As a lecturer in a university system, it is highly essential to follow an education course in polishing once lecturing, professional, personal and environmental capabilities to meet the students’ expectations and deliver the best to build the foundations of our next generation.
Certificate in Teaching Methods in Higher Education is one such course developed by Prof. Colin Peiris and offered under the Staff Development Center / Internal Quality Assurance Unit at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.
This course is specially designed for the university academic staff which is designed to play an essential part for a career development programme in the university system.
Let me give a big thanks to Prof. Lakshman Ratnayake – Chancellor (SLIIT) and Prof. Lalith Gamage – Vice-Chancellor (SLIIT) for providing us staff members this great opportunity for our carrier development.
Let me talk a little bit about the creator of such worthy course.
After completing M.Sc. and Ph. D. Degrees from the Pennsylvania State University, USA in 1986 he joined the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and served as an academic for 30 years in capacities of a Senior Professor, the Head of a Department, Chairman in various Committees and finally as the Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture.
In 2004, he was hired by the World Bank as a Quality Assurance Specialist in Sri Lanka and worked until 2011. During this period he was able to inculcate Quality Assurance into Sri Lankan Universities and reviewed over 400 Institutions, Faculties, and Departments. The QAA Council of the University Grants Commission was formed in 2009 and he became the first Director and continued many national and international activities.
In 2007 he was invited to the Director Board of APQN and served for four consecutive terms and also served in the Director Board of INQAAHE for the period 2010 to 2012.
Prof. Colin who has made remarkable national and international contributions to the knowledge and practice of the quality assurance and for championing APQN’s cause of quality was awarded Quality Champion award for the year 2014 by APQN. Also, he was able to receive the best “Training and Support of Reviewers Award 2015″as he was able to train over 400 Reviewers locally and 185 foreign academics internationally from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. International workshops were conducted by Prof. Colin and he has developed an “Information Package for Reviewers’ Training” for the Asia Pacific Region on assessing quality in higher education.
Mentoring Life and Tech 