Next Campus partners Birmingham City Uni, UK

By Shehana Dain

Next Campus Sri Lanka has collaborated with Birmingham City University (BCU) UK to offer three internationally-renowned Masters Degree programs enabling professionals to improve their careers.

The Masters Degree Programs that were launched on Monday concentrated on three particularly important sectors in the current Sri Lankan economy that is, MBA Business Administration, MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management and MSc Project Management. The programs are practical and connected to the current corporate arena.

The synergy between the two education renderers primarily focused on what the potential MBA and MSc holders have to offer for the developing socioeconomic landscape in the country. Above all the contribution young talent can place on for the economic development.

BCU Vice Chancellor Cliff Allan said: “According to ADB Sri Lanka is on a growth spree and will continue to do so in 2016 as well. It’s a simple equation, a rapidly growing economy need people with business and scientific process skills which would enable them to expand skills of entrepreneurship and of management strategy. It crucially needs inspirational leaders if Sri Lanka is going to maintain its economic growth.”

BSU takes pride of a rich heritage of over 150 years and offers state-of-the-art university experience. The University offers education for 22,500 students from 80 countries. The academia is continually investing to deliver the best university experience for students. Their degree programs are accredited with professional qualifications while CIM, CIMA and ACCA are a few.

Next Campus has been in the Sri Lankan education industry for seven years and has evolved to be a pioneer in offering executive education. They have collaborated with over eight internationally-renowned universities adding diverse educational qualifications into their product portfolio.

Next Campus revolves around four main pillars. They cover ground in accessibility while focusing on flexible time tables for professionals, secondly experience, Next promises to provide a true BCU experience.  The third aspect is quality coaching from industry practitioners and finally the most important aspect for the Campus which is affordability. 

According to Next Campus Director Dusty Alahakoon, the fastest way to grow is to tie up with the best so we can bring cutting edge skill development, and that it was a fundamental rationale to go ahead with the partnership.

“Asia is taking off and it’s a very exciting place to be. During the last one year we have had a notable change in our political and social life. Now people are demanding for more quality and they want to a part of a success story. People are talking about winning the economic war. None of this will happen unless we improve our productivity and skill levels because we are fighting with the global competition. At next we want to build professional leaders for tomorrow,” Alahakoon stressed.

Speaking at the event, Allan highlighted that BCU is different from the rest because study material are delivered by professional experts rather than academic experts.

“Our partnership is about developing the importance of learning, of working tirelessly to provide a hot house for helping young people’s talent develop.  We share a shared vision to transform the prospects of our students through the delivery of excellent higher education which are informed most importantly by professionally experienced tutors,” he noted.