The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) is to support Sri Lanka-US Educational counsellor Priyanthi Dissanayake in her mission to attract American institutes of higher education, to set up offsite campuses in Sri Lanka, with a seminar this October.
“Priyanthi’s ultimate goal of making Sri Lanka the next Malaysia with a view of setting up offsite campuses in Sri Lanka is very compatible with BOI’s own vision of turning the country into a Centre of Knowledge Excellence,” said Shivan de Silva, the BOI’s Executive Director of Promotions and Mega Projects. He added that the BOI also plans to use the good offices of Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Washington DC to ensure that the largest number of participants would attend the seminar and workshop from October 8 to 1o.
Starting in 2001 with placing her own daughter at a hardly known small private liberal arts school in Minnesota with an extremely generous financial aid package and realizing the value of American education through her progress, Ms Dissanayake focused on becoming a connector to hundreds more who lacked ability to secure admissions with desired financial aid, to a US school by themselves.
Today her beneficiaries are around 150 (including doctoral candidates) from widest geographic locations across the island.
Some of her early students have earned PhDs from elite universities in US and those who chose career paths have already become national accounts managers of US companies heading the Fortune 500 list.
Others have topped academics and extra curricular activities, going on to receive prestigious post-graduate grants that allow independent travel and exploration. |
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