Vocational training for youth

Stanley Seneviratne Kurunegala North group corr

In a bid to give professional training and ensure a bright future for the younger generation within the Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha division who fail to enter the university would be trained in professional skills on the initiative of the Vocational Training Minister Piyasena Gamage.

The Chairman, Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha has taken immediate steps to launch a vocational and professional training scheme for those youth at the Kurunegala and Matale Vocational training centres.

Addressing the media Patrick Karunasinghe, the Chairman Kurunegala PS said that it is the responsibility to give professional training to the youth who fail to enter university as the youth would benefit by the scheme and be profitable citizens who would help the development of the country.

The Chairman also said that only 3 per cent of the student population enter the university for higher studies and as a result there were not much opportunities in the past for the younger generation who fail to proceed to university education or to obtain at least GCE O/L or A/L qualifications end as unskilled labourers, in such event.

He said in order to put an end to this situation the Government has now planned to provide vocational training even for those who fail to proceed for higher education.

The Chairman said that Technical Colleges and Vocational training centres have introduced a series of courses aimed at youth who possess varied skills and they can follow a course of their choice and specialize in their chosen fields.