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3  A study on the impact of industrial training on the employability of the management graduates of state universities in Sri Lanka

The un-employability amonggraduatesisaburningprobleminSriLankaneconomy.Itis argued that thedegreeprogramshavebeen confinedtoconventionalsubjectareasand conventionalteaching-learningmethods. Privatesectorandeven publicsectoraremore concerned on skills and attitudes rather than knowledge possessed by graduates. This researchisspecially focused on theusageofindustrial training on bridging thiscompetency gapamonglocaluniversitygraduates.Thisstudyexplores theimpactofindustrialtrainingon theemployabilityof theManagementGraduateswhoarepassingoutfromTheState UniversitiesinSri Lanka.Althoughaconsiderableamountofliteratureaddresses employabilityskills,muchof theinformationaretheoreticalinnatureandofferprescriptive advices. The paperpresents findings ofa surveythat investigated graduates who went throughanindustrialtrainingandthesubstanceeffectfrom thetrainingtowardsthe employability.Thequantitativeapproachwasusedin thisstudy wherethefindingswere quantifiedandconvertedintomoreprecisemanner.Atotalofthirtysamplepopulationswere selectedforthisexploratory study. DataweregatheredusingaLickertscalequestionnaire. Surveydatawasanalyzedusingdescriptivestatistical toolssuch asmean,median,variance andStandardDeviation.Thefindingssuggestthatthereisadirectandsignificantimpact fromtheindustrial trainingtowardsthepotentialemployability ofthegraduates.Further,the findingssuggestthatthechancesof beingsuccessfulinfindingemploymentandthe sustainabilitywillbebasedonthe richness ofthetrainingthatthegraduateholds.

KeyWords:Graduate, Industry,IndustrialTraining, Employability

Posted by W. D. M. B. K. Dissanayake
Best paper award: W. D. M. B. K. Dissanayake, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka,
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