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General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University :
Making professionals for the Tri-Services
The General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy
was established in 1981 and elevated to a University in 1986. More
than 1,600 undergraduate and 140 postgraduate degrees have been
awarded by General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU)
during the past 28 years. KDU offers nine undergraduate degree
programs in Defence Studies and related Post Graduate Degrees. Among
them, five degree programs lead to Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in
Engineering, namely Mechanical, Marine, Electrical and Electronic,
Civil and Aeronautical Engineering.
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Management and culture:
The Asian way
When a new manager walks into an office,
management norms appear music that can be fiddled anywhere. Yet,
leading script-writers of tunes in the West were to discover that
the violins had to play sweet harmony for bankers who had bought up
the work of innovators such as Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison.
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Back home again!
They used to hide when they hear the drone of a
helicopter or an aircraft just a few months back. But today they
come out in the open and keep waving at an aircraft or even vehicles
on the road. These children born in an era of an armed conflict, had
witnessed the cruelty of the terrorist regime that robbed the people
of the North and East of their most valuable wealth – children - to
carry guns instead of pens, pencils and books.
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