SLF ties up with NCE’s National Institute of Exports
Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:17
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Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF), which has now been transformed into the national centre for leadership, education and training, comes under the purview of the Presidential Secretariat and is managed by a Board of Management. For over four decades SLF has been the premier institution for leadership, education and training and has contributed to the overall national development of the country.
Due to expansion in the educational activities, in order to be more focused with the varied subjects, seven main units have been identified as follows: Social and Institutional Development Unit, Business and Enterprise Development unit, Psychology and Counseling Unit, Digital Film Academy, Language and ICT Unit, Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit and Centre for wellbeing.
The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka (NCE) is the only private sector chamber which exclusively serves Sri Lankan exporters and is the ‘Voice of the Exporter’. Incorporated in 1994, the National Institute of Exports (NIOE) started by NCE for the educational and the training aspect of the NCE members and acts as a subsidiary of NCE, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), SLF bonds with the NIOE as a partner organisation with the NCE.
Signing of the MOU between NIOE and SLF took place at the SLF premises on 18 August, with the participation of key officials of SLF, NIOE and NCE. Via this MOU it is expected to contribute towards enhancement of management and operational competencies towards the development and implementation of collaborative programs to study in exports and imports management.
The courses designed will be qualified export specialist certificate course, qualified export specialist advance certificate, qualified export specialist diploma, qualified export specialist higher diploma.
This collaboration moreover develops links between industry and the academia, and promotes research and industry links and networks amongst local and foreign academics and professionals.
This would impact on Sri Lanka’s journey of empowering education among diverse entrepreneur community to become a world’s leading hub for trade mentioned in the ‘Pancha Bala Kendra’ (five power centres) which is included in the ‘Mahinda Chinthana’ vision for future envisaged by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
