EDEX
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| Founded | 2004 |
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| Founder | Royal College Union |
| Type | Social Responsibility Project |
| Focus | Education and careers guidance |
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| Origins | RCU career guidance programmes |
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Area served
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Sri Lanka |
| Method | Exhibitions, publication, web portal |
| Owner | Royal College Union |
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Key people
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Kamal Abeysinghe, Chairman |
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Volunteers
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150 |
| Slogan | To empower Sri Lankan youth to be globally competitive |
| Website | www |
EDEX is a multi-stakeholder initiative promoted by the Royal College Union, the alumni association of Royal College Colombo, Sri Lanka. Launched as the annual social responsibility project of Royal College Union with the vision To empower Sri Lankan youth to be globally competitive; EDEX has emerged from being an education and careers exhibition to a multi disciplinary voluntary service organisation that serves the nation with many value additions, including EDEX Expo, EDEX Careers, EDEX Magazine, EDEX Think Green, EDEX Sithuwam and EDEX Live Your Dream.
The Presidential Secretariat and Sri Lanka’s Ministries of Education, Higher Education, Youth Affairs and Skills Development and Labour and Labour Relations have continuously endorsed EDEX. EDEX has now transformed to be a unique multi faceted organisation sustained by a passionate group of volunteers who contribute their time, effort, professional expertise and even personal finances at times of need, to make a positive difference in Sri Lankan society. Over the years the EDEX annual career fair and exhibition has become the primer career fair in the country and a national event with the primary the exhibition taking place at BMICH, Colombo followed by a secondary exhibition taking pace at Kancy City Center, Kandy a few weeks later. It is organized by the Royal College Union (RCU) in collaboration with the Government of Sri Lanka.
Roots of EDEX stretch far back to late 1990s, when the Royal College Union started to organise annual career guidance programmes for the benefit of senior students. These seminars revealed a lacklustre attitude among most students and even their parents whose minds were fixed to become doctors, engineers, accountants and lawyers – the kind of professions widely regarded to be the only ‘elite’ ones at the time. Although new lucrative career options were emerging in numerous fields most students were not very keen to consider different options. With limited opportunities of admission to local universities in the preferred fields and in the absence of credible optional career guidance, these youth wasted a great deal of time, effort and money, failing to realize economic and opportunity costs of unfocused and ad hoc career planning.
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