ATC enters into a Strategic Partnership with SLF

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The Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), Sri Lanka’s leading learning centre for ICT entered into a strategic partnership with the Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF), the centre for leadership, education and training in Sri Lanka.

SLF, functioning under the Presidential Secretariat is dedicated to provide its services by conducting a number of leadership, education and training programs in the areas of improving knowledge, skills and attitudes, through innovative, participatory and high quality methods of teaching.

This strategic partnership will further consolidate the position of both institutions as an example of private-public sector partnerships in Sri Lanka.

SLF Chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara stated that SLF is ready to expand its horizons to multiple dimensions in education. Keeping in line with national ICT trends, ICT is driven towards creating a new platform with new initiatives. He is also of the view that this tie-up is a new chapter in the transformation of the landscape of SLF at the time it marks 40 years.

ATC Director/CEO Kapila Ranasinghe, driven with new initiatives stated that with this unique and strategic partnership with SLF, stated that ATC will deliver the latest ICT programs required by various industries together with hands-on experience in order to produce efficient ICT professionals to face the growing challenges of the future.

ATC, renowned for its impeccable quality standards of ICT programs offers international certification from some of the best foreign universities, certifying bodies, institutions, professional societies and IT vendors.

Its panel of experienced lecturers with industry exposure and proven track records conducts modern ICT programs for all the fields to suit dynamic requirements. The specially designed range of programs at ATC suit students immediately after A/Ls, non-IT professionals as well as IT professionals who seek further professional qualifications.

Some of the programs designed to improve the ICT knowledge of non-professionals include IT for doctors, IT for lawyers, IT for engineers and IT for teachers and other professions.

ATC is the modern ICT arm of a three-member group of educational institutes, comprising a business academy, city campus for MSc, BSc programs and a growing software firm. SLF which has emerged as the centre for leadership, education and training in Sri Lanka was established in 1974 consequent to an agreement between the SLF and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

The SLF was incorporated by an act of Parliament. The SLF functions under the purview of the Presidential secretariat of Sri Lanka and is managed by a Board. All its study programs are accredited by the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission.