Sri Lankan university’s officials on familiarisation visit |23 August 2016

Two senior officials from the University of Vocational Technology of Sri Lanka will be undertaking a familiarisation visit at the Seychelles Institute for Technology at the invitation of the Ministry of Education.

The two officials are Dr Don Suraweera, the Dean of the Faculty of Industrial and Vocational Technology, and Pinnawale Jayathilaka, head of the Electrical and Electronics Department at the University of Vocational Technology of Sri Lanka.

The familiarisation visit is being undertaken within the context of the ‘Education Medium-Term Strategy’ to establish strategic partnership between national and international institutions of higher learning to further promote the quality of national tertiary education and training system.

The main objective of this familiarisation visit is for the Seychelles Institute for Technology (SIT) and the University of Vocational Technology to identify areas for future cooperation.

A key dimension of this visit will be the presentation on and tour of the Sit which will take place this morning, followed by discussion with the members of the Sit governing board.

During the week the delegation will meet senior officials from the Ministry of Education and also key partners of the Sit.

This mission is a follow-up of the official visit that the Minister for Education, Macsuzy Mondon, had in Sri Lanka in 2014 whereby she visited a number of educational institutions of higher learning and where the University of Vocational Technology was identified as a possible partner for cooperation with the Sit.