The EDEX
2013 Exhibition will be held January 18th to 20th at the BMICH in Colombo Sri
Lanka and on January 25th and 26th at the City Centre in Kandy. This
year’s Exhibition is the 10th consecutive annual exhibition to be held in the
country.
Exhibitors
from over 21 different countries representing over 250 universities will have
more than 300 stalls at the Exhibition. . Participants will include highly
ranked universities from North America, Europe, Russia, China, Japan, SAARC
Region, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Many local tertiary educational, professional, vocational and technical training institutes from both government and private sectors will also participate in the Expo offering many options to gain advanced knowledge and enhanced skills for the youth.
Sri Lanka's higher education and careers exhibition, the
EDEX-Expo - 2013, organised by Colombo Royal College Union (RCU).EDEX, the National Higher Education and Careers
EXPO is now the single largest nationwide platform connecting Sri Lankan youth
with Choices, Options and Opportunitiesin the post-secondary, graduate and
postgraduate fields, technical and vocational training leading to gainful
employment.
Many local tertiary educational, professional, vocational and technical training institutes from both government and private sectors will also participate in the Expo offering many options to gain advanced knowledge and enhanced skills for the youth.
EDEX
organisers say early awareness of career and tertiary educational opportunities
and vocation education will allow young people to find employment quickly and
match the needs of a growing economy. According to the EDEX organisers, an
annual exhibition will be conducted in the middle of the year from 2013, to
further reduce the time taken by school leavers to choose their career or
tertiary education paths.
This
exhibition will focus on higher educational opportunities for post-Advanced
Level examinations or university entrance and high school certificate
examination students who will be just out of school. The exhibition in January
captures the post-Ordinary Level and post-A/L student population. The mid-year
exhibition will be held on August 31 and September 1 in Colombo.
Holding of
EDEX Expo 2013 has been endorsed by the Presidential Secretariat, Ministries of
Education, Higher Education, Youth Affairs and Skills Development, Environment
and Labor and Labor Relations.
The Ceylon
Chamber of Commerce (CCC), Information and Communication Technology Agency
(ICTA), and Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM)
are strategic partners in this Exhibition.
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