ජාතික වැදගත් කමකින් යුතු තහනම් උත්තේජක පිලිබඳ සාකච්ජාවට ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනම මුල පුරයි.

වැඩිවන තරඟය, තරඟකාරීත්වය හා තහනම් උත්තේජක භාවිතය පිළිබඳව තුලින් දිගුකාලිව ශ්‍රී ලංකික සමාජයට සිදුවිය හැකි අනාගත තත්වය පිළිබඳව සහ ඉන් ඇතිවන අතුරු අබාධ හේතුකොටගෙන ජාතික, අන්තර්ජාතික  තලයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකික ක්‍රීඩා ක්ෂේත්‍රයට විය හැකි බලපෑම ගැන සාකච්ජා කිරීම සඳහා “තරඟය, තරඟකාරීත්වය හා තහනම් උත්තේජක”  යන මැයින් ප්‍රසිද්ධ දේශන  මාලාවකට ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ යහපැවැත්ම සඳහා වූ මධ්‍යස්ථානය පසුගිය දිනෙක මුල පුරන ලදී.  

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනම ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ කටයුතු කරන ජාතික නායකත්ව, අධ්‍යාපන සහ පුහුණු ආයතනය ලෙසින් ලෙස විවිධ වටිනාකම්වලින් යුතු අධ්‍යාපනික වැඩසටහන් හඳුන්වා දෙන පිළිගත් ආයතනයක් ලෙස පෙරමුනේ සිටී.ව්‍යාපාර හා ආයතනික සංවර්ධන අංශය, විවිධ පරාසයන් ආවරණයවන අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම තුළින් පුරෝගාමී කාර්යභාරයක්  ඉටු කෙරේ. මෙනිසා විවධ පරාසයන්ගෙන් යුතු විෂය ආවරණයන් සහිත විවිධ අත්දැකීම් සම්භාරයක් ඒකරාශීව තිබෙන හෙයින් වැඩි වටිනාකමක් සහිත වෘත්තීය දැනුමක් ලබාදීමට සුදුසු පරිසරයක් නිර්මාණය කරනු අටියෙන් සමාජ හා ආයතනික සංවර්ධන අංශය, මනෝ විද්‍යා හා උපදේශන ඒකකය, සංචාරක හා ආගන්තුක සත්කාර කළමනාකරණ අංශය, භාෂා හා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ අංශය, ඩිජිටල් සිනමා පාසල සහ යහපැවැත්ම සඳහා වූ මධ්‍යස්ථානය යන අධ්‍යාපන අංශ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනම තුල පිහිටුවා ඇත.    

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ යහපැවැත්ම සඳහා වූ මධ්‍යස්ථානය තුලින් වත්මන් සමාජයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් හට සිය කායික සහ මානසික යහපැවැත්ම උදා කරනු වස් විවිධාකාර වැඩසටහන් ක්‍රියාවට නංවයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ සභාපති මහාචර්ය රංජිත් බණ්ඩාරයන්ගේ මගපෙන්වීම ඔස්සේ,  ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය භාරත හේරත් මහතාගේ සම්බන්ධීකරණයෙන්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු උපදේශක සමන්ත රත්නයක මහතාගේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා තහනම් උත්තේජක නියාමනය සඳහා වූ නියෝජිත ආයතනය සමග එක්වී සංවිධානය කල “තරඟය, තරඟකාරීත්වය හා තහනම් උත්තේජක” ප්‍රසිද්ධ දේශනය එලෙස ඇරඹි විශේෂ වැඩසටහනක මූලික පියවරයි.උක්තව සඳහන් කරන ලද තහනම් උත්තේජක භාවිතයට හුරු වීම නිසා  ශ්‍රී ලංකික ක්‍රීඩා ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ඇති කෙරෙන බලපෑම සහ ඉන් සිදුවිය හැකි අනිටු විපාක ඔස්සේ ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා අනාගතයට එල්ල වී ඇති දැවැන්ත අභියෝගය සහ එයට මුහුණ දීමට නම් ක්‍රීඩාවට ආදරය කරන සහ ක්‍රීඩාවේ නිරත වන්නන් විසින් ඉටු කල යුතු කාර්යභාරය  කුමක්ද යන්න පිළිබඳව මෙම දේශනය තුලදී අවධානයට ලක් කරන ලදී. 

