CA Sri Lanka strengthens partnership with teaching colleges

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In a fresh initiative aimed at strengthening partnerships with various stakeholders, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka), in its capacity as a leading tertiary education provider in the country, recently recognised several prominent teaching colleges for their invaluable service offered by providing tuition to thousands of students following CA Sri Lanka’s globally recognised qualification. A total of 11 teaching colleges were awarded certificates by the institute for conducting tuition for strategic level and certificate level students IBA Campus, Institute for Accounting Studies, Jayasekera Management Centre Ltd. and Knowledge Base Business Studies Ltd. were recognised under the strategic and certificate levels, while Harvard Business School, Institute of Professional Management, Jaffna College Undergraduate Department, Kalmunai Business School, Minka Business School, Sipwin Institute and the First Kandiyan International Ltd. were awarded CA Sri Lanka certificates under certificate level. CA Sri Lanka President Sujeewa Rajapakse noted that the primary objective of recognizing the teaching colleges is to further strengthen the ties shared between the institute and the tuition colleges for a more mutually beneficial future, which will also ensure in a skilled and professionally qualified workforce for the country. “In ensuring that this objective becomes a reality, CA Sri Lanka has launched a fresh initiative aimed at registering teaching colleges which deliver lectures on the CA programme for the benefit of our mammoth student base counting to over 41,000 scattered across various parts of Sri Lanka.   This new initiative will provide benefits and support to teaching colleges and lecturers in delivering lectures which will ultimately help improve the students’ performance,” he emphasised. The CA Education process is a four way process which includes a relevant and globally recognised curriculum, class room lectures, Internship and examinations. Chief Executive Officer of CA Sri Lanka Aruna Alwis explained that CA Sri Lanka has consistently endeavoured towards ensuring that all our stakeholders are provided with the best of services and facilities at all times, and therefore the recognition of teaching colleges is also one such important step in this continuing endeavour. “Today we witnessed some of the country’s leading teaching colleges being recognised by our institute. This is the first step in a long and very rewarding partnership,” he pledged.

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