{"id":6416,"date":"2023-03-10T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/?page_id=6416"},"modified":"2025-01-08T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:18:18","slug":"faculty-milestones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/?page_id=6416","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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\u27a4 Signed MOU with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka \u27a4 Signed MOU with Ontomatrix Pvt Ltd, Safe Foundation and PICTA Organisations \u27a4 An agreement was extended with MAG to conduct English training and other soft skill development programs. \u27a4 A Certificate Course in Professional English was commenced \u27a4 The 27th Faculty Anniversary was celebrated \u27a4 The 5th RCBS Conference was conducted \u27a4 1st undergraduate research symposium on project management (URSPM) was conducted. \u27a4 1st undergraduate conference on Accounting and Finance (URSAF) was conducted \u27a4 2nd International Project Management Day was conducted \u27a4 1st Accounting and Finance Day were hosted \u27a4 The Business Fellowship program was conducted with the collaboration of the Asia Foundation. \u27a4 Centre for Business Research was established \u27a4 Entrepreneurship Student Club was established \u27a4<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\u27a4 Two new honours degree programs in Banking and Insurance and Entrepreneurship were introduced \u27a4 Signed MOU Agreement with ACCA on 13th January 2023 \u27a4 Signed MOU Agreement with People\u2019s Bank in April 2023 \u27a4 The Youth Leadership Programme (YLP) was commenced with the collaborations of UNDP on 31st January 2023. \u27a4 An Agreement was signed with MAG on 22nd of March 2023 and on 22th August 2023 for conducting English training and other soft skill development program respectively. \u27a4 Higher Diploma in English Program was commenced on 27th May 2023. \u27a4<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) hub was established on 20th December 2022. The faculty celebrated the Silver Jubilee on 4th, 5th and 6th of July 2022. The faculty conducted the 4th Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS-2022) as a Silver Jubilee Conference. Five Training and Placement Cells were established in five departments Information<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna has been elevated to as “University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka” by the extraordinary gazette issued on 08th June 2021. Alumni Association of the Faculty of Business Studies (AAFBS) was officially formed on 14th February 2021. Five new student clubs were established to enrich students’ participation in extra-curricular activities. Five new departments were formed as Department of Project Management, Department of Human Resource Management, Department of Marketing Management, Department of Business Economics, and Department of Management and Entrepreneurship by abolishing the Department of Economics and Management, gazette on 22nd March 2021 on the recommendation of the University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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MOU was signed with Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM). Faculty bi-annual newsletter was published. 3rd Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS-2020) was conducted. Mentoring system was introduced for the students.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Bachelor of Business Management (Honours) in Project Management was commenced. The Faculty has obtained “A” grade in the Program Review.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Department of English Language Teaching was established under the Faculty. 2nd Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS-2018) was conducted. Journal of Business Management (JBM) was launched and Volume 01 was published.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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BBM curriculum was revised for the third time in accordance with Sri Lanka Qualifications Framework (SLQF).<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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1st Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS-2016) was conducted.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A new three-year degree programme of BBM in Project Management was commenced from the academic year 2015\/16. 1st Students’ Forum was organized on the theme of “Understanding Domestic Business Context”.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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MOU was signed with the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM). A new specialization of BBM Honours in Human Resource Management was introduced from the academic year 2013\/2014.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The curriculum was revised for the second time based on the suggestions made by the Subject Review teams of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council (QAAC) and the credit values were amended in accordance with the Common Credit Framework released by the UGC. A new specialization of BBM Honours in Business Economics was introduced.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Industry Community Interaction Cell of the Vavuniya Campus (ICICVC) was established. Short courses and community outreach programs have been conducted under this cell.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The BBM curriculum was revised for the academic year 2003\/2004 and students were given opportunity to follow specializations as Accounting and Finance and Marketing Management.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The faculty has started to offer BBM Degree (Four-year degree) with the two specializations: Accountancy and Finance and Management.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Direct intake to the faculty was taken place for the academic year 1997\/1998 and three-year Bachelor of Accountancy and Finance, and Management degrees were offered.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna was established by elevating NPAUC.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6416\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbs.vau.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}