
On the 10th anniversary of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology’s (SLIIT’s) “Soft Skills+”, BMD spoke to Business Professor Samantha Thelijjagoda, Dean of SLIIT Business School on the steps taken in promoting soft skills training for schools providing Advance Level education across the country. This massive island wide programme, has undertaken grooming school children in higher grades with soft skills required to perform well in their higher education and thereafter in the corporate world. SLIIT Business School also runs its own soft skills training programmes for undergraduates of the campus’ business management programmes, to enter the business world with confidence, armed with technical, academic qualifications and acquiring the set of soft skills that would take them to the top of the corporate world.