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Mustard Seed: Marketing Article for ICBT (First, but not the last time my name appears in Srilankan media)

Mustard Seed: Marketing Article for ICBT

International College of Buisness and Technology, Srilanka

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091011/Education/ed18.html

Marketing Article for ICBT (First, but not the last time my name appears in Srilankan media)

Increasing the scope of careers in childcare

For the first time in Sri Lanka ICBT City Campus, Bambalapitiya offers BTec Higher National Diploma in Advanced Practice in work with children and families .

This Edexcel UK qualification is an eighteen month programme especially for all involved in childcare professions. AMI Diploma and A level graduates now have a chance to develop a range of skills and techniques essential for success in childcare career.

Addressing the need to give a multidisciplinary training in leadership, quality assurance and management in the early year's sector, ICBT offers this unique programme that encourages students to think critically about theoretical and practical issues concerned with the education and care of children.


This Higher National Diploma in Advanced Practice in work with children and families focuses on providing education and training for a range of careers in the early year's sector. School Administrators, parents and other professionals in the early years sector will have this opportunity to achieve an internationally recognized qualification, which may be used as a qualification for migration and greater employment opportunities in many countries around the world including UK.


The Higher National Diploma in Advanced Practice in work with children and families is a vocationally specific qualification, resulting in UK National Qualification Framework level 5 Certification. It is an opportunity for those wishing to enter into employment as well as for those who wish to advance academically.

This education and training will improve the skills and effectiveness of the early years workforce and provide advanced training for those who work with children and their families.

ICBT provides quality training, culminating in UK qualifications at a fraction of the cost it would take to do it in UK. As the leading Edexcel provider in Sri Lanka it has been awarded A grade approval for five consecutive years as well as ISO 9001:2001 certification.



This programme is conducted by a highly qualified panel of experienced academics and industry experts. Apart from the knowledge and experience of work with children and families gained from employment and this training, you will also develop additional effective transferable skills, such as writing skills, group working, leadership, communication, giving presentations and IT.

This training is for professionals working in the public sector, voluntary organizations and privately funded institutions to support the welfare and care of children, young people and families.


The HND is a recognized 'stand alone' qualification, and there is also a progression path to a B.A. in Early Childhood Studies. There are many recession proof Career Opportunities in health services, children charities, and preschool education, even for those interested in living outside Sri Lanka, this will provide the qualification to work in this highly regulated profession.

The teaching technique includes group lectures, which will outline knowledge and concepts specific to the module, and workshops where activities will create a link between theory and practice. Presentations, role play, group and individual research are other methods used to optimize the learning experience.


With more than ten years experience in the educational sector, ICBT is positioned to offer training in Social Care and education which are among the largest employment sectors in the world today, a field where opportunities are buoyant.


For further information regarding this programme, please contact ICBT City Campus hotline: 011-4869999 .


By Maryanne

Lecturer - ICBT City Campus

Phoenix on the Rise Again...

The time has come to die again.
To cast myself on the pyre and burn again.
It hurts to break up then build again,
But its harder to stay still,
chained to chance and pain again.

The advantages of being Broke!

Becoming broke does have its unique gains.

What you lose in the material sense can be replaced by other worth while things.
All over Asia, monks give up worldly pursuits to train their minds for a higher calling.
Not everyone has the ability or will to walk away from life and become a hermit. However we can all learn a thing or two during financial contraints.

So what happens when your down on your luck?



1. The most important thing is, you learn who your true pals are. The fair weather ones just fall out of touch (conviniently), You also might become uncomfortable with the people you used to know, back then when there were no money problems.



2. You learn to appreciate the non monetary aspect of your life, things like your health, your childs smile, or a hug from a loved one, a setting sun, a full moon...



3.You find cheaper ways to do things, DIY becomes inevitable when you dont have the dough to dole out. Even shopping becomes a challenging experience to differenciate between your wants and needs.



4. You waste less when you have little



5. There is nothing as humbling as lack! arrogance and pride falls with the fat pay check.



6. Empathy for others in similar situations is embedded in your mind forever, you will know what its like and if and when things improve, you will understand the plight of others in similar situations.


Click here to read about Someone who choses to live without spending money

Bridge2Peace Srilanka

http://www.bridge2peace.org/

Lunugamvehera, a remote village near the Southern coastal town of Hambantota in Srilanka is where the first Bridge2Peace Montessori begins its mission.

Completely on volunteer bases, Bernadine, Lysiel and Tharanga are Montessori teachers who have for the past three years, committed their time to the vision of Bridge2Peace. They train young women to be qualified to care for preschool children as well as continuously monitor their performance to ensure the quality of education is not compromised.

Bernadine Anderson the Founder of the Bridge2Peace initiative promotes Maria Montessori’s Peace education. The Peace curriculum which she has adapted for the preschool programme in Lunugamvehera is a benchmark for making peace education a part of the educational system.
Since its inception three years ago, 60 children have graduated from the Montessori while the first Batch of preschool teachers have been trained in providing quality child care, comparable to any preschool in urban Srilanka.

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Bridge 2 Peace Sri Lanka

In 2004, after the Tsunami hit the shores of Sri Lanka, many well meaning Nations and individuals committed time and money to projects, many of which have been abandoned or mismanaged.

Living in Srilanka, has given me the opportunity to meet three incredible women who are dedicated to helping rural communities in war torn, Tsunami ravaged , rural Srilanka.
Their steadfast commitment to helping the poor has been a source of inspiration to me. Notwithstanding our racial differences, the common thread of our humanity binds us to a cause we believe in working for despite our own personal challenges.

Bridge2peace is one of the NGOs still working consistently to better the lives of the poor in Rural Sri Lanka, by providing free quality preschool education to the poor in rural Sri Lanka.

Bridge2Peace goes beyond the band wagon of the tsunami relief efforts and puts in place a model of education that will remove ethnic segregation which has been a major cause of division among the people of Srilanka.

Through an education in a trilingual medium of English, Sinhala and Tamil, Bridge2Peace creates a community that embraces unity in a Country recovering from over two decades of civil war.

Bridge2Peace Sri Lanka has built a school in Lunugamverahera, which provides quality teacher training and free Montessori education for the poor in the area.

Though i have been here only about a year now, I at once connected with the mission and have committed my time contributing in whatever way I can.

Volunteering for me, is not something I choose to do, it’s something I am compelled to do; driven by an incomprehensible force, I have over the years been drawn to doing what I can to make a difference in the lives of children. Suffering youngsters stir in me the desire to give my widows mite, from cuddling HIV positive babies to providing children’s books for an orphanage library.

Coming from a part of the world where any non religious affiliated charity work is viewed with suspicion, volunteering comes with its own unique stigma, ranging from being considered a fraud, to being ridiculed for having a ‘Mother Theresa complex’.

Reaching out to the helpless leaves me with a better perspective of life, and I learn to count my blessings.

One of the most intense moments I experienced on a visit to the Bridge2Peace Montessori, was watching a child with Down’s syndrome, work on his own, studying intently in an organized and stimulating educational environment. This child would have been segregated and hidden from the public, but here he was, enjoying the experience of quality education.A high quality Montessori education in a rural community is a huge blessing for both parents and teachers in the area.

Marketing Education in Sri Lanka

Srilankan School Girls...

Education is the only way out of poverty... educational opportunities abound providing young Sri Lankans with numerous career options.

Most popular College programmes are the ones that allow the students to start courses in universities abroad, within the shores of SriLanka, then leaving to Australia, Uk, Canada, India etc to complete the course and hopefully gain emlployment.