Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines is pro-moting family travel with attrac-tive savings for groups of two to eight people flying together from Colombo.

The special Economy Class and Business Class “Family Fares” announced an offer between Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 25,000 in incremental savings per ticket through price reductions that apply for groups of two, three or four up to eight travelling together to numerous popular destinations.

In Economy Class, the “Fami-ly Fares” are applicable for travel from Colombo to Singapore, Dubai and Malé, up to May 31, 2013.

The Business Class “Family Fares” are for travel to 20 popu-lar destinations including Singa-pore, Dubai, London, Rome and New York. These fares will be on sale until March 31, and out-ward travel should be completed by the end of May 2013.

“Travel experiences are all the more interesting when they are shared with loved ones,” said Devika Ellepola, Emirates Sales Manager, Sri Lanka. “As an air-line that is focused on enabling global connectivity across cul-tures and continents, Emirates constantly looks for opportuni-ties to turn more people in to ‘globalistas’ through interna-tional travel.”

Members of Skywards, the

award-winning frequent flyer programme of Emirates Airline, earn Miles on all fares, even discounted fares. To take advan-tage of the benefits on top of the “Family Fares” promotional offer, travellers can join Emir-ates Skywards for free at www.emirates.com/skywards

“Family Fares” start from Rs. 22,178 per passenger inclusive of taxes and surcharges, for a group of four to eight travelling from Colombo to Malé.

The fare to Dubai on the same basis is Rs. 41,184. To be eligi-ble for these fares, the passenger must be accompanied in the same cabin by at least three adults.

All-inclusive “Family Fares” on Business Class start at Rs. 88,301 per passenger for a Colombo – Singapore return for a group of four to eight people. The Business Class fare for a similar group travelling to Dubai is Rs. 108,876.

These fares may be purchased online via www.emirates.com/lk, at the Emirates office in Colombo or through leading travel agents.

For more information or book-ings, contact 4704070.

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The first leg of the Indian Education Fair 2013, concluded yesterday at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Con-ference Hall (BMICH), Colombo. The fair comprised of about 30 institutions which represented nearly 100 colleges. The event was aimed to help potential students and visitors interact with educational advisory and informative repre-sentatives. The Chief Guest at the event was Minister of Higher Eucation, S.B. Dissanayake and the Guest of Honour was Ashok K. Kantha, High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka. Some highlights of the event. pictures by saliya Rupasinghe. (SP)

Indian Education Fair

emirates Unveils special “Family Fares” in Colombo After imparting the neces-

sary theoretical knowledge for a period of about nine months, we direct them to hands on software development work at the software development arm of our Group, the OpenArc Systems Management (Pvt) Ltd. After three months of successful practical training and project work, we employ them as Computer Software Developers at OpenArc Sys-tems where we develop world class software for many indus-tries such as Banking & Finance, Manufacturing, and Security markets. While engag-ing them in practical software development, we give them the necessary education and fur-ther training to complete the BIT Degree Course of the Uni-versity of Colombo and we bear the total cost including examination fees to be paid to University.

“Initially, we are giving com-plete education in basics of computer science in the one year Computer Software Development Diploma Course by covering London Advanced Level Syllabus of the UK. Fur-thermore, students are given essential knowledge of the usage of English language and soft skills as well. We teach most popular programming

languages for computer soft-ware writing such as Java, PHP, and .Net from the begin-ning. The Bachelor of Infor-mation Technology (BIT) Degree of the University of Colombo is an internationally recognized degree which cov-ers a broad spectrum of com-puting, information and com-munication technology subject matter.

The balance three years of the four-year scholarship is dedicated to teach the content of that degree”

Daya Hettiarachchi further said, “The specialty of this OpenArc “Navodaya” Scholar-ship Project is that students are getting a theoretical knowl-edge of the most modern tech-nology pertaining to computer software development and the opportunity to practically apply that knowledge simulta-neously which is unique to OpenArc because we are the only institution running a soft-ware development company and a IT school within the same building.

This is what we call “IT Industrial Campus” At the end of four years the students of OpenArc who obtain the BIT Degree become Software Developers with broad theo-retical knowledge, sound prac-

tical experience of three years in software development a methodical training and pro-fessional experience. Om top of all these we are maintaining a methodical programme to develop their innovative ideas, leadership qualities, positive attitudes, discipline and behav-ior as well. Students of no other internal or external degree programme in any uni-versity of Sri Lanka will give the students a marvelous opportunity such as this.”

The primary objective of the OpenArc “Navodaya” Scholar-ship Programme is to identify students with an inborn talent and aptitude for software development and helping them to develop into world-class Software Development Engi-neers. The biggest problem in this sphere in Sri Lanka is the lack of human resources. Only by developing the necessary human resource can Sri Lanka lead in global information tech-nology.

OpenArc is a pioneer educa-tional institution that has been conducting lectures for the University of Colombo’s BIT Degree Programme from its’ inception in the year 2000 and it has shown best of results throughout the history.

OpenArc that had been

involved in IT higher educa-tion continuously for a period of over 20 years, has produced over 2000 Software Profes-sional who are presently work-ing for leading companies in Sri Lanka and overseas hold-ing very high positions.

The software arm of the OpenArc Group, OpenArc Sys-tems Management, is a reput-ed software company provid-ing software solutions for banks, financial institutions and stock broking firms.

OpenArc Systems Manage-ment is the market leader in Banking & Finance software with a market share of over 75%. OpenArc Systems Man-agement has computerized the leasing operations of a large number of leading state and private sector financial institu-tions such as DFCC Bank, Bank of Ceylon, DFCC Vard-hana bank, Seylan Bank and Peoples Leasing Limited.

Further details of the ‘Navo-daya’ Scholarship Programme could be obtained from the OpenArc School of Business and Technology, No. 120, High Level Road, Kirulapona, Colombo 06 and by emailing info@openarc.edu.lk.

Their website are www.ope-narc.edu.lk and www.openarc.lk

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