Sri Lanka and India get down to business

[Francis Hult]

Guardian

 

Sri Lanka and India get down to business 

 

Fearful of being left behind by India's growing dominance of the international outsourcing industry, Sri Lanka has launched an English language learning initiative aimed at raising workers' skills. In contrast to Bangladesh, which has appealed for English language training help from Britain's Department for International Development (27m to gain "language of prosperity", April 4), the Sri Lankan government is enlisting expertise from India. 

 

President Mahinda Rajapaksa last month invited leading language training providers from India to meet Sri Lankan investors to explore joint ventures at a three-day "English Teaching Business Mela" in Colombo. The "English as a Life Skill" initiative is intended to provide special loans to 50,000 young people aged between 18 and 24 over three years, to help them access training in work-related English skills.

 

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