The need to prepare to face emerging employment trends
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- Suriya Bibile, Territory Manager
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- Premila Paulraj, Regional Director
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- Jane Baker, Director Higher Education
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- ESOFT Platinum Partner
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- Suriya Bibile, Territory Manager
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- CSCT Silver Partner
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- CINEC Centre with the Highest Growth
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- CINEC Performance Excellence Award.jpg
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- BCAS Gold Partner
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- AMDT Performance Excellence Award
Pearson Higher Education Forum 2019
Focusing on Employment Trends and the need to prepare learners to face the emerging skills requirements was the objective at this year’s Pearson Higher Education Forum. The topic which is a key area of interest and a point of debate across industry and educators was discussed during the Pearson Higher Education Forum 2019 stemming from the keynote speech delivered by DushanSoza, Managing Director BPM One Private Limited. Sharing some of the most up to date statistics, Dushan stressed on the need for educators and authorities to take a critical approach towards preparing the youth to face tomorrow’s ‘work-place’ challenges. Making her opening remarks PremilaPaulraj, Regional Director of Pearson shared the strategic direction taken by Pearson in the region to address the critical need to prepare learners to face the emerging employment trends in the next 3-5 years and the digitization of learning tools and platforms. Director Higher Education, Pearson UK Jane Baker in her presentation also emphasized that Pearson in its recent redevelopment of the portfolio of Higher National programmes have built in modules to address the required skills and continue to work closely with industry and educators to support learners through the BTEC suite.
Attended by some of leading higher education institutions in Sri Lanka and BTEC Centres at the Hilton Colombo on 9th September 2019, the evening also saw the recognition of top performing Pearson BTEC higher education centres in the country. ESOFT received the ‘Platinum Partner’ for the year 2018 award while the British College of Applied Studies (BCAS) was recognized as the ‘Gold Partner’ for 2018. The ‘Silver Partner’ of 2018 was secured by the Colombo School of Construction Technology (CSCT). Academy of Multimedia and Design Technology (AMDT) and the Colombo International Nautical College (CINEC) were presented with ‘Performance Excellence’ awards. CINEC also received the award for the centre with the ‘Highest Growth’.