UCL Monash Graduation Ceremony 2019
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- Valedictorian – Ravisha Wellappulli
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- The Dean of Academic Affairs, UCL, Dr Dhananjay Kulkarni, Addressing the Graduation gathering
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- Salutatorian – Shannon Perera
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- Group Photo
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- Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chairman Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and Corporate Executive Vice President & Regional Chief Executive – South Asia at Axiata Group Addressing the Graduation gathering
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- Diplomas Global award for achieving the highest results in respective programme across all Monash Partners Worldwide – Tuan Mohamed Azmir Buhar
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- Completed the Monash College Diploma in Business Dion Dias, UCL Football Captian & Former Head Prefect & Triple Coloursman of S. Thomas College
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- Ceremonial Welcome of the Chief Guests & the Academic Procession
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- Ceremonial lighting of the Oil Lamp by Malaysian High Commission, Minister Counsellor, Mr. Ismail Mohamad Bkri
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- Ceremonial lighting of the Oil Lamp by Dr. Harsha Alles, Chairman of Gateway College – Director UCL
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- Ceremonial lighting of the Oil Lamp by Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka H.E. David Holly
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- CEO, UCL Mr. Gihan Silva, Addressing the Graduation gathering
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- Awarding token of Appreciation Award to Malaysian High Commission, Minister Counsellor, Mr. Ismail Mohamad Bkri by Dr. Harsha Alles, Chairman of Gateway College – Director UCL
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- Awarding token of Appreciation Award to Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka His Excellency David Holly by Dr. Harsha Alles, Chairman of Gateway College – Director UCL
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- 3rd Award – Shaveen Ilapperuma
Universal College Lanka (UCL), Sri Lanka’s premier transnational higher education institute held its annual UCL Monash Graduation Ceremony on a grandeur manner at the Waters Edge recently.
Held for the third successive year, the Graduating Class of 2018/ 2019 comprised of 276 students who successfully completed the Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY) and the Monash College Diploma (MCD) at UCL. Among them was Azmir Buhar who secured the prestigious Monash Diplomas Global Award 2018/ 2019 for Engineering, outperforming fellow students across all Monash providers internationally. Three of them from this cohort dazzled with brilliance to gain entry for the first time to the Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine degree at Monash University. Overall, this Graduating Class of 2018/ 2019 achieved academic excellence to garner a record haul of 123 Monash Global Awards of Excellence during the last year.
Ravisha Wellappulli, a past pupil of Devi Balika Vidyalaya, who commenced her Monash journey at UCL by joining the Monash University Foundation Year and then progressed to the Monash College Diploma, emerged as the Valedictorian at the UCL Graduation 2019.
Winning 5 Global Awards of Excellence in the process, she had the rare privilege of securing a generous scholarship to gain entry to the second year of the Bachelor of Commerce degree at Monash University Australia. Monash College Diplomas Global Award winner Azmir Buhar and Global Awards of Excellence winner and co- host of the ceremony Shannon Perera were joint Salutatorians, whilst All rounder and Sports Coordinator of the UCL Student Council Shaveen Ilapperuma was the 3rd Award Winner.
Having an uncompromising commitment to achieve and maintain stringent international standards and a higher quality of higher education in Sri Lanka, UCL possesses a highly qualified and competent faculty among private tertiary education institutes in the country, enabling it to achieve academic excellence and offer its students a superior learning experience in a caring environment. It is also unique that the Programme Coordinators of the Monash College Diploma and the Monash University Foundation Year, are both Monash Alumni. This has contributed significantly towards their quest of producing “Monash- ready” undergraduates to excel in a world class university.
The UCL Graduation Ceremony 2019 was graced by the presence of Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka His Excellency David Holly as Chief Guest, Minister Counsellor of the Malaysian High Commission Ismail Mohamad Bkri as Guest of Honour, Chairman Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and Group Executive Vice President and Regional CEO for South Asia of the Axiata Group Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya as Keynote Speaker and Guest of Honour, Director UCL and Chairman Gateway Group of Organisations Dr. Harsha Alles, CEO UCL Mr. Gihan Silva and Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Dhananjay Kulkarni along with the faculty, management and staff of UCL.
UCL holds the unique distinction of being the only transnational higher education institute in Sri Lanka to afford the opportunity for ambitious students to pursue their tertiary education in a World’s Top 100 University, by providing a guaranteed pathway to the prestigious Monash University through its exclusive partnership with Monash College, wholly owned by Monash University, Australia.