In brief

Leaves for Toronto

Sirimal Pieris, Team Manager of Eagle Insurance PLC, Colombo left for Canada to attend the (MDRT) Million Dollar Round Table Conference from June 22-26 Ontario, Toronto.

He is participating as the present Chairperson of Eagle Field Managers’ Association for the first time in its history.

Kids’ fun day at Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank’s head office was transformed into a kids’ zone, as 65 staff members children visited the Bank to get a first hand experience of their parents’ work life.

Greeted at the door by the Bank’s Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) Committee the youngsters streamed up to the Learning Centre, where food, fun and activity awaited them.

Touring the floors of Standard Chartered Bank the children experienced what it is actually like to work at a bank. They had the opportunity to look at the bank vault, try on head phones at the call centre and watch as credit cards were embossed and they finally trooped into the Learning Centre where activities and learning programs had been organised for them.

Workshop on Sustainability Reporting

ACCA Sri Lanka in conjunction with Smart Media and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) will conduct a one day workshop on Sustainability Reporting on July 10 at the Hilton Residencies.

The workshop is being conducted for selected participants and will give an in-depth understanding of ways to tackle this seemingly daunting task with practical advice and sharing of knowledge on the methodology of compiling and presenting a good Sustainability Report.

The workshop is targeted at the senior most person who is finally responsible for producing the company’s Sustainability Report.

The workshop will serve to raise the standard of Sustainability Reporting considerably, thereby making the ACCA (Sri Lanka) awards in this field more competitive.

ACCA runs the most prestigious jury-based Sustainability Reporting Awards schemes in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.

Trends on Customer behaviour

Rohit Talwar will explore critical trends and developments shaping the future and highlight the opportunities they create for entrepreneurs in his inaugural address at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit on July 1.

He will highlight what’s next on the horizon, examine the powerful social and environmental trends that will drive customer behaviour and explore tomorrow’s breakthrough technologies.

Rohit will describe how these trends will affect business and how changes will need to be made in existing business models and strategies to respond to the opportunities.

He will highlight where to look for new ideas and examine what conventional businesses can learn from social entrepreneurs and the growing number of successful social ventures.

Wickramashila College makes headway

Wickramashila College of Higher Education (Pvt) Ltd., at Yatawatta, Matale holds regular classes to prepare and train students for Public Examinations conducted by Sri Lankan, London, Cambridge and Indian Universities.

The college provides elementary care for Sinhala medium students to switch to the English medium.

A spokesman for the College said that the college develops knowledge and skills to meet social challenges and educational opportunities of children and adults needed for the twenty-first century society within the framework of national values.

The founder of the college is Dr. Priyantha Wimalasiri. After his graduation, he worked as a principal and a teacher in Sri Lanka.

Having passed the MA and PhD Degree examinations, he worked in the fields of education, socio-culture and marketing in Sri Lanka, UK, West Germany, India and the UAE.

A program is under way to award scholarships annually for the most brilliant students who are economically backward in the country to continue higher studies in the English medium irrespective of religious and racial considerations.