Change has become the order of the day. Education has to keep itself ready for such a change .This puts a whole lot of responsibility on the shoulder of a teacher. School teaching is the single most important and noble profession in the world. Teachers pass on the knowledge to children and prepare them for further education and for working life.

Teachers are the main contributors to good education and hence the main pillars of a sound and progressive society. He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. 'A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image but to develop students who can create their own image'.Of course the teacher needs to know the subjects and keep abreast of it. But this is not sufficient. Most people are not born teachers, being a teacher means learning how to use given skills under very peculiar conditions. There is nothing natural about school .Training is necessary. Unfortunately there are no guarantees that the training one gets will do much good to him. Just as there is little in the way of guarantee that the children will get a good teaching in school or that one will be a good teacher!

Today with the challenging environment in any school everything depends primarily on the teacher. There are various roles played by teachers in understanding students' needs. Some of them are learning about students' interests, planning and organizing classroom activities, assessing students' performance, understanding their basic needs, encouraging them to improve, calling for parent student meeting and discussing with them about the students' performance or discipline, motivating students to do better and encouraging them to participate in extra-curricular activities. Hence the role of a teacher is challenging.Education and Teacher Training encompasses three crucial facets, identification, facilitation and achievement .

The teacher should know 'to whom', 'what' 'how' and 'by whom', education is to be imparted. In the process of identification the implications are the student, the curriculum, the methodology and competence. Facilitation incorporates all these aspects through the pedagogic task. Achievement is the learning resulting in the change of behaviour of the student guided by the teacher. A competent teacher is one who performs all these roles with equal dexterity. This is a result of accumulation of pedagogic skills. As a forerunner in child education the teacher should have a clear perception of the child's physical, emotional, intellectual , social, moral, environmental and aesthetic needs and abilities and teaching should be meticulously articulated to fulfil those needs and develop those abilities. All can be learners but only the most imaginative and competent could be perfect teachers.

Horizon Campus was established in the year 2009 with a vision to make the campus a centre of excellence by producing good teachers, graduates and postgraduates to be worthy citizens imbued with knowledge, skills and values which enable the students to lead an ideal and successful life with integrity and compassion and be beneficial to the citizens of the country and to self. The college is on track with the great vision of imparting knowledge and creating teachers to join in the nation building led by Mr. Upul Daranagama. MBA. B.SC., (Acc.FM), FABE, Dip. HRM standing firm to improve the quality of education through experimentation and innovation. It is his strong belief that education and teacher training is the one important area in which national productivity will be improved, hence Horizon Campus is a dream child of Mr. Upul Daranagama.

Horizon has taken the international syllabus from the well known university Karnataka State Open University, India through i-Nurture, one of the leading educational solutions Pvt. Ltd from Bangalore to add a feather to the cap. The certifying body for the courses run at the campus is KSOU which is a world renowned university in India.Horizon Campus has an experienced and well qualified staff from India and Sri Lanka, endowed with the finest qualities of head and heart. Dr.R.M Premaratne PhD, M.phil,PGDE, BA(Ceylon) formerly the Head of the Dept. of Early Childhood Education and Senior Lecturer Dept. of Education Open University of Sri Lanka and also the visiting lecturer of University of Colombo is the Head of the Department of Education at Horizon Campus.

Ms. Amara Amarasinghe former Principal of Sanghamitta Balika Vidhyalaya, Consultant Sarvodaya and UNICEF, Mrs. Pushpa S. K. Dassanayake former Service Advisor of Sri Jayawardanepura Educational Zone and lecturer of English at the Teachers' College Maharagama are in the faculty for different courses. Prof. Madhusoodan MSc. (Psychology) from India is the Head of the Department of Psychology, Mr. Biju Mathew (MSc Psychology) Mrs. Dhaniya Madhusoodan (MSc. Psychology) are the lecturers for Psychology from India
Mr. Ganji Nagesh Msc. B.Ed. M.Ed is a lecturer from India.
Please contact us at:
Horizon Campus
Millennium Drive,
Mlabe, Srilanka
Tel: +94 11 240 7777
Hotline :+ 94 71 240 7777
Fax : +2413610
Email : info@horizoncampus.edu.lk
Web: www.horizoncampus.edu.lk

Horizon Campus is situated in the beautiful outskirts of Malabe just 10 kms away from Colombo. The campus has an atmosphere quite congenial for studies and for living away from the buzz of the town. Horizon has excellent facilities; housed in magnificent buildings and provided with well furnished classrooms with modern amenities, good library and well equipped laboratories, modern computer facilities with internet and Wi-Fi in the campus to outfit the learner with all modern advancements.