(MENAFN – Colombo Gazette) robust> The primary registered undergraduate of BCI Campus, inducted by His Excellency the President
His excellency the president, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa paid a particular go to to BCI Campus, Negombo (Benedict XVI Catholic Institute) on Friday the fifteenth of January 2021 on invitation of His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, The Archbishop of Colombo. The occasion was carried out underneath strict well being protocols and was attended by a restricted viewers amongst which have been His Eminence ; the Archbishop of Colombo , Rector of BCI ; Rev. Fr. Quintus Fernando ,Professor G L Peiris, Honorable Minister of Schooling , Mr. Prasanna Ranatunga,Hon. Minister of Tourism,(Dr.) Nalaka Godahewa, Hon. State Minister – City Improvement, Coast Conservation, Waste Disposal, and Public Sanitation, Dr Sudharshini Fernandopulle, Hon. State Minister of Major Well being Care, Epidemics and COVID Illness Management, Mr. Nimal Lanza, Hon State Minister – Rural Roads and different Infrastructure Improvement, Chief Air Marshal Roshan Gunatileke, Honorable Governor of the Western Province, Prof Kapila Perera, Secretary to the Ministry of Schooling, Prof Sampath Amaratunga, Chairman of the College Grants Fee and Prof Sudantha Liyanage, Vice-Chancellor of the College of Sri Jayewardenepura, Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri, Chairman/Director – Board of Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Administration (PIM) and member of BCI Educational Council together with a number of different dignitaries.
Welcoming the distinguished gathering Rev. Father Quintus Fernando; Rector of BCI, mentioned ‘BCI Campus was established 6 years in the past with a holistic and Distinctive strategy to greater training. Our emphasis is just not restricted to growing graduates which might be business prepared, armed with data and ability, however we aspire to make BCI Campus a breeding floor for well-disciplined, humanely nurtured, and accountable residents. We ‘Aspire to Encourage’ our college students to turn out to be professionals who possess educational data and ability units, while additionally mentoring them to claim their dignity and integrity as true human beings’. The reverend father additionally drew particular consideration to the invaluable help His Excellency Gotabaya Rajapaksa has rendered to BCI, through the years. Particular point out was made to His Excellency’s involvement in expediting the reconstruction and renovation work of BCI in 2015 because the campus ready to welcome His Holiness Pope Francis who visited BCI throughout his go to to Sri Lanka.
Talking on the occasion, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith who drew consideration to the innumerable efforts of the Catholic Church to offer a sound training to kids and youth the world over, acknowledged that ‘training as we speak isn’t just a matter of mastering science and know-how solely, but in addition, and rather more, a matter of aiding an adolescent to grasp life itself. So, Institutes of upper studying shouldn’t be a lot revenue making as a lot as academies of ethical and non secular formation for the youth’.
The spotlight of the night was the undergraduate induction, the place His Excellency the President was invited to formally induct the BCI’s inaugural cohort of undergraduates by presenting them with letters of enrollment at a easy ceremony. BCI Campus was granted the diploma awarding standing by the Ministry of Schooling in late 2020 and introduced their new diploma programmes at a media briefing held on the thirtieth November on the Archbishop’s Home in Colombo.
His Excellency the President, addressing the gathering acknowledged that ‘For our financial system to develop, significantly within the new regular atmosphere, a skilled, energetic workforce with the suitable sense of dignity of labour is important in order that we might obtain accelerated improvement.’ His excellency additional went on to commend BCI for the service it has rendered to the nation’s training over the previous few years and gave particular point out to the historic position performed by the Catholic Church in educating the youth of this nation by way of its island-wide community of faculties since Colonial occasions.
Subsequent to the formalities, a tree planting ceremony was carried out on the location of Proposed Inexperienced Courtroom to commemorate this important milestone, within the annals of historical past of BCI Campus.
BCI Campus has been providing a number of greater training programmes in English, IT, and Skilled {Qualifications} and has served properly over 17,200 college students since its inception six years in the past. From this 12 months onwards the campus has opened alternatives for undergraduate research the place college students can now register for the next 4 12 months honours undergraduate diploma programmes within the domains of Enterprise Administration and Data Know-how.
- Enterprise Administration – BBM (Hons)
- Data Know-how – BSc. (Hons)
BCI Campus focuses on offering college students with extra than simply educational alternatives because the institute is devoted to shaping well-rounded, accountable, educated, assured, and moral people that may excel anyplace on the planet at their chosen vocation, and be accountable residents. To perform this BCI is staffed by a crew of extremely acclaimed training professionals, with a few years of expertise and a dedication to instructing that goes properly past the classroom. They’re complemented by a crew of help employees who guarantee completely environment friendly operations.
Trendy services of the campus present the scholars all of the instruments, know-how, and assets they should succeed. In actual fact, the buildings and environment are designed to offer a conducive atmosphere for studying, fellowship, and wellbeing. The campus gives a world-class facility, which is endowed with attractive pure gardens and contains loads of greenery. This in flip ensures a locality with the suitable ambiance, which inspires a mindset open to data and promotes private progress.
A go to to the campus may also present the scholars a chance to expertise the college’s complete, purpose-built, services, and facilities which incorporate state-of-the-art know-how and the serene inexperienced environment splendid for studying. As enrolment of scholars for these programmes has commenced, college students in addition to dad and mom are invited to go to BCI for additional data or initiation.
College students and fogeys can even receive extra data through […] or calling the campus on 031 2035100 / 070 6035100
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