<P> The Computing Services Centre is the Consultancy arm of the UCSC . It was established in 1990 to provide Consultancy Services to the IT and related industries . The activities undertaken by the Computing Services Centre are threefold . Those are short term training courses, software development and consultancy services . </P> <P> Digital Forensics Centre of the UCSC was established in 2011 . One UCSC and two international academics are advisors of the centre . Centre facilities is been strengthen using a generous donation of US $25,000.00 by a UOC Alumni . Centre has taken over the role of assisting the Sri Lanka Police and the Criminal investigation department which the UCSC undertook since 2003 . Requests to support in finding evidence for digital crime cases have been consistently increased during last few years with over 50 court cases in the form of Forgery, Frauds, Illegal, Pornography and Terrorist handled annually at cost . </P> <P> The e-Learning Centre was established in 2002 at the University of Colombo School of Computing to provide e-learning Service to both internal and external students of UCSC . UCSC external degree program, BIT, was supported by e-learning service from 2003 using learning management facilities . This work was started as a collaborative project with Sweden partner organization, Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV). The project is financed by the Sida (Swedish International Development Agency) and it was conducted as a pilot project to identify the applicability of e-learning . As a result of this pilot project, it was decided to longer term project to strength e-learning initiatives at UCSC and to extend e-learning consultancy and services other universities and whole nation . </P> <P> The main purpose of establishing the External Degrees Centre and the three--year external degree programme, Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) is to widen the higher educational opportunities of the students who have been unsuccessful in meeting the competitive eligibility criteria for admission to the state university system . </P>

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