Informatics Global Campus - Learning Redefined

Informatics Global Campus (IGC) also known as PurpleTrain.com was offically launched in 1999 as Asia’s first Global e-learning institution and is the largest outside USA. To date IGC has trained more than 72,000 e-learners coming from more than 68 countrie4s worldwide. IGC caters primarily to the learning needs of the adult/mature learner community. To this end, IGC offers an array of academic and professional development programmes. These programmes are all individually quality assured by top UK universities in one way or another. IGC is unique because it recognises that the adult/mature learner community has different needs due to their careers and lifestyles and thus delivers its array of programmes through a number of delivery modes, namely online, mobile and distance learning to suit its adult/mature students better.

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Head of Faculties

Ms. Preethi Kesavan
MSc in Software Engineering (Andrews University)

Ms. Preethi obtained her Masters in Software Engineering from Andrews University and Bachelor of Engineering. She has recently also obtained the MSc IS from Nanyang Technological University and has been teaching and managing various programmes at Informatics Education since 1994.

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Dr Teo Kim Heng
Head of Info-Comm
Technology Faculty

Dr. Teo obtained his PhD in computer science from University of Oklahoma (USA). He joined the school in year 2001 and has been teaching Operating Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithm Theory, Artificial Intelligence, System Implementation, Database System, Software Design, Knowledge-Base Systems and Formal Languages subjects from universities such as University of Wales, Curtin and University of Portsmouth since he joined Informatics.

Prior joining the school, Dr. Teo was a teaching fellow with National University of Singapore and an Associate Professor with National Taipei University.

He has published more than ten papers in the international journals and
conference proceedings to date.

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Dr Sein Min
Head of Business
Faculty

Dr. Sein graduated from the Institute of Economics, Yangon, Myanmar, majoring in Commerce (B. Com.) in 1977.

In 1983, he obtained a Master of Commerce (M. Com.) degree from the same institute. He specialised in marketing for his doctorate at the University of Passau, Germany and attained Dr. rer. pol. in 1991.

He has been a tutor, assistant lecturer and subsequently, lecturer in the
Department of Commerce and the Department of Management Studies in the Institute of Economics, Yangon, from 1978 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as the Associate Professor of the Economics Department in the University of Distance Education, Yangon, Myanmar. He was a Research Fellow of the Department of Marketing and Sales, University of Passau, Germany in 1995 and 2001. His areas of research interests include innovation diffusion, marketing-mix strategies and marketing in developing countries.

Dr Sein's interests also do not merely cater to pure academia. In his leisure time, he indulges in a host of ethnographic activities. His hobbies include reading, cultural & religious discourse and dissecting European culture. He also enjoys listening to western classical music, Mozart and Beethoven.

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