Our Vision "To be an institute of excellence totally committed to advance the human resource as mature, intelligent 'knowledge-users' equipped to face challenging global situations and fortify the human foundation of our national development" Our Mission Facilitate to obtain a comprehensive higher-level education through Total Quality Management process so that the capabilities of all "earn and learn" work-groups consisting employees, employers and entrepreneurs would be developed Further facilitate the advancement of their analytical and critical thinking capabilities, ethical standards, entrepreneurship skills, leadership qualities, and the understanding that their responsibilities and rights are interdependent Endeavour to produce knowledge-work groups as an advanced human resource entity set to make an effective contribution to the 'knowledge-economy' of the country About IHRA The Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA) is one of the Institutes attached to the University of Colombo (IHRA-UOC) and it has been established under the Ordinance No.11 of 1979 which was amended by Ordinance No. 01 of 2006. IHRA is advancing according to the global and local developments through the “knowledge economy”. The state controlled Sri Lankan Universities and Institutes have been recently categorized by the Treasury as Educational Agencies (Public Enterprises Circular 58(2) dated 15 Sep 2011). The Board of Management of the Institute is called as the Academic Syndicate, and it is chaired by the Director. Unlike in other Non-Commercial Enterprises the Director has the Chairman’s role as well as the Chief Financial Officer and the Administrative Head in addition to a heavy load of Academic responsibilities. The main objective of educating the employed “work-groups” remains the same although the term “knowledge workers” was not used in the past when this Institute was established. However, present knowledge-worker category includes both the management categories as well as the traditional worker groups, and present objectives of the institute are applicable to advance any category of “knowledge workers” Universities and Institutes have a greater responsibility to guide the country in correct development path, and educate not only the undergraduates but also the work-groups (knowledge workers) of the country including the decision makers. Unless the current work-groups and decision makers are not updated with fast changing knowledge in the world, country will not be able to go forward as expected. The basic concept of IWE was, and presently that of IHRA is, to serve the country by educating “knowledge workers” while keeping the international University organizational standards. Although, the IHRA-UoC accommodates annually for about 15,000 students, it has only 04 permanent academic lecturer positions, 03 middle grade Administrative posts, and 01 Senior Assistant Librarian post. The total number of State funded positions is around 3