Vocational Training Centre Archives

Australian HC launches professional cookery by VTA towards inclusive skills development in tourism Vice Chairman of Vocational Training Centre (VTA) Mahesh Ariyaretna with Australian High Commissioner Paul Stephens at the launch of Professional Cookery Source:Island On the invitation of the Vocational Training Centre (VTA),the High Commissioner of Australia, Paul Stephens, launched a professional cookery project in the presence of delegates, government officials, members of the Chef Guild of Lanka, VTA students, staff, and visitors at the VTA Centre, in Kandy, recently. A press release said: The launch was designed to mark the commencement of Industry validated Professional Cookery training, now available at key Government training centres, and to support Supreme Chef – Season 3 which is a trademarked initiation of Skills for Inclusive Growth programme (S4IG), with the support of Australian Aid. The reality show experience, in the form of an organised challenge, brings under the spotlight Sri Lanka’s tourism ...

THE 8TH RECTOR – VERY REV. FR. JOE WICKREMASINGHE RECALLING THE HISTORY OF ST. PETER’S AS WE APPROACH THE CENTENARY YEAR….. Having recorded the services of the two pioneering rectors, Rev. Frs. Maurice Le Goc and D J Nicholas Perera, in our opinion, the notables of St. Peter’s should include the longest serving Rector whose period at St. Peter’s is best described as the “renaissance period” or the “golden era”. Comparing the lengths of Rectorship of Fr. Nicholas Perera to Fr. Joe Wickremasinghe, Fr, Joe pips Fr. Nicholas by 3 months (Fr. Nicholas Perera’s 16 years and 5 months versus Fr. Wickremasinghe’s 16 years and 8 months) For a change, instead of penning our own article on the much loved Rector we publish excerpts from a tribute paid by Rev. Fr. Saman Hettiarachchi, a nephew Fr. Joe. Born on 31st January, 1935 as the fifth child in a family of ...