talk on Skills and Qualities needed to Find a Great Job. Skills such as communication, team working, leadership, and CV writing and “How to sell yourself” at an Job interview will be explored.
Students who have completed their A/L examination and their parents are invited to attend this seminar on Next Thursday to gather accurate and unbiased information on selection of degrees, courses and careers after GCE A/L Examination. Prof Hiran Amarasekera Lead Editor, www.studentlanka. com Educational Network
Ganakumaran Subramaniam is the Head of School and Professor at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. He is the President of the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association and Vice President of Asia TEFL. He holds a B.Ed. in TESL from University Putra Malaysia. He read for his Master’s and Ph.D. at the University of