Understanding the New VAT Amendment Bill
A Webinar conducted by the Chambers Academy.
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During the course we will be focusing on lecture series titles ‘Justice’ conducted by Michael Sanders at Harvard University.
We would watch 2 lectures at a time and have an internal discussion among ourselves and then finally go for a discussion with Nishan.
At this discussion , Nishan will be grading participants based on their arguments and points put forward. After which a selected few would be chosen for higher level discussions of research papers chosen by Nishan.
The purpose of this club is to exercise our analytical muscles and start thinking of solutions to world problems. The discussions will also enable us to view concepts and theories from a perspective that is different from our own , helping us to widen our horizons.
About Michael SandelMichael Joseph Sandel is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the 2011's "most influential foreign figure of the year". He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
- Teacher: Hafsa Hanifa
- Teacher: Nishana Weerasooriya
Members of the Think Club read and discuss articles related to a wide range of humanities topics including Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics, Justice, and Ethics. The purpose is to exercise members' analytical muscle; further enhance the knowledge of staff beyond their usual work; and brainstorm new ideas to influence the society in a positive way.
The
University runs and provides support services to other teams within VR to
co-ordinate and conduct training sessions and seminars that occur on a one-time
or yearly basis.
In this course a small group of students are given the opportunity to work with Gehan on a one-to-one basis to improve their writing skills. This will involve submitting writing samples and re-writing these based on feedback.
- Teacher: Gehan Gunatilleke
This is a voluntary, beginner-level spoken course on the Sinhala language. Lessons will take place on a weekly basis from January 31st, 2020 on Fridays from 2-3.30 pm. A course book created by Malithi Alahapperuma will be used to guide students through the course. Students will practice their speaking ability through conversation with native Sinhala speakers.
- Teacher: Nethma Atapattu
- Teacher: Kovida Gunasekara
- Teacher: Supun Jayawardena
- Teacher: Tirani Wijewickrama
Participants will have the opportunity to improve their spoken Tamil through conversing with native speakers.
An overview of major events in World and Sri Lankan History
- Teacher: Mathisha Arangala
- Teacher: Malsirini de Silva
- Teacher: Anushan Kapilan
This assessment consists of several multiple choice questions, administered through a third-party platform, and is designed to test your proficiency in using the MS Powerpoint application
This assessment consists of several multiple choice questions, administered through a third-party platform, and is designed to test your proficiency in using the MS Excel application
This assessment consists of several multiple choice questions and is designed to test your proficiency in using the MS Word application
Participants in this course will only be required to pass an assessment that tests their ability to use MS Word and their knowledge of the VR style guide. There is no other learning material for this course. This quarter's assessment will be held on Friday 8th November from 3-5pm in the boardroom.
- Teacher: Chalani Ranwala
This course assesses participant's ability to use MS Excel. An online Excel course is available for perusal but is not mandatory. The main requirement is to pass the assessment that requires the manipulation of a raw data according to a certain set of criteria.
- Teacher: Anushan Kapilan
Tracks Assistant Analysts' completion of Minimum Position Requirements
- Teacher: Subhashini Abeysinghe
- Teacher: Deepanjalie Abeywardana
- Teacher: Deshal de Mel
- Teacher: Aaseem Mohamed
- Teacher: thashiya nauki
- Teacher: Chalani Ranwala
- Teacher: Nishana Weerasooriya
- Teacher: Deepanjalie Abeywardana
- Teacher: Aaseem Mohamed
- Teacher: thashiya nauki
- Teacher: Nishana Weerasooriya
The Management Study Group mixes self-study and small group discussion to assist participants to develop their management skills.
Attend 2 TMA briefings
This course consists of one seminar conducted by the Comms cluster which will allow participants to gain insight into the role of communications at VR.
- Teacher: Chalani Ranwala
This will be a series of workshops on data design and infographics creation, which will include a component in which participants will have to create and edit infographics, based on feedback.
This is an introductory course for researchers on the statistical software, Stata, by Mihindu. Stata can be used for data management, data analysis, and is useful in producing graphical visualizations of data. Software will be provided.
This will be a bi-weekly course conducted on Tuesdays from 3-5 pm.
This assessment tests staff’s understanding of plagiarism (Note: all staff except those involved in only Operations are required to complete assessment). This assessment is administered by the VR University.
Tracks Research Assistants' completion of Minimum Position Requirements
- Teacher: Subhashini Abeysinghe
- Teacher: Deepanjalie Abeywardana
- Teacher: Deshal de Mel
- Teacher: Aaseem Mohamed
- Teacher: thashiya nauki
- Teacher: Chalani Ranwala
- Teacher: Dean Verite Research
- Teacher: Nishana Weerasooriya
මෙම ඇගයිම VR හි සේවක මාර්ගෝපදේශය පිළිබඳ දැනුම පරීක්ෂා කරන අතර එය පරිපාලනය කරනු ලබන්නේ මානව සම්පත් විසිනි
වෙරිටෙ රිසර්ච් රහස්යභාවය සහ විස්වාසවන්තභාවය පිළිබඳ ගිවිසුම - බහුවරණ ප්රශ්න මාලාව
This
assessment tests knowledge of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and is administered
by HR
This assessment tests individual’s knowledge of VR’s employee guide and is administered by HR.
