- Colombo Institute of Research & Psychology
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Colombo Institute of Research and Psychology is a higher educational institution in Sri Lanka dedicated to providing education in the field of Psychology. CIRP also focuses on promoting research among the young population of the country.
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Motives of the Institute
The Colombo Institute of Research & Psychology is an organization that was incorporated by a group of young professionals in the fields of medicine, psychology and business. The motive that brought together these young individuals in these different fields was to address an issue that was ignored by the existing educational establishments in Sri Lanka for decades, i e; lack of research and innovation in the Sri Lankan education system.
Sri Lanka is one of the few countries with a free education system from kindergarten to university level but unfortunately the term “free” could only be applied to the “free of charge” part, as the system hardly encourages free thinking. As a result, the nation is full of graduates with various paper qualifications but anything new or innovative hardly comes out.
Graduates turned out by this system, molded by traditional education and with their brains conditioned to think nothing against the text books, continue to serve and maintain the system.
CIRP was started with the aim of promoting research and related studies popular among the young generation of Sri Lanka. The main goal of CIRP is to inspire an appreciation of unconstrained thinking, creativity and innovation among the youth of the nation.
The Institute has four divisions dedicated to different disciplines
Academic Division - Provides higher education in Psychology and Research methodologies
Research Division - Involved with research in several areas of Psychology,Sociology and HRD
Cooperate Division - Provides services to organizations in terms of Training & Development
Clinical Division - Provides Counseling and Psycho-therapeutic servicesAcademic Division
High School Psychology
CIRP is considered the pioneer private institute to offer Psychology as a subject at high school level in Sri Lanka. Since the establishment of its London AL section, CIRP has has guided thousands of students for both CIE (Cambridge International Examinations) and Edexcel AS and A Level Psychology. The AL section is personally supervised by Dr. Darshan Perera, the academic director of the institute. Cambridge AL Psychology prizes in 2008,2009 and 2010 were achieved by Ms.Sabrina Carder, Ms.Astrid Alawattegama and Ms.Maleena Awn... all students taught by Dr.Darshan. The Institute was recognized as the best institute to offer high school psychology by the Edexcel Sri Lanka office and entered in to an academic alliance with CIRP to promote psychology among the youth in Sri Lanka. Together with Edexcel office in Sri Lanka, CIRP has been conducting various seminars and work shops at several educational establishments in the country to promote psychology as a high school subject.
Currently CIRP is in an academic partnership with Ladies College, Colombo, one of the most prestigious girl schools in the country. CIRP facilitates Ladies college by providing lecturers and sharing resources. It is considered that around 80% of the students offering Psychology for AL study at CIRP.
Research Division
The research division of CIRP was established with the aim of making a significant contribution to the global exploration of knowledge by gathering, evaluating and analyzing information on various human behaviors and thinking patterns to facilitate the efforts to improve the quality of life of humans and to strengthen human species to face present and future challenges to their survival. In par with the vision of CIRP, our research division believes that the younger generation should play a pivotal role in the process of making the field of research popular in Sri Lanka, thus we strive to inspire an appreciation of innovation, creativity and unconstrained thinking among youth varying from high school students to young academics and amateur researchers.
References
The Sunday Times, Sunday February 27, 2011
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