Head of ICFAI Education Lanka at the convocation:

Converting challenges into opportunities

The Head of ICFAI Education Lanka Mrs. R. Goonetilleke delivering the welcome address at the convocation of ICFAI said that there is a basic difference in thinking, setting goals, strategy formulation, and achieving the targets of a successful person and a less successful person. Being positive or negative.

The Head of ICFAI Education Lanka Mrs. R. Goonetilleke delivering the welcome address

She said that the students, have the potential to excel and she firmly believes that the graduating students have the capacity to convert the new challenges into opportunities. The coming years will be more challenging due to global economic recession and increasing pressure on systematic development.

A total of 200 MBA, BBA and BSc IT students received their certificates at the convocation of ICFAI Education Lanka (IEL) the Sri Lankan campus of the ICFAI University India held at BMICH recently. The chief guest on the occasion was Dr. G.P. Srivastava, the Vice Chancellor of the ICFAI University - Dehradun, Uttarakhannd in India. K.V. Iyer, the Head of International Division of ICFAI Head Office India, Mangala Munasinghe, the Chairman of the Governing Council of ICFAI Education Lanka, other member of the Governing council and members of the Academic council of IEL participated as special guests at the convocation.

Mrs. Goonetilleke's opinion is that the education imparted at the university fulfills only a part in the life of the students career and life. The students will have to develop the sense of responsibility to care for their families, to contribute to the improvement of the organizations and the development of the country.

ICFAI India is a 'non for profit' organization and are fully involved in all facets of education offering degree and other professional programs, publishing books, magazines in management and other disciplines, case study material etc.

This University is committed to develop leaders capable of making decisions in a complex global environment and who are dedicated to serve their companies, society and humanity and it imparts education with a vision 'MERITUM ETHICUS' implying Merit with Ethics and with a Mission 'Learning for Leadership'. IEL caters to a student population of about 500 offering undergraduate programs as well as postgraduate programs. The undergraduate programs offered by the IEL are Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and the BSC in Information Technology while at postgraduate level the programs offered are the In-campus Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the Distance Learning MBA program as well as the Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) and the Certified Treasury Manager (CTM) programs.

International head of Operations ICFAI K.V. Iyer said that they have over 300,000 students in India. The ICFAI head office is at Hyderabad while there are eight university campuses and 75 DLP centres in India. All the centres operate under the Indian University Grants Commission rules and regulations and offer undergraduate and postgraduate study courses.

ICFAI has already established their branches in Dubai, Australia, UK in addition to Sri Lanka. He said plans to establish campuses in Switzerland, New Zealand, UAE and USA are on hold due to the global economic slow down and said that they will go ahead as soon as things settle down. She said that with the restructuring of operations IEL has taken steps to increase the attention on their MBA programs. ICFAI university degree programs offered by IEL is highly recognized MBA program in Sri Lanka maintaining high quality academic standards.