මෙහිදී ආරාධිත දේශන සිදුකිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකා තහනම් උත්තේජක නියාමනය සඳහා වූ නියෝජිත ආයතනය වෙනුවෙන් එහි අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල් වෛද්‍ය සීවලී ජයවික්‍රම සහ  අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා වෛද්‍ය ශිරෝමි පිලපිටිය, ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙනුවෙන් එහි සහකාර අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජාතික බර ඉසිලීම් සහ ක්‍රීඩා පුහුණුකරු ආර්. බී. වික්‍රමසිංහ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනම වෙනුවෙන්  ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය භාරත හේරත් සහ  ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු උපදේශක සමන්ත රත්නයක යන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගී විය.  

ජෝර්ජ් ස්ටුව්ර්ට් හෙල්ත් සහ O2  කැම්පස් යන ආයතන මෙම වැඩසටහන සඳහා සිය අනුග්‍රාහක සහය  ලබා දෙන ලදී 

SLF TIES UP WITH BERENDINA DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (GTE) LTD

The SLF is known to be the foremost and pioneering Adult Education Centre in Sri Lanka incorporated by an Act of Parliament, the SLF Law No.31 of 1973 and has now consolidated its position as the national centre for Leadership, Education and Training. SLF functions autonomously under the purview of the Presidential secretariat and is managed by a Board.

Among its many arms, the Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit (THMU) has fallen in line with national economic development and has commenced a number of programmes to add value to the development of the country.

In the year 2013, under an agreement with the ‘Education for Knowledge Society Project’ funded by the Asian Development Bank SLF conducted a successful Craft Level Certificate Course incorporating the basic disciplines of Front Office, House Keeping, Kitchen Production & Cookery, and also Restaurant & Bar. SLF also  has an overall service portfolio for training academics for the Hotel Industry and is an accredited training centre of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management (SLITHM) the former Ceylon Hotel School and job placements will be done in collaboration with the  National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority (NAITA).

Berendina group is one of the leading poverty alleviation agencies in the non-government sector in Sri Lanka. It consists of Berendina Development Services, Berendina Microfinance Institute and Berendina Employment Center. Berendina operates on an annual budget of over LKR 2 Billion. Berendina Development Services (BDS) provides assistance to Youth development programs, for vocational training, Social Businesses, infrastructure development, Livelihoods, and psychosocial work targeting economically active and inactive poorest of the poor in selected rural and plantation areas.

The Tourism industry in Sri Lanka is expanding rapidly and the demand for skilled people in this field is increasing, which will help reduce the rate of unemployment in Sri Lanka. Unemployment can be attributed to various reasons. The gap between skills required by employers and the skills that exist among job seekers’ has become the major contributor to the increasing rate of unemployment among youth. Most applicants lack the “soft skills” required by the potential market. The main objective therefore of this MoU is to bridge the gap between the availability and the requirement of the job market with reference to the level of soft and technical skills related to the hospitality industry.

If you need any information regarding the next intake pls. contact Mr. Bharatha Herath, Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of the Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit of SLF on 071 8281883.

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Mr. Samantha Rathnayake, Consultant, Academic Affairs-SLF, Mr Bharatha Herath, Senior Lecturer-SLF, Mr Dulan De Silva, Chairman, Berendina Development Services, Prof. Ranjith Bandara, Chairman-SLF, Mr Jagath Pieris, Director, Berendina Development Services, Ms. Premali Wijeweera, Director Finance and Administration-SLF

TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT UNIT OF SLF IS FORGING AHEAD WITH A NUMBER OF PROGRAMMES

The SLF is known to be the foremost and pioneering Adult Education Centre in Sri Lanka incorporated by an Act of Parliament, the SLF Law No.31 of 1973 and has now consolidated its position as the national centre for Leadership, Education and Training. 

