British HC H.E. John Rankin visits Northumbria/AOD International Design Campus
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British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, H. E. John Rankin and British Council country director for Sri Lanka Tony Reilly visited the state-of-the-art AOD International Design Campus that offers UK’s prestigious Northumbria University School of Design Degrees. This visit by British HC H. E. John Rankin and British Council SL director Tony Reilly to the campus consolidated the thriving educational relationship of the world design hub – UK with Sri Lanka, with the establishment of Northumbria University Design degrees in the island.
Northumbria University is a prestigious British campus with a legacy of nearly 170 years and ranked among the top 5 design academia in Europe. Northumbria also has some of world’s top designers of current times, graduating through their UK campus; Sir Jonathan Ive –design chief of Apple for iPad, iPod, iPhone and iMac, Time Brown of award winning IDEO, Nicola Morgan of world famous fashion brand Givenchy and Warren Trezevant behind the animations of record breaking Pixar movies such as ‘Finding Nemo’.
Left to Right – Linda Speldewinde, founder/managing director of AOD International Design Campus, British Council country director for Sri Lanka Tony Reilly, Principal of Northumbria University Design degrees at AOD international design campus, Karen MacLeod and British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, H. E. John Rankin
In 2009, an independent Approval Panel nominated by Northumbria with UK QA, evaluated AOD International Design Campus’ faculty qualifications, teaching standards, campus facilities and vision and established it to be in par with Northumbria University School of Design UK. Building on this success, AOD International Design Campus is offering identical design education delivered by Northumbria in the UK, in Sri Lanka, taught by a 100% international faculty within state-of-the-art campus facilities. The campus is equipped with high-tech Apple i-Mac lab with the latest Apple computers and accompanying software with access to some cutting-edge online sites in the field of design and trends like WGSN and TukaTech under exclusive access codes for the campus students. The campus facility is entirely WI-FI enabled and equipped with a comprehensive design library, lecture theatres, design studios and an auditorium etc.
Principal of Northumbria University Design degrees at AOD international design campus, Karen MacLeod commented; “With students having these international prospects right here at home, with the option to transfer abroad or complete the entire degree in Sri Lanka, this advanced campus marks a momentous step in establishing Sri Lanka as a regional education hub as per the vision of the Government of Sri Lanka.”There is now a greater chance for young designers to become globally accepted designers with a professional license to work anywhere in the world.
This international campus offers design degrees in (BA (Hons) Fashion, Interior Design and Graphic Design and is launching two brand new degrees in Fashion Marketing and Motion Graphics & Animation Design to Sri Lanka and admissions are now open. To find out more about Northumbria University School of Design international degrees in Sri Lanka at AOD International Design Campus, call Shirmi on 0775980141, visit the campus at 29, Lauries road, Colombo 4 between 9am and 5p on weekdays, or log on to www.aod.lk.
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