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At the beginning of the process, a workshop on After three years of continuous hard work, while

curriculum revision quality assurance for the facing the difficulties caused by the Covid 19
academic staff was conducted with the pandemic, the Faculty was able to reap the
participation of Prof. Ranjith Pallegama. Further, success of the curriculum revision process in
several stakeholder meetings with present 2021. We developed the Graduate profile of the

students of each degree programme, faculty Faculty of Management Studies and individual
graduates who are employed, industry experts degree programmes, OBE-LCT based curriculum
and academics from other state universities of each degree programme, and seven Policy
were conducted to gather inputs to the revision. documents, namely; Assessment Policy,

The new curricular would benefit the Faculty of Plagiarism Policy, Internship Policy, Thesis
Management Studies graduates, potential Policy, Students Support Policy, Faculty Quality
employers, professional bodies, and the Assurance Policy and Policy on Academic

community at a vast. Integrity and Code of Conduct. In addition, the
designing and developments are continuing to
This process was a success due to the launch the Faculty prospectus within the year.
commitment of all the academic staff in the The revised curricular will be in effect for five
Faculty. The visionary leadership of the Dean of years for the period 2021 – 2025. The Faculty

the Faculty, Prof. WK Athula C Gnanapala and expects the revised curricular would bring the
the Chairman of curriculum revision and desired outcomes in the long run.
development committee, Prof. DAI Dayaratne,

leads to the timely completion of the process.
Further, the constant support and coordination
of the Heads of the Departments and the
curriculum revision and development committee,
including Mr DLG Rasika, co-chair, Mrs K Manori

Pathmalatha, former secretary, Ms PM Shamika,
secretary and the coordinating team, was
commendable.

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