Sri Lanka Foundation(SLF) functions autonomously under the purview of the Presidential secretariat and is managed by a Board.
Among its many arms, the Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit (THMU) has fallen in line with national economic development and has started a number of programmes to add value to the country’s development.Under an agreement with the ‘Education for Knowledge Society Project’ funded by the Asian Development Bank SLF conducted a successful Craft Level Certificate Course incorporating the basic disciplines of Front Office, House Keeping, Kitchen Production & Cookery, and also Restaurant & Bar. This course leads to a “Professional Certificate in Craft Level Hotel Management”. This is a Tourist Sector Training Scholarship programme that has been planned with the aim of enhancing the prospects of employability with relevance to the tourism industry and is meant particularly for O/L and A/L students who have not qualified for higher education. Students numbering 174 who followed the “Craft Level Certificate in Hotel Management” has successfully completed the course and are working in leading hotels in Sri Lanka and abroad.

SLF has an overall service portfolio for training academics for the Hotel Industry and is an accredited training centre of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management (SLITHM) the former Ceylon Hotel School and job placements will be done in collaboration with the  National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority (NAITA).Under an MoU between SLF and the Institute of Sports Medicine, the only medical institution under the Ministry of Sports which maintains both physical and mental fitness of athletes in Sri Lanka, a Certificate Course for Sports Masseurs and Physical Therapy Assistants was launched. This Certificate Course incorporates the basic disciplines of Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, Physical Fitness, Sports Nutrition, Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy, Sports Massaging, Sports Psychology and First- Aid. This course will produce international standard physical therapists equipped with technical skills to be professionals armed with a valid certificate including a NVQ qualification, and targets Sports Masseurs and Physical Therapy Assistants who work in health clubs, fitness or recreation centers, gyms, schools, hospitals, universities, yoga centres, resorts, and clients' homes.

One of the most successful programmes which was introduced in 2013 was the “Training of Fitness trainers” in collaboration with the Ministry of Sports and Carlton Sports Network. It opens up new avenues to equip fitness trainers with professional qualifications and subsequently it could lead to the strength and conditioning diploma level.  

The THMU of SLF is planning to launch a series of programmes in collaboration with Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority to contribute to the tourism and hospitality sector. If you need any information regarding the next intake pls. contact Mr. Bharatha Herath, Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of the Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit of SLF on 071 8281883.

Corporate Planning for Organisations by SLF - a successful Initiative

There is an inclination to believe that any public institution which depicts itself as an example of poor governance that such an institution should be operated like private sector business organisations. This is not equally applicable to all public institutions as there are certain limitations of the delivery patterns. The private and public sectors are significantly different to each other as far as good governance is concerned. However people expect any entity to be operated like a private sector institution irrespective of their product or service domain.

Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF) is expanding its services to a wider mandate as a center for leadership, education and training. The Business and Enterprise Development Unit is one of the main arms of SLF which is striving to establish fully fledged business and management studies by itself and in collaboration with local and international strategic partners. The Corporate planning initiative is one of the most sought after services  from the SLF by many business and government entities. At present more than 15 institutions have obtained this service and the SLF is pleased to extend  this service to organisations ,as a task of national importance in establishing good governance in these institutions.

As we know any successful organization should steer with a vision, mission and corporate objectives /goals. When an organization is focussing on its desired future with a greater sense of preparedness, they are in a rational position to successfully encounter their operations. All organizations should be conscious of  value design before  concentrating on value administration. One should take their corporate planning seriously to drive the organization to the expected standards.  SLF assists to revisit the set vision and mission statements of the organization, develop new statements and frame the corporate outline for final deliverables.

Photo: Corporate Planning Team

Prof. Ranjith Bandara, Chairman, SLF

Samantha Rathnayake, Consultant Academic Affairs, SLF

Bharatha Herath, Senior Lecturer, SLF

Nalini Indatissa, Communication Officer, SLF

Dilhan Goonathilake, Senior Lecturer, SLF

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනම, ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් හවුල්කාරත්ව අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමක

නායකත්ව අධ්‍යාපන හා පුහුණුව සඳහා වු ජාතික කේන්ද්‍රය ලෙසින් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය යටතේ කටයුතු කරන ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනම ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් හා සහයෝගීතාවයකට එළඹීම සඳහා අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට එළඹ ඇත.

