Cranfield MBA presents scholarship

The world renowned Cranfield School of Management in the UK will present a scholarship to any member of the three leading IFAC accountancy bodies in Sri Lanka, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (ICASL) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Branch (CIMA).

Full Time MBA Program Director Sean Rickard said, "We hope the scholarship attracts candidates who will benefit from this initiative and that, with the help of the accounting bodies in Sri Lanka, it will raise Cranfield's profile.

We are extremely grateful for the support of the institutes in this. We will be reviewing the success of the program after two years."

ACCA Sri Lanka's Immediate Past President, Dilshan Rodrigo, himself an alumni of the Cranfield School of Management said, "I hope most sincerely that this initiative will signal the birth of a new generation of professional skilled managers who will add value to the corporate boardrooms of Sri Lanka.

This one-year full time program is ideally suited for members in middle and senior management positions with ambitious career goals."

Rodrigo, who has continued to maintain ties with Cranfield, further reinforced the relationship once he became President of ACCA Sri Lanka, sourcing resource speakers for the ACCA National Conferences in the last two years.

Two people who played significant roles in mooting this scholarship from Cranfield are the former Director of the MBA Program Prof.

Leo Murray who was the keynote speaker at the conference in 2006 and has a soft spot for Sri Lankans and Sri Sriskanthan, a Sri Lankan faculty member on the MBA program.