The world renowned Cranfield School of Management in the UK will present a scholarship to any member of the three leading IFAC accountancy bodies in Sri Lanka, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (ICASL) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Branch (CIMA). Full Time MBA Programme Director Sean Rickard who informed Sri Lanka of the scholarship said, “We hope the scholarship attracts candidates who will benefit from this initiative and that, with the help of the accounting bodies in Sri Lanka, it will raise Cranfield’s profile. We are extremely grateful for the support of the institutes in this. We will be reviewing the success of the programme after two years.”

ACCA Sri Lanka’s Immediate Past President, Dilshan Rodrigo, himself an alumni of the Cranfield School of Management extends his best wishes to all candidates and says, “I hope most sincerely that this initiative will signal the birth of a new generation of professional skilled managers who will add value to the corporate boardrooms of Sri Lanka.” Stating that this is truly a world class MBA ranked consistently as one of the top MBAs in Europe, he adds, “This one year full time programme is ideally suited for members in middle and senior management positions with ambitious career goals.” Rodrigo, who has continued to maintain ties with Cranfield, further reinforced the relationship once he became President of ACCA Sri Lanka, sourcing resource speakers for the ACCA National Conferences in the last two years. “Two people who played significant roles in mooting this scholarship from the Cranfield end are the former Director of the MBA Programme Professor Leo Murray who was the Keynote Speaker at our conference in 2006 and has a soft spot for Sri Lankans and Sri Sriskanthan, a Sri Lankan faculty member on the MBA programme.”

Cranfield has produced a distinguished honour roll of MBA alumni from Sri Lanka over the last two decades including Managing Director of Hatton National Bank Rajendra Theagarajah, Senior Vice President of WNS Arul Sivagananathan and Group Financial Controller of Stretchline Hasantha de Silva. Members of ICASL, ACCA and CIMA must apply directly to Cranfield School of Management, for which instructions are available on the Cranfield website ww.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/mba/, marking the application ‘Sri Lanka Scholarship’.

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Finally, there is hope for the leaders, are seeking a level of management, to help them climb quickly heads Corporate. Although the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, the former position is not prosecuted Graduate Management Programme (evening) for executives, he now has another year of progress.

In the evening, of course, the demolition of this academic session attended prudent not only for candidates for membership, but also among the graduates, during several meetings with the authorities trying to impress and the need for Course.

The new course is quite different in approach and content compared to the previous and is likely to win the leadership, not only the country but also abroad. While entering all other post-graduate diploma in management programmes IIM-C is the common Admission Test (CAT), under the direction of six IIMS, the program calls for the GMAT. The reason is that foreign students for the course.

In addition, unlike the past, of course, where students could attend the evening classes after hours, it will be a full-time courses, where students are required to make the stay on campus, as d ‘ usually on the other PGP. It is for students to line their current employer or leave their work for the course. The courses of the Institute at the end of the program, but those who took lien on the course are not allowed at the site.

“We are targeting a different group of students from this program. One of the criteria that must be at least five years of professional experience and are in the age group of 28-29 years. rate is contributing, married a lot more students to positions they held before classes. We expect many students from South-East Asian countries, Anup Sinha, dean of programme initiatives said.

The course will begin in December 2006 with 40 students. The student’s income increases, reaching 120. “We are families who need it. That is why we will take some time to increase home, “Sinha added.

A program like this is currently in India by the School of Business, Hyderabad. Apart from IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad is also planned for courses, although a little earlier in July. The fee for one year, this course has been fixed at Rs 800000 or the equivalent amount in U.S. dollars for foreign students.