Psychology is a valuable and reliable source of knowledge about human behaviour. Not only does it offer a fascinating body of findings and knowledge about human behaviour, it also provides a way of looking at the world- and ourselves. Psychology is important as it is concerned with the study of behaviour and mental processes and at the same time, it is also applied to many different aspects of human life. Everything we perform is very much related to or with psychology. It primarily studies who and what we are, why we behave, act and think the way we do and what we could be as a person. Horizon Campus, Malabe offers various courses in Psychology.

Horizon Campus was established in the year 2009 with the vision to impart quality education for aspirants who wanted to face life with contentment. Horizon Campus has the official recognition from the Government of Sri Lanka as an institute approved by the Board of Investment (BoI).

The Campus is established by the visionary leadership of Mr. Upul Daranagama (MBA, B.SC (Acc.FM), FABE, Dip.in HRM) CEO of Horizon Campus who believes in education. He is the founder of Horizon College International, which has become very popular within a short span of two years because of the quality and the discipline he believed and adopted. It is his firm belief and faith “our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource”; hence the campus is established to educate people. At Horizon Campus education is given from Kindergarten to Postgraduation.

The Campus is situated among the beautiful outskirts of Malabe just 10 kms away from Colombo. It has an atmosphere quite congenial for studies and inviting a living away from the buzz of the town. Horizon Campus is built with all modern amenities as the CEO believes that education should meet modern changes and challenges; hence the building is equipped with all modern facilities like classrooms with WIFI, Laboratories, Library, WIFI enabled Lecture halls, Conference halls, Computer laboratories with internet facility for the students, cafeteria, table tennis, basketball court etc.

Horizon Campus has taken the international syllabus from the well-known university, Karnataka State Open University, India through i-Nurture, one of the leading educational solutions Pvt. Ltd from Bangalore, adding a feather to their cap. The certifying body for the courses run at the campus is KSOU which is a world renowned university from India.

Horizon Campus has an experienced and well qualified staff from India and Sri Lanka who are endowed with the finest qualities of head and heart. Dr.R.M Premaratne (PhD, M. Phil,PGDE, BA(Ceylon) formerly the Head of the Dept. of Early Childhood Education and Senior Lecturer Dept. of Education Open University of Sri Lanka and also the visiting lecturer of University of Colombo, is the Head of the Department of Education at Horizon Campus.

Ms. Amara Amarasinghe Former Principal of Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya, Consultant Sarvodaya and UNICEF, Mrs. Pushpa S. K. Dassanayake, Former Service Advisor of Sri Jayawardanepura Educational Zone and Lecturer of English at the Teachers’ College, Maharagama are some of the faculty at the Campus.

Prof. Madhusoodan MSc. (Psychology) from India is the Head of the Department of Psychology, Mr. Biju Mathew (MSc Psychology) Mrs. Dhaniya Madhusoodan (MSc. Psychology) are the lecturers for Psychology from India.

Mr. Ganji Nagesh (Msc. B.Ed. M.Ed) is the faculty for Education from India.

Programmes offered | Dept. of Psychology

The vision of the Dept. of Psychology is to promote high academic standards by creating an optimal and enriching learning environment, fostering ongoing professional and personal development and contributing effectively to societal needs. The department in the campus runs programmes that include BSc Psychology for three years and MSc. Psychology for two years. Diploma in Psychology one year and Advanced Diploma in Psychology for two years. Through these programmes the Campus encourages students to consider career and life missions that integrate psychological understanding to life. The Dept. realizes its vision to promote high academic standards through a continuous and dynamic curriculum review process based on feedback from students, professionals and potential employers. A variety of students’ centered teaching and training pedagogies are practised by the faculty members. Prominent among them are the use of seminar experimental methodologies, laboratory training fields based studies and interaction with experts.

Dept. of Education

Horizon Campus offers courses which are challenging as well as the most demanding fields now and in future days to come. Under the Dept. of Education, the Campus offers Bachelor of Education for three years, Diploma in Pre-School Education for two years, Diploma in Teaching (Secondary Education) for two years, keeping in mind the huge demand for trained teachers for schools in the future. The objective is to make teachers aware of the unique problems faced by children with reading difficulties and/or learning disabilities with regular classroom teaching.

The Campus provides classroom management techniques, instructional strategies, and other such material that equip teachers to meet the requirements of an inclusive classroom, exposing teachers to instructional strategies supported by scientific study, to improve teaching quality. To achieve this we have both infrastructure and human resources in the Campus which are set up with a vision of providing quality education to the students and to join in nation building through knowledge.

Karnataka State Open University

Karnataka State Open University plays a significant role in promoting the desired growth of higher education through Open-Distance Learning system (ODL). Any country will be a super power only when it achieves the targeted growth of higher education, which is possible by the intervention of open and distance learning. The University having a strong genesis of the Institute of Correspondence Course and Continuing Course and Continuing Education (ICC&CE), a pioneer in the Asian continent, was established in 1996 under the state enactment – KSOU Act 1992.

As lucidly inscribed in its motto “Higher Education to Everyone Everywhere,” KSOU is evolving the strategies to reach the door-steps of the students not only in the state of Karnataka but also within the country and abroad. For this purpose, KSOU has established regional centres in the country and abroad. The course offered by the Campus is affiliated to KSOU. The professional and vocational orientation, the flexibility in choice of courses will definitely match with the needs of the students and teachers for tomorrow capable of mingling with the needs of the 21st century. So come and join us for a better tomorrow.

Applications are invited for the second batch for the above programmes at Horizon Campus.