ඒ අනුව ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමෙහි ආගන්තුක සත්කාර කළමනාකරණ ඒකකය ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් සමග ඇතිකරගත් හවුල්කාරිත්වය තුළින් පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් පැවැත්වීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇත.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමෙහි ආගන්තුක සත්කාර කළමනාකරණ ඒකකය දැනට ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන වැඩසටහන් රටේ සංවර්ධනයට අගය එකතු කිරීම මගින් ජාතික ආර්ථිකයේ සංවර්ධනය ඇති කරලීම සඳහා කටයුතු කරයි.  ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ විශාලතම ස්වාභාවික වැව වන බොල්ගොඩ වැවෙහි දකුණු කොටසෙහි පිහිටා තිබෙන පරිසර හිතකාමී ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් ආයතනය එහි පැමිණෙන ආගන්තුකයන්ට නිදහසේ විනෝදාස්වාදය ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ගැළපෙන සාමකාමී වාතාවරණයක් ලබා දෙයි.  සොබා දහමට ආදරය දක්වන්නන්ට විවිධ වර්ගයේ පක්ෂීන්, තුරුලතා සහ සත්ව වර්ගයාගෙන් සැදි ඉතාමත් දර්ශනීය පරිසර පද්ධතියක අත්දැකිම් විඳ ගැනීමට හැකියාව ලැබෙනු ඇත.

ආයතනයෙන් බැහැර වු නව වැඩසටහන් සංචාරක පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් හා මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක හා උපදේශන වැඩ සටහන් හඳුන්වා දෙමින් මේ පාර්ශව දෙකෙහිම ව්‍යාපාරයන් ප‍්‍රවර්ධනය කරලිම මෙම හවුල්කාරිත්ව සහයෝගීතාවයේ අරමුණ වේ.  ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් හි ඇති ස්වභාවික දර්ශනයත්, අති විශාල බොල්ගොඩ වැවෙහි අලංකාරය වැඩි කරමින් පැතිරී ඇති කඩොලාන අතුරින් නැගී එන කුරුළු නාදය, කාර්ය බහුල ජීවිත ගත කරන්නවුන්ට ඉතා අගනා නිදහස් පරිසරයක් ලබා දෙනු ඇත.

වැඩිදුර විස්තර සඳහා ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමෙහි ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය සහ ආගන්තුක සත්කාර කළමනාකරණ ඒකකයෙහි සම්බන්ධිකාරක භාරත හේරත් මහතා දුරකථන අංක 071-8281883 ම`ගින් හෝ ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට්හි අධ්‍යක්ෂ චරිත ගුණතිලක මහතා දුරකථන අංක 077-2104626 මගින් අමතන්න.

ජායාරූපය :  ප‍්‍රීති ගුණතිලක කළමනාකාර අධ්‍යක්ෂ - ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් , චරිත ගුණතිලක අධ්‍යක්ෂ- ඔවින්කා ලේක් රිසෝට් , ප‍්‍රිමාලි විජේවීර - ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ මුල්‍ය සහ පරිපාලන , සමන්ත රත්නායක - ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු උපදේශක , භාරත හේරත් - ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පදනමේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය.

SLF ties up with National Institute of Exports (NIOE) of National Chamber of Exporters (NCE)

Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF) which has now been transformed into the National Centre for Leadership, Education and Training comes under the purview of the presidential secretariat and is managed by a Board of Management.  For over four decades SLF has been the premier institution for Leadership, Education and Training and has contributed to the overall National development of the country. 

Due to expansion in the educational activities, in order to be more focused with the varied subjects seven main units have been identified as follows, Social and Institutional Development Unit, Business and Enterprise Development unit, Psychology and Counseling Unit, Digital Film Academy, Language and ICT Unit, Tourism and Hospitality Management Unit and Centre forwellbeing.   

The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka  (NCE) is the only private sector Chamber which exclusively serves Sri Lankan Exporters and is the ‘Voice of the Exporter’. Incorporated in 1994

The National Institute of Exports (NIOE) started by NCE for the educational and the training aspect of the NCE members and acts as a subsidiary of NCE, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), SLF Bonds with the NIOE as a partner organization with the NCE.

