MMBL Cyberskills launches ACL English program

MMBL Cyberskills (Pvt) Ltd. together with the Australian Education and Training Services (AETS) and the Australian Centre for Learning (ACL) launched the ACL English Program on Wednesday in Colombo.

MMBL Cyberskills, a BOI approved IT training institute will coordinate the English Training Program which is primarily to assist the students of the rural community who have no access to proper English education, MMBL Cyberskills Managing Director, Sunimal Weerasooriya said.

Weerasooriya said one of the main reasons for the growing unemployment rate is the lack of good communication skills in the international language. Students who have graduated from universities or have completed the GCE (A/L) are not conversant in English.

The ability to communicate properly is vital for students to find employment. Very often students fail at interviews since they could hardly speak a sentence properly. Therefore, it is important to inculcate the ability to speak English well, he said.

IT and English are two vital skills that employers look for in candidates seeking jobs. Though training in IT is widely available practical English language training seems to be non-existent especially in the outstations.

It is to impart practical English communications skills that we decided to offer training courses for students in remote areas to develop their knowledge and speech.

ACL offers three main categories of courses, namely general English for academic purposes and an IETS course focusing on speaking, listening, reading, writing and grammar.