Philosophy
The Study offers an outstanding London GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) education for intellectually motivated boys and girls. The focus in this, Sri Lanka’s first Sixth Form College, is on the distinctive nature of education for students from sixteen to nineteen years of age. This model of highly specialised pre-university education has proved extremely successful all over the world; young people in this age group have very specific creative, intellectual, and social requirements and colleges in which faculty can devote their entire attention to meeting these needs are therefore particularly well equipped to provide a worthwhile experience of A-Level education. At The Study, our faculty members are acutely aware that this is a transitional time for successful O-Level students, who expect a very high level of teaching and learning in preparation for subsequent study at the world’s top universities. This learning, while centred on the curriculum of the London Edexcel Foundation, is enhanced by our teachers’ commitment to developing the skills of critical and creative thinking so crucial to success at university and beyond. We also recognise that our pupils should enter university having acquired a firm grounding in local values and with the ability to appreciate and value others that comes from true confidence in oneself. Our pastoral system works side by side with the academic programme to ensure that our pupils leave The Study as conscientious, articulate, well adjusted young men and women ready to meet the demands and challenges of the future.