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Nekela educational services launched by Don Asoka Wijewardena Nekela International Trading Company (Pvt) Ltd in collaboration with its Indian and Netherlands partners launched "Nekela educational services" (NES) in Sri Lanka on Thursday. Nekela International Trading company Director W. Sunil Fernando told a press conference at the Galle Face Hotel, that the Board of Directors of the company was extremely happy to establish an institution of educational significance in Sri Lanka despite the fact that the company's main business was the coir industry. He said that students would be able to get language cum cross cultural training in Arabic, Japanese, French, German, Danish, English and Dutch while training in other languages could be provided on request. Fernando said that the establishment of the Nekela educational services in Sri Lanka was the brainchild of Evert van Wageningen who was the head of the NES. The courses of the NES were focused on teaching languages, cross cultural training, translation services, management and marketing services and company financing services, he said. Referring to the additional courses introduced Fernando said that training on leadership and interpersonal relations, problem identification and solving, planning and decision making and time management and other related functions, oral and written expression and imagination and analyse thinking would be introduced shortly. NES Head Evert van Wageningen said that it was absolutely necessary to obtain a sound knowledge of foreign languages in this era of globalisation as the only way one national differed from another in Europe would be through its cultural heritage and the language he or she spoke. Wageningen also said that almost all companies in the 21st century should
adopt an integrated action program in "lifelong learning" which would
undoubtedly lead to an enterprise's productivity and profitability either in
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