Seminar for Commerce students at Zahira College

Texts and pix: Ruzaik Farook

Chairperson of the Commerce Society Afzar Arham addressing the gathering

Ishan Zain presents a memento to Prof Danny Attapattu. Rizmi Rashan looks on Teachers and students of various schools

A successful seminar for students in the Commerce stream was conducted at N D H Abdul Gaffoor Hall of Zahira College recently.

More than 750 students from 25 leading schools were invited and attended this seminar.

It was conducted by Senior Prof Danny Attapattu of Ruhunu University, Matara. Prof Attapattu is well known as an author, writer and lecturer of Economics and has contributed greatly for the development of this subject.

This programme was sponsored by CIMA (UK) and Mindventures Business Academy. It was organized by the Commerce Society of Zahira College under the joint leadership of students Afzar Arham and M Ishan Zain.

When interviewed they said, "This was our maiden effort and we intend to have more of such informative and educational programmes annually for the benefit of our commerce students."

Zahira College Principal Mohamed Jiffrey, Deputy Principal Rizvi Marikkar and teachers were also present at the seminar.