“Thousands of children are denied access to education each year which is an unacceptable hedge against our country’s future. The fact that we’re a leading software company benefitting daily from the knowledge economy only accentuates our resolve to do something,” said Dimuthu Nilanka – Chairman of the 2018 CSR Committee at ISM APAC It’s not news that the Sri ...
It’s no secret that for a country to develop and be known for innovation requires investment in education. That requires not only in providing facilities but also investing in training teachers to help prepare their students for the future. This is what the Global Tutor APEX Workshop for Teachers aimed to do. The focus of the workshop was to ...
A few months after announcing MSc degree programs in Cyber Security and Forensics Master’s program, Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) recently held its first-ever annual convocation of the Robert Gordon University, UK (RGU). Degrees were conferred to students who had successfully completed the Master of Science Big Data Analytics of RGU. Prof. Kay Cooper and Prof. Nirmalie Wiratunga of ...
Humans are intelligent creatures. For proof, one only needs to look at what human civilization has accomplished throughout history. However, intelligence isn’t a single unified trait. Intelligence isn’t simply, “being knowledgeable.” This is what Global Tutor aims to share at their upcoming APEX Workshop for Teachers. What is the APEX Workshop for Teachers? Previously, we’ve seen Global Tutor hosts ...
It’s certainly a mystery egg for the majority of the paper markers at Sri Lankan Examinations. Simply because, while marking they have to witness contradictory performances of students in the local education system, in the MCQ Paper and Paper II. After years of comprehensive surveillance, the Examination department recently decided to mix the sequence of the questions in the ...
As a step to mounting their contemporary eminence, IIT has launched the institute’s first Cyber Security and Forensics Master’s program, awarded from the University of Westminster, UK. The course has been designed with a high degree of relevance to the industry’s needs. By nature the course is practitioner oriented and it provides highly marketable Computer Security and Digital Forensics ...
Hailing from their parent company in Europe, the ISM e-Group, ISM APAC was one that was set up back in 2014. The company essentially develops and builds e-commerce platforms. They also help maintain them for their clients as well. ISM APAC uses e-commerce platforms such as Magento and Shopify and also has their own in-house e-commerce solution called Sana. ...
The World Health Organization has officially classified “sustained gaming behaviors” as a mental disorder. WHO included the disorder into the Diagnostic handbook and confirmed this proposition after a series of debates over whether gaming disorder ‘was really a disorder’. Somehow it proved to be true. What brings to my surprise is how long it took for experts, to recognize the ...
The Informatics Institute of Technology, or better known as IIT, is hosting an Open Day next week. The idea is to give prospective students a glimpse into what IIT has to offer. Visitors will get to see firsthand what life at IIT is like. Here, you would have the opportunity to take a look at the campus, talk to current ...
The Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) has become the first institute in Sri Lanka to offer degree programs, accredited by the British Computer Society. Right now, the IIT offers 4 such degree programs. These degrees will be in collaboration with the University of Westminister. BSc/BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering BSc (Hons) in Computer Science BSc (Hons) in Business Information Systems ...
After much anticipation, the Big Bad Wolf finally returned to Sri Lanka. All you bookworms out there can now get lost amidst the mountains of books. The vast hive of books has already got the readers swarming at the SLECC. But one might wonder, is it really worth the effort? Well, here’s a closer look. The not-so-exclusive preview day A ...
The Sri Lankan education system isn’t perfect. It needs reforms in critical areas. Yet, this hasn’t stopped curious minds from being fascinated and wanting to learn more about it. That’s why Global Tutor facilitated the visit of a delegation from the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce Nakano Ward group. The purpose of the delegation’s visit was to gain insights into the ...
The first investment in Sri Lanka by Fairfield Holdings took place during the end of the month of May 2018. It was with none other than the Alethea group Sri Lanka. This collaboration is portrayed as coming together as one of the oldest private schools in Sri Lanka and Investment Company Fairfield Holdings. The central emphasis of the investment is ...
Organized by the Mozilla Campus Club of Uva Wellassa University Sri Lanka, Codezilla, the open source product development inter-university hackathon was concluded on 16th of June 2018. In case you were wondering what a Mozilla Campus Club is To quote Mozilla itself, “Mozilla’s mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. A ...
We all love traveling. Whether its conquering Alagalla or simply a train ride through the mountains, traveling is a favorite past time for most of us. But instead of leisure, imagine traveling for a cause. Imagine traveling across Sri Lanka by foot for almost 3 months, all to get a message across. That’s exactly what Nivendra Uduman, Sara Nazoor, and Ranil Thilakaratne ...
Sri Lanka is a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) with an approximate per capita income of 3900 USD. But on the other hand, Sri Lanka demonstrates characteristics similar to Upper- Income Countries (UIC) as well. Low birth rate (1.6 %) and low annual population growth (0.92 %) recorded are close to what’s observed in UIC’s such as Turkey and Brazil. ...
The two books namely ‘Defining a 21st-century education’ (Craig d. Jerald, 2009) and ‘Curriculum 21’ (Heidi Hayes Jacobs, 2010) bring out the international developments with regards to education and curriculums. Authors of the books state that “it is necessary to prepare the students for a changing world in the next few years by upgrading the school curriculum”. It identifies five ...
The British Council Library recently opened its doors once again for the public. If the new tagline, it all happens here is any indication, the library will no doubt continue its popularity among the folk as one of Colombo’s favorite hive for the arts. “When we were revamping the library we gave serious consideration to this question – what does a ...
As we all know, the local curriculum is the ‘pre-packaged’ course that ensures a minimum knowledge base for all students across the country. However, it is well known that our curriculum failed to incorporate the three core requirements of learning, initiatives, creativity, and flexibility respectively. Availability of an unattractive syllabus, poor teaching, and overloaded school curriculum appears to be the ...
Books, books, and stacks of books. This was what visitors to the SLECC were treated to last October. It looks like coming June will be something similar. That’s right. The Big Bad Wolf is back. So all you book fanatics, fill up your wallets and get ready for the BBW sale. The return of the wolf Anybody who made to ...
