Internationalising Higher Education

Through funding from the Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education (PMI2), a collaborative training programme was established to enhance the quality of milk production in Sri Lanka. Royal Veterinary College, UK worked on the project with the faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Sri Lanka (FVMAS) from 2008-09 June. Two training courses were developed, one for veterinarians and one for farmers. The course for veterinarians was developed as a three day workshop and was conducted in November 2008 in two provinces in Sri Lanka. A total of 60 government veterinarians attended. The course had two objectives: firstly, for veterinarians' to identify how milk is contaminated throughout the production chain from the farm to the milk processing centre, and secondly, to enable veterinarians to identify other stakeholders who require training in the milk production chain. The training course is now being run by FVMAS and has also been incorporated in the MVSc in Veterinary Public Health offered by FVMAS. The training for farmers has been developed as videos in Sinhalese and Tamil, and the videos are being used by farmer training programmes. This poster will discuss the project, as well as challenges faced, findings and recommendations to milk processing plants.