Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Villa College registered



| DATE: 2007-10-23 | HNS

MALE, October 23, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) -- The Villa Group has registered its college with the Department of Higher Education.

Following the registration of the Villa College, three institutes run under the Villa Group have been converted into Faculties; they are the Faculty of Marine Studies and Water Sports, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology and Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management.

The Tourism and Water Sports Faculties are established at Villa’s Sun Island Resort while the Computing Faculty is set up in the capital Male at Henveiru Green house.

This is the first private college registered in Maldives. The Villa Group belongs to business tycoon Qasim Ibrahim who is also Finance Minister and the Speaker of the People’s Special Majlis, the interim constitutional assembly tasked with amending the constitution by the end of next month.

Orientation programs for the first batch of students for the Computing Faculty were started on Sunday.

The former institutes by Villa were inaugurated in September.

The Higher Education Department was not available for comment yesterday.

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