About Us
Our Mission
"Creating Excellent Higher National and National Diplomates with Modern Technology for Sustainable Development"
Our Vision
To Become the Centre of Excellence in Technological Education
Main Objectives
"To conduct Higher National Diploma and National Diploma courses in Technological and Business Studies and any other courses as may be determined by the Ministry of Higher Education. To plan and co-ordinate the technical education in Sri Lanka. To conduct the examination, evaluate students and to issue Higher National Diploma and National Diploma."
The Ministry of Higher Education has already formulated policies and strategies and has been implementing the same to bring the education system
of the country equivalent to the standards of the rest of the world. Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technical Education (SLIATE) is one of the leading government institutions
in Higher Education sector in Sri Lanka which was established by the parliament act no 29 of 1995, and it comes under the purview of the Ministry of Higher Education. In 2001
the name of the institution was amended to read as Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education. It functions as an autonomous Institute for the management of
Higher National and National Diploma courses.
The main purposes of establishing SLIATE were to reform and restructure the entire technical and vocational education system
in relation to the changing needs of economic development, to meet manpower requirements of national development strategies, and the promotion of privatization,
with special concern for meeting the scarcity of trained technological manpower resources at the technician level.
SLIATE is focusing on fostering Advanced Technical Education at a post-secondary level. It is mandated to establish Advanced Technological Institute (ATI)
in every province for technological courses. At present it manages and supervises eleven ATIs and Five Sections. SLIATE is headed by a Director General (DG)
while each of its institutes is headed by a Director. All academic sections of SLIATE are headed by Academic Coordinators. There are 16 ATIs
operated by SLIATE island wide conducting a broad range of multi-disciplinary programs targeting A/L qualified students in Sri Lanka. ATI-Kurunegala is one of the ATIs which comes under SLIATE.