Sri Lankans excel at APIIT convocation

Seventy one students who successfully completed their degree programmes in computing, business information technology and business administration were awarded degrees of the Staffordshire University, UK at the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology's (APIIT) Sri Lanka Convocation - 2007 held at the BMICH recently.

Prof. Peter Reynolds of the Staffordshire University who chaired the Convocation and awarded the degrees commended the outstanding results achieved by Sri Lanka APIIT students when he pointed out that around 25% of students had obtained first class honours passes.

The CEO of APIIT Sri Lanka, Dr. Athula Pitigala-Arachchi, in his address, stated that he is proud of the great strides the organization has made in the recent past; he said that APIIT has emerged as the indisputable leader in the private higher education sector and attributed this success to consistent upholding of high standards and quality of education programmes.

"Today, unlike in the past, higher education is an international enterprise. There are two facets to the internationalisation of higher education. On one hand, millions of students cross national borders each year in search of higher education opportunities.

On the other hand, we see education programmes crossing borders in search of students; leading universities in the world take their programmes out of home countries and into regions where there is a growing demand for higher education.

APIIT - Sri Lanka is involved in both these aspects of international education. With the support of our international partners, APIIT in Malaysia and Staffordshire University in the UK, we bring high quality degree programmes into Sri Lanka; at the same time, we assist our students to transfer to foreign universities", elaborated Dr. Pitigala-Arachchi.