Higher education breaks new ground with NSBM

Athapattu BANDARA

Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma and Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena laid the foundation stone to construct a State-of-the-Art education complex, the National School of Business Management (NSBM), the degree awarding institution of NIBM, at Pitipana Homagama yesterday.

This will be constructed at a cost of Rs. six billion as a modern university structure, in 26 acres of land and will start operations in 2014.

The NSBM will deliver a quality higher education to Sri Lankan youth to make the government's bid of making Sri Lanka a knowledge hub in the South Asian Region, a reality.

The NSBM has planned to construct the university to house 20.000 students and will be equipped with residential and sports facilities to compete with any other quality university in the region.

The NSBM will produce graduate and post graduate professionals in the fields of Management, Computing and Engineering with a vision of becoming the most preferred business school in South Asia. The courses of the NSBM will be designed to take the students through an academic and professional development process to produce employable graduates. Youth Affairs and Skills Development Deputy Minister Duminda Dissanayake, university representatives and foreign delegations attended the ceremony.