Being in the forefront of tertiary education in Sri Lanka, ANC Education will be sponsoring the EDEX Expo as a Platinum Sponsor for 2012. This is the 2nd successive year that ANC Education became a Platinum Category Sponsor of EDEX Expo.
Established in 2002 with the vision to be the first choice in tertiary education in Sri Lanka, ANC Education flourished into Sri Lanka’s market leader for private education. ANC Education is the country’s only establishment offering the full spectrum of education programmes from pre-school to university courses. These programmes are offered through 4 education units: Modern Montessori International (MMI), Wycherly International School, ANC Education and NetAssist International.
 Through its motto of “education without borders”, ANC Education allows young people to benefit from higher education in some of the best universities in the world and some other most popular study destinations in the world. ANC Education offers young people a choice of following degree programmes in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Malaysia through its university transfer programme or by studying for the degree completion programme in Sri Lanka.
ANC Education has become the leading education centre in the region. Approximately 10% of the total student population are international students coming from countries including India, Maldives, South Korea, China and Europe.
“We are proud to be in partnership with 16 academic universities. Six of these, Monash, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Missouri S&T and Northwood are ranked in the world’s top 200 universities as per Times Higher Education 2011” states Dr. Punarjeeva Karunanayake, CEO of ANC Education.
ANC Education is the only place in Sri Lanka that offers accredited American university degree completion programs, including such as International Business, Finance, Management, Marketing, Pre Medicine, Bio Medical Science, Psychology and Computer Science & IT.
“We also offer University Foundation Year Programme (after O/levels) which is equivalent to A/level qualification. The Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY) has been specifically tailored to guarantee entry to Monash and other leading Australian and British universities” says Dr. Punarjeeva Karunanayake.
The Executive Development Programme at ANC Education offers two unique programmes - The Executive Bachelor of Business Administration (EBBA) degree and Certification Courses from Northwood University. The EBBA is a 1 year programme designed for individuals who have partial professional qualification in CIMA/CIM/ABE/ICASL.
“The EBBA degree is aimed at those with a minimum of 3 years work experience, aged 23 years or above. Further, all classes will be held on weekday evenings/weekends” explained
Dr Karunanayake.
“ANC Education employs experienced and highly qualified local and foreign lecturers. Nearly 70% of the ANC Education faculty holds doctorates from overseas universities and the degree programmes taught at ANC Education are monitored by partner universities. To ensure Sri Lankan students receive the same quality of education, even the latest teaching technologies are adopted” states Dr. Upali Mampitiya, Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of ANC Education.
Housed in 2 modern multi-storey buildings with a total of 70, 000 square feet, the campus can accommodate 2,000 students and the entire building has WiFi enabled hot zones. It has 30 air-conditioned lecture rooms which are Blackboard enabled, computer laboratories, a library and resource center with approximately 5,000 volumes of traditional hard-copy books and virtual volumes on CD. All ANC Education students have access to respective partner university’s online learning resources.
Speaking about the partnership with EDEX, Dr. Karunanayake stated, “ANC has been a 7 year participant at EDEX and the relationship has been getting stronger. EDEX has the largest and best established educational exhibition in the Country, therefore it attracts quality students from Local and London examination bases”, he concluded.
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