EDUCATION
Janashakthi partners Future Minds Higher Education, career
exhibition
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Janashakthi stall |
Leading Insurer, Janashakthi partnered the 8th Future Minds
exposition in a bid to encourage future leaders of the country to choose
a soild education path. The Future Minds higher educational exhibition
enables school leavers and students to choose a best suited higher
educational option. Dr Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Fisheries and
Aquatic Resources Development ceremoniously declared opened this year's
exposition. This time Future Minds 2013 is being held in Colombo, Kandy
and Galle.
Prakash Schaffter, Managing Director of Janashakthi said, “Future
Minds is the most dynamic education exhibition in Sri Lanka, which
provides a platform for both educational institutes and students. As a
company that operates in an intensely price competitive market, we
believe in human talent management and harnessing their potential to
keep our human talent abreast of latest products and developments.
Therefore, we truly understand and desire to support initiatives such as
this to mould strong and competent future leaders.”
Future Minds provides a single platform on which, students can
interact with Higher Educational and Tertiary Educational Institutes,
both State and Private and make well-informed choices about their Career
Development. The exposition featured ‘Future Minds Talent Tank’,
competition for school children, which focused on discovering the next
generation of creative minds. “We have taken a huge amount of interest
in improving our manpower and training.
We are annually spending as much as Rs.60 million now on training.
People are sent to USA to Japan, UK, Dubai, Vietnam and Singapore to
sharpen up their professional skills. On top of that, we have a training
department with a team of full time trainers and a calendar of
activities all year round. As a responsible local company, we like to
extend the same support that we give our employees to the country's
future generation. Future Minds is the ideal platform to extend our
support in an effective manner.” said Shehara De Silva, Genral Manager,
Sales and Marketing, Janashakthi. |