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Sri Lanka Education Forum » Birth Control for Higher Ed? — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:57:24 +0000

[...] A Labor Market Observatory for Sri Lanka 5 Thanushi Hettipathirana, Thilini Mahindadasa, Caroline Fawcett, sujata, Janin [...]

By: Thanushi Hettipathirana

Thanushi Hettipathirana — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:17:00 +0000

Im a postgraduate student at the University of Colombo who’s keen on investigating the graduate labour market of Sri Lanka. I appreciate very much these efforts of the responsible bodies towards setting up a web site comprising of information on graduate labour market of SriLanka. In my view this should place more emphasis on the Graduate Labour Market than the Vocational sector since the TVEC already publishes a biannual labour bulletine to do with the sector.

Further, I’ll be very grateful if you could e-mail me some data and information on the nature of Labour Market Demand Trends for English language graduates in Sri Lanka.

By: Thilini Mahindadasa

Thilini Mahindadasa — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:07:08 +0000

Im a student in University of Colombo. I just need to have some information on labour market trends in Sri Lanka, Specially I need details in post indipendent Sri Lanka.
So, I’d like to be very grateful to youIf you can email me some factores on it.

By: Caroline Fawcett

Caroline Fawcett — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:15:47 +0000

Great to see the web-net discussion. I have recently been in Sri Lanka to study the youth employment and training challenges. The Labor Market Laboratory is a great idea, and would give specific meat to the issue of the tertiary expectations and how to adjust them. Also, it would be so interesting to include non-university in your sampling and services, working with a network of technical education institutes (non-public). Look forward to work!

By: sujata

sujata — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:25:14 +0000

What you are seeing here is really not a start but a list of recommendations that are largely based on my presentation to the deans and the members of the IRQUE project team at the meeting. Whether these recommendations will be implemented is yet to be seen.

You raise another very important point about the need to give more recognition to vocational training and skills development. We have an organization for that purpose. It is the Tertairy and Vocational Education Commission (tvec.gov.lk). It is the brainchild of Mr. Ranil Wichremasinghe. TVEC is a well designed and amply empowered organization. Although it has continued to function as one of the more effective governmental agencies, in my opinion TVEC is still performing well below its true potential to transform technical education and vocational training.

By: Janin

Janin — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:05:16 +0000

A very admirable start as most of these initiatives are at least initially here in Sri Lanka, but will it really tackle the problem that our education system is weighted too much to the side of the academics. Those without any academic abilities are still locked out of tertiary education and are reliant on their employer giving them some modicum of training the extent of which is variable. What we really need in my opinion is a more balanced situation with more inclusion of vocational training and skills development. Maybe a Vocational skills council – There is more to education than university, hard as that is for some sri lankans to swallow.