Periods of change are significant in building up the future. The current paradigm shift from tertiary education to secondary education, in the unconscious psyches of around 250 000 students in the island is the key period in which the right decisions have to be made.
However there are certain specific aspects which needed to be considered before making any decision on the higher education paradox.
Earning a first degree is one of the long term ventures in the academic career of any student. Moreover, earning a bachelor qualification in the late teens or early twenties is another challenge for Sri Lankan students, due to the long steady education system of the country. Obtaining an internationally recognized qualification, while living with their families is an obvious impossibility. Apart from this, knocking on the doors of the professional world, while reading for a degree, is another emerging need of a modern Sri Lankan youth.
A solution which could meet the above specific requirements would be the best option for the students. However, innovation has taken up the role of compensating necessity in the present information era. The International Foundation Programme (IFP) caters to the role of fitting the above requirements of students by allowing a certain, flexible and fast track coupled with international recognition and professional focus. The IFP focuses on enhancing the cognitive, analytical, interpretative, and communication skills along with the improvement of students' learning skills.
Singapore Informatics Computer Institute (SICI), being the pioneer in private education, offers the above programme to match the ultimate requirements of students who have completed their O/Ls shortly. On the other hand, selecting the conventional track has a minimum probability of being admitted to the state universities due to the limited capacity of state universities in acquiring enough students annually, and the subsequent competition which transformed the A/L studies itself as a challenging journey towards an uncertain destination.
The students who take up a bold decision of shifting from conventional to an innovative track at this juncture, either directly after their O/Ls or simultaneously with their A/Ls will enjoy certain distinct advantages. Especially, they would have almost conferred with their degree programmes offered by the University of Portsmouth, UK, while their colleagues enrol into a conventional university degree programme after a long two to three year struggle with the A/L. Hence, students who enrol at Singapore Informatics would be able to get their degrees in their early teens and complete the programme by the early twenties. Evidently, two of our world prize winners Ashana and Achini, are reading for their degrees at the age of eighteen and nineteen. Ashana is now reading for her BSc (Hons) Technology Management & Computing degree offered by the University of Portsmouth, while Achini has progressed to her Advanced Diploma. Ashana says "I have joined for the IFP just after the completion of my O/Ls and have now started the final year at nineteen years.
The Singapore Informatics programmes allow students to enter the course immediately after the completion of their O/Ls or A/Ls. Students who join with A/Ls could directly enrol into the first year of the degree programme. Students who start with O/Ls could go through the International Foundation Programme (IFP) which will train them with all the necessary skills required to proceed with the Bachelor's degree. Special focus on improving students' English language proficiency, critical thinking and learning skills is the uniqueness of Singapore Informatics IFP. The successful completion of IFP will match the gap of A/L and enable them to enrol into an International diploma which is on par with the first year of a British Degree programme.
The Director / General Manager of Singapore Informatics, Mr. Boshan Dayaratne states "The academic panel of Singapore Informatics consists of experts. Apart from the panel of full time lecturers, there are a number of visiting lecturers working with Singapore Informatics. Also plans are emerging to organize an Academic Council which would advise the institution on creating syllabi that conforms to the requirements of the corporate sector.
In addition to this, Singapore Informatics shares, academic and infrastructural resources with the eighty eight branch centres of Informatics Academy located across the world. Evidently, the former Academic Head of our Institute has been promoted as the Faculty Head of Informatics Global Campus (IGC), while the accounting and managerial professionals from the Cooperate Headquarters (CHQ) are working with our local centre for the last couple of months." It is remarkable that the Informatics Global Campus consists of more than 218 sub centres and subsidiaries of Informatics Academy, spread across the world.
"On top of all the above advantages, Singapore Informatics pleasurably offers its global programmes with a local price, which could be afforded by an average Sri Lankan parent. While there is a strong emphasis on profitability by other private education institutions in the country we are focusing on the quality of education and co-operate social responsibility which aims to groom global thought leaders with a substantial emphasis on universal values." indicated Mr. Boshan Dayaratne, Director / General Manager of Singapore Informatics Computer Institute.
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