Signing of the MOU between NIOE and SLF took place at the SLF Premises on 18^th of August 2014, with the participation of the Key officials of SLF and NIOE & NCE. Via this MOU It is expected to contribute towards enhancement of management and operational competencies towards the development and implementation of collaborative programmes to study in exports and imports management.

The courses designed will be qualified export specialist certificate course, qualified export specialist advance  certificate, qualified export specialist diploma, qualified export specialist higher diploma.

This collaboration moreover develops links between industry and the academia, and promotes research and industry links and networks amongst local and foreign academics and professionals. This would impact on Sri Lanka’s Journey of empowering education among diverse entrepreneur community to become a world’s leading hub for trade mentioned in the “Pancha Bala Kendra” (5 Power Centres) which is included in the “Mahinda Chinthana” vision for future envisaged by H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa the President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

To mark the signing of the MOU  Mr. Mangala P.B. Yapa - President NCE & Chairman of NIOE , Dr. Jagath  Peiris - Immediate Past President NCE & Director of NIOE, Mr. Sarada De Silva - Vice President NCE & Director of NIOE, Mr. Ramal Jasinghe - Vice President NCE,Ms. Dawn Austin - Director of NIOE ,Mr. P.D. Fernando – Chief Executive Officer of NIOE, Mr. Rasa Weerasingham- Executive Director, NCE,Mr. L S G Tillekeratne- Director Member Services, NCE,Mr. Shiham Marikar - Director Trade PromotionNCE,  from NIOE party; Prof. Ranjith Bandara - Chairman SLF ,Mrs. Premalie Wijeweera – Director Finance and Admin, Mr. Samantha Rathnayake – Consultant Academic Affairs, Mr. Dilhan Gunathilake -  Unit coordinator of SLF Business and Enterprise Unitrepresented Sri Lanka Foundation.

Sports Massage, Zumba, Medical Taping and much more under one Arm – SLF Wellbeing Centre

Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF) is the National Centre for Leadership, Education and Training under the purview of the Presidential Secretariat, contributing to national development in line with the “Mahinda Chinthana”: Vision for the future to be the “Miracle of Asia” as envisaged by the president of Sri Lanka.

The Well-being Centre of SLF (SLF Well-being Centre) has been established primarily to help Sri Lankans to achieve a higher living standard. SLF Well-being Centre provides Sports massage activities, injury rehabilitation, psychological counseling, corporate well-being and much more.

Hence in achieving these goals, range of activities related to Sports Massage, Zumba, Medical taping has been organized in collaboration with Institute of Sports Medicine and Professional Sports Masseuse Association. 

Free Sports Massage session was conducted at the Independence Square Park on 14^th of August 2014, where free massage services were provided to the morning joggers and exercise enthusiasts who present themselves at the morning exercise sessions at independence square area and nearby. This event was a successful event as many proactive complements were given by the individuals who took free sports massage services.

Free workshop on Zumba was another initiative which was taken on promoting Zumba dancing; a global aerobics technique for enriching human metabolism. Zumba was invented by the world renowned Colombian choreographer Alberto Perez in 1990s. Workshop on Zumba at SLF was conducted by Mr. Sagara de Soyza a certified Zumba and Aqua Zumba instructor who has his expertise in Sri Lanka and Europe. This was conducted on the 15^th of August at SLF Nugaya premises with the participation of more than 100 enthusiasts. 

Medical Taping initiative by the SLF Wellbeing Centre in association with The Institute of Sports Medicine and George Stuart’s healthcare to improve awareness on sports injury prevention and sports injury curing was another successful event. During this program techniques of proper medical taping, importance of correct medical taping, impact on proper medical taping for the injury curing and injury prevention were discussed with the practical sessions. Mr. Charith Withanage from the Institute of Sports Medicine participated as the resource person for the Medical Taping workshop with the presence of Mr. Sasanka Hettiarachchi (Manager Surgical- George Stuart Health Care (Pvt) Ltd), Dr. Daminda Attanayake (Visiting Lecturer of SLF) and Mr. Bharath Herath (Senior Lecturer- SLF).

Moreover SLF Wellbeing Centre provides range of services to its clients on improving human wellbeing including corporate wellness programs, counseling and rehabilitation etc... For more information please contact Tanya on 0716 289 376