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British Council launches international awards to celebrate UK alumni achievements The British Council is pleased to announce the tenth year of its Study UK Alumni Awards programme, celebrating the outstanding achievements of UK alumni around the world. The award winners and finalists are leaders in their fields who have used their experience of studying at a UK university to make a positive contribution to their communities, industries and countries. This year’s award categories include science and sustainability, business and innovation, culture and creativity and social action. The call for applications opened on 1 September 2023 and closes on 22 October 2023. All eligible applicants will be put forward for the global Alumni Awards and national Alumni Awards which will be hosted in many countries including Sri Lanka. ...

Oct 7, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Data on poverty, vulnerability essential for effective planning – Prime Minister Source:Dailynews Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena called upon all policy-makers, as well as the private sector and civil society, to use the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) formulated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to understand and implement measures to help move Sri Lanka away from vulnerability and poverty in the future. He said this when UNDP Resident Representative Azusa Kubota called on him at the Temple Trees yesterday (31) together with the members of the UNDP experts team Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford and Prof. Siri Hettige, Professor in Sociology to hand over the UNDP MVI MPI Reports. The Prime Minister thanked the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, the UNDP SURGE Data Hub, and the Citra Social Innovation Lab, which is anchored within ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Raveen Kariyawasam clinches Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford: First Sri Lankan in 54 years to do so Source : sundaytimes Raveen Kariyawasam, who won one of the most competitive postgraduate scholarships at 22, spoke to the Education Times this Wednesday about his successes in life and what the future holds for him. Despite the inclement weather, Raveen’s charisma and energy filled the room as he talked about his background and how he came about to win the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest running postgraduate scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, first established in 1902 by Cecil Rhodes and last won by a Sri Lankan in 1968 by Prof. G.L. Peiris. Kariyawasam is an alumnus of Colombo International School, where he studied his A-levels before he was accepted to the prestigious Ivy League University of Pennsylvania to study Bioengineering with concentrations in computational medicine and medical devices. Speaking to us ...

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This is story of a girl born in Vavuniya – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Ending up at the University of Oxford Anthropologist Historian St Antony’s Liaison Officer for Texas Lives in Sugar land, Texas This is a life story of a close friend, never met in life, living so far -Sugar Valley-Texas, in the US, and my wife and I, in Sydney Australia, but the friendship is so close, like living next door to each other. Her name is Agnes Thambinayagam Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget. Today, I am going to relate to you the achievements of this lady, born in Vavuniya, in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Agnes was born ...

Jun 13, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , ,
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  Dr.Harold Gunatillake’s 90th Birthday party Download the PDF file . DR HAROLD GUNATILLAKE BY Agnes Thambynayagam Dr Harold Gunatillake is a humanitarian who tirelessly publishes Health and Views publication every week and circulates to nearly six thousand Sri Lankan expatriates who live all over the world. I came to know Doctor Harold in April 2013 when a Sri Lankan forwarded me Harold’s Health and Views publication. The publication not only carried health… Continue Reading About the author: Historian, Former the author of the book, The Gentiles, ….. at Author, The Gentiles, A History of Sri Lanka 1498-1833 • Studies at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK • Studied South Asian History at University of Oxford • Went to Holy Family Convent Collegiate School, Jaffna, Sri Lanka • Goes to Holy Family Convent, Jaffna • Lives in Sugar Land, Texas • From Jaffna Town, Sri Lanka • Married to ...

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