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Second cut-off list unlikely for top colleges in Delhi

Second cut-off list unlikely for top colleges in Delhi

There is almost no hope of a second list for many coveted courses in the best colleges of Delhi University. Wednesday, Day Two of admissions, saw most courses being completely filled with a few colleges forced to over-admit students across all streams. Hindu College, which declared the highest cut-off this year, had over-admissions for many [...]

Rivil International at Future Minds Expo 2012

Rivil International at Future Minds Expo 2012

Rivil International Education Consultant is proud to take part in the Future Minds Education Expo 2012 which was held at BMICH on 22, 23 and 24 of June 2012 organized by the Nalanda Junior Old Boy’s Association. Large number of parents, students who were seeking higher education options in foreign countries were amongst the crowd. [...]

12month MBA at Oxford College of Business, where dreams are made into a reality

12month MBA at Oxford College of Business, where dreams are made into a reality

Applying for the 12month MBA at Oxford College of Business (OCB) in affiliation with the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) has always been the No.1 choice amongst many senior managers deciding to start on an MBA program. One of the main reasons for this is because businesses worldwide rate Australia’s MBA programs highly, it also [...]

Graduating Interior Design to Architecture – AOD Interior Designer Amodha Rathnayake

Graduating Interior Design to Architecture – AOD Interior Designer Amodha Rathnayake

Sri Lanka has produced some incredibly talented architects, including the internationally acclaimed legend Geoffery Bawa, establishing a thriving architectural industry in the island. The newly emerging interior design industry is now fast becoming the design/creative counterpart of the local architectural business. Amodha Rathnayake, an interior design graduate of AOD (Academy of Design) is a young [...]

Zahira goes from strength to strength

Zahira goes from strength to strength

The very first Muslim School in Sri Lanka, Zahira College, Colombo was founded in 1892 as Al Madrasathul Zahira by two of the most prominent Sri Lankan Muslims of that time, namely I.L.M. Abdul Azeez and Arasi Marikar Wapchie Marikar who were both encouraged by Ahamed Orabi Pasha, a prominent Egyptian who was exiled in [...]

Brand Guru of Sri Lanka Hashan Travis Haputhanthri concurs Pakistan..!

Brand Guru of Sri Lanka Hashan Travis Haputhanthri concurs Pakistan..!

One of the Sri Lanka’s  successful Marketing / Brand strategist and Tactician and by the words of the Marketing industry “Sri Lanka’s Brand Guru” Mr. Hashan Travis Haputhanthri had his presentation for his philosophy called “TRAVIS BRANDSOLOGY” in Pakistan . Hashan was summoned to present his philosophy at   Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU). MAJU was [...]

PIBT – Creating Competent IT Professionals

PIBT – Creating Competent IT Professionals

Recently, a survey conducted by New York Times revealed that the IT industry is now amongst the top four dominating global industries. Its rapid growth is mainly due to the high demand for the use of Information Technology and the perspective of employees in the IT field. The main reasons for growth of the IT [...]

Academic and IT – Professional Qualification

Together with (BTEC EDEXCEL HND with Microsoft, Oracle Java, MySQL, Cisco, Linux Certification) NetAssist International is a Gold Certified Partner for learning Microsoft and Oracle in Sri Lanka and affiliated with Edexcel International. Edexcel International is a Pearson company, which is the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to more [...]

Team Blaze from University of Kelaniya wins the CIMA Sri Lanka Global Business Challenge

Team Blaze from University of Kelaniya wins the CIMA Sri Lanka Global Business Challenge

Six months of anxiety, preparation and hard work, all came to a climax when 4 teams from the original 53 that entered the competition battled it out for the title of country winner in Sri Lanka. The winners would go on to represent Sri Lanka at the global finals of the CIMA Global Business Challenge [...]

MSU your University of choice

MSU your University of choice

The Management & Science University (MSU) is one of Malaysia’s top universities.  As a university of choice MSU focuses strongly in the critical areas of studies that encompass medicine, health and life sciences, nursing, pharmacy, business, management, accounting, hospitality, law, information sciences and engineering. MSU gives priority to quality education and the importance of creative [...]

