Vocational Education in Sri Lanka

The NVQ system provides a strong basis for quality vocational training but the devil is in its implementation. First, there has to be a hunger and appreciation for quality learning and training rather than certificate collection. That means learning problem solving and practical skills that make one employable. Secondly, a test of employability is critical. Tracer studies of all trainees done six months after classroom, and then on the job training, is revealing. We learn what we are doing well and not so well. It helps us work with our partners and tell them where they are failing and how they might correct that.

Do you think that vocational education can be an alternative option to getting into universities?

Vocational training and university education, do we need both? When 90% of school leavers cannot find a place in universities and most university graduates are unemployed because they lack basic skills from a second language to computers skills to people skills and a flexible work attitude, the answer is YES! In Canada where most school leavers go on to post-secondary education, do we need vocational training more than university education? The answer is yes. For every one university graduate getting a job in Canada there are six community college/vocational training graduates getting a job. A growing number of Canadians when they complete their university studies go for technical training for a job. The range of options is vast from animation work with high demand in Hollywood to culinary arts including a tea sommelier course offered by the Tea Association of Canada with Toronto’s George Brown College and Vancouver’s Community College…

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via Vocational Education in Sri Lank The Island.