OpenArc School of Business and Technology (OSBT) convocation 2012 ceremony was held on 19th December 2012 at BMICH, Colombo 07. Professor Gihan Wickrmanayake Director of University of Colombo School of Computing was the Chief Guest and Mr. Niranjan De Silva Director/CEO of Metropolitan Computers was the guest of honor. Students who successfully completed the Diploma [...]

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OpenArc School of Business and Technology (OSBT) convocation 2012 ceremony was held on 19th December 2012 at BMICH,

At the convocation ceremony seated from the left (Front row) are Mr. Lalith Gunathilake (Director of OSM), Mr. Masami Awano (Director of OSM), Mr. Daya Hettiarachchi (Chairman/CEO of OSM) Chief Guest Prof. Gihan Wickramanayake (Director of University of Colombo School of Computing), Guest of honour Mr. Niranjan De Silva (CEO of Metropolitan Computers), Ms. Neranjala Weerasinghe (Regional Manager of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT), Mr. Vijith Sinhabahu (Managing Director of OSBT).

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Professor Gihan Wickrmanayake Director of University of Colombo School of Computing was the Chief Guest and Mr. Niranjan De Silva Director/CEO of Metropolitan Computers was the guest of honor. Students who successfully completed the Diploma in Industrial Software Development (IDSD) were conferred with the IDSD diploma certificates by Prof. Gihan Wickramanayake. The new batch of IDSD IV (2013) students comprising 40 students received the offer letters for the full and the half scholarships awarded by OpenArc School for four years of free education towards BIT degree of University of Colombo, from Mr. Niranjan De Silva and Ms. Niranjala Weerasinghe respectively.

Prof. Gihan Wickramanayake delivering convocation speech emphasized the value of the IDSD program and mentioned that it is very important to provide

Declaring the Convocation Open’ by the CEO/Chairman OpenArc Systems and seated in the front row are Mr. Lalith Gunathilake (Director of OSM), Mr. Masami Awano (Director of OSM), Chief Guest Prof. Gihan Wickramanayake (Director of University of Colombo School of Computing), Guest of honour Mr. Niranjan De Silva (CEO of Metropolitan Computers), Ms. Neranjala Weerasinghe (Regional Manager of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT), Mr. Vijith Sinhabahu (Managing Director of OSBT).

software industry experiences with the academic studies which is the practice of OpenArc at all times. He further emphasized that the students in the present society continue without goals in the life.

He shared his personal experience and said how one should focus in the corporate world and the society.

Mr. Daya Hettiarachchi, Chairman/CEO of OpenArc explained the study programmme of Industrial Diploma in Software Development (IDSD) and said the OpenArc School offers 25 annual scholarships to provide 100% free education over a period of four years for them to complete the diploma in the first year and then three year degree of BIT offered by University of Colombo School of Computing. These scholarship holders are offered not only free education but job opportunities at the end of first year of IDSD diploma.




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