Gain a competitive edge in your profession, with a business degree from ACBT

Founded in 1998, The Australian College of Business and Technology (ACBT) is a renowned international business school, offering top quality degrees with a history of designing innovative and industry-relevant programmes. By combining professional qualifications with academic degrees, ACBT gives students the strongest possible foundation for success in any business environment. Their groundbreaking programmes bring together [...]

Australia has reduced skilled migration passmark

Is it a real change? This change is probably one of the unexpected changes, after a complete overhaul of the General Skill Migration (GSM) Program. From July 1, the cutoff mark, so called the passmark will be 60 points. Since the migration legislations were changed in July 2011, applicants were required to score 65 points [...]

American Degrees from the ACHE

American Degrees from the ACHE

Every parent wants to give his/her child the best possible chance to make something of their future and in today’s world there are so many options, some purposeful and the others simply a claim without substance. With all the advertising and hype around various institutions how do parents know what’s best? What better way to [...]

MBA a fast track to CIMA

Completing an MBA is one way of fast tracking towards the world acclaimed professional qualification in business management CIMA. CIMA, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK has introduced an innovative fast-track route for MBA holders to become CIMA qualified – the CIMA Masters Gateway assessment. This fast track route is a unique offering from the [...]

AUSTRALIA: A Global Leader for International Students

Australia is an increasingly popular study destination with international students from across the globe. For many students, Australia may represent a better study destination than other popular alternatives A welcoming place to live Apart from being a great place to get a first rate education, Australia is also a fantastic place to live. It provides [...]

Scholarships Team welcomed by Study Illinois

Scholarships Team welcomed by Study Illinois

Sri Lanka’s best known student recruiters in US Priyanthi and Padmasena Dissanayake of Scholarships for USA (Pvt) Ltd (www.scholarshipsforusa.com) currently  visiting the State of Illinois looking for suitable partners recently held discussions with Dino Pruccoli 2012 Chair of Study Illinois. Study Illinois is the non-profit Illinois International Education Consortium dedicated to welcoming international students to Illinois. [...]

D.S. Senanayake College implements new education reforms

Mr. D.M.D. Dissanayake principal of D.S. Senanayake College Colombo-07 says that, under the new education reforms, the Aim of education is to make a future generation with integrated personality, student centered and activity oriented skills. The present new education reforms hopes to produce talented students and not merely certificate carriers when leaving school. The teachers [...]

Top Up Degrees from University of Ballarat Australia

Top Up Degrees from University of Ballarat Australia

Get your Australian Bachelor Degrees right here in Colombo- Why go elsewhere? The University of Ballarat  is the 1st Australian University (running courses after ”A” levels till Post Graduation in Sri Lanka), UB has been operating its own state-of-the-art Colombo Campus at 502, R.A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 3, in association with ATMC. UB has [...]

Boost for CA Sri Lanka as John Keells Holdings renews lead sponsorship for 2012

Boost for CA Sri Lanka as John Keells Holdings renews lead sponsorship for 2012

The country’s foremost accounting organization, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) received a tremendous boost recently when Sri Lanka’s leading conglomerate, John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) joined hands once again to renew its sponsorship for the year 2012. As a lead sponsor, JKH supports the Institute’s diverse activities including its [...]

Imperial Institute of Hospitality and Leisure offers qualifications from the Institute of Hospitality UK

Imperial Institute of Hospitality and Leisure offers qualifications from the Institute of Hospitality UK

Sri-Lanka has been designated as one of the top tourist destinations, and certainly with the atmosphere of peace and tranquility Sri-Lanka has experienced a significant growth in the hospitality industry. This also calls for an increased demand for hoteliers with international qualifications. It has been identified that Sri-Lanka’s hospitality and leisure sector is a key [...]

Faris Ismail appointed as an advisory council member of the World Education Congress (WEC)

Faris Ismail appointed as an advisory council member of the World Education Congress (WEC)

“The most important quest in business is to create and foster human connections. How will you choose to face the challenges in the year ahead? Facing challenges alone is difficult.  The professional network and training that WEC can provide to participants creates a pool of knowledge that will add value for all professionals” – says [...]

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