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Vocational training, an investment - Dr. T.A. Piyasiri by Ramani Kangaraarachchi The absence of proper costing mechanisms, over dependency of public institutions on government grants and inadequate private sector investment for broadbased vocational education and training are the main problems associated with financing and sustaining technical education and vocational training in Sri Lanka said Director General Tertiary and Vocational Training Commission Dr. T.A. Piyasiri. He was addressing a seminar yesterday on Financing and Sustaining Technical Education and Vocational Training at the BMICH. He said that vocational and technical education is necessary to supply skilled manpower for national development, poverty alleviation and to form the basis of sustainable economic and social development for the country. He proposed four strategies to overcome these problems. Firstly, an establishment of costing mechanisms, secondly rationalisation of state sector training programs and cost reduction, thirdly to have strategies to increase the income generation in public sector institutions and finally to direct private sector participation in vocational education and training. At present Technical and Vocational Education and Training is financed by the government and private sector directly, fees paid by the trainees, training with production, various donor training funds and incentives given to private, NGO sector by the government. Piyasiri said that the cost of education and training must be considered an investment and it is a joint responsibility of both the state and the private sector as it plays an important role in the socio-economic growth of the country. |
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