Hilfswerk Austria awards three schols

Hilfswerk Austria awarded three scholarships to students of the Sri Lanka Institute of Hotel Management (SLITHM) to follow a nine-month Teacher Training program in Austria.

The students who will leave for Austria in September will be attached to one of the best institutes - the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (ITH), Salzburg.

Once they complete the training they will be attached to the SLITHM as Assistant Lecturers.

This is the second year Hilfswerk has offered scholarships to train lecturers in Austria. Hilfswerk Country Manager David Mangala said "our focus in this tourism program is to build capacity in the tourism educational sector." We have also initiated the re-structuring of the old hotel school curriculum of five years to a three-year diploma course with the cooperation of ITH and SLITHM.

Principal of SLITHM Kamal Hapuwatta said that ITH is assisting them to develop the curriculum to cater to the needs of the vibrant and fast developing sector in the world, tourism. SLITHM also launched a three-year hospitality development program in February. Hilfswerk Austria is an International non governmental organisation.