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Background of "The JSCoT Project"

Although Sri Lanka shows favorable economic growth recently, the employment situation (the unemployment rate 8.8%, 2002)still remains grim. Especially, the unemployment youth (less than 24 years old) occupied about 70% of all unemployment in 2002.

In the meantime, there are many challenges in vocational training institutions in Sri Lanka, such as undeveloped vocational training facilities, duplications of training courses, mismatch between trained students and skilled labor force, industries are looking for. Especially, 36 Technical Colleges under Department of Technical Education and Training (DTET) need to strengthen their linkage with industries since the mismatch between training contents and industry needs has often been pointed out.

To realize the constitutional improvement of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector, the Sri Lankan Government presses forward with comprehensive measures such as rationalization of training institutions and introduction of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) Framework and enhancement of the linkage between vocational training administration and industries.

One of the concrete reforms for rationalization of training institutions is to promote one Technical College (TC) in each province (there are nine provinces in the whole country) to a College of Technology (CoT) which carries out the Diploma courses. These Diploma courses are applied to NVQ Levels 5&6 and aim at fostering technicians which are in high demand in industries.

In this context, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has decided to provide technical assistance to Maradana College of Technology(MARADANA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY's web site:*Refer to "Related Links"page.) in Colombo with the establishment of three model courses, such as Mechatoronics , Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Metal Work. Japan has the advantage to provide these technologies and there is also high demand for these three trades in Sri Lanka.

This project emphasizes to establish three model courses and transfer the course management techniques to the Sri Lankan side. It is expected that the management techniques will be utilized for the establishment and management of other Colleges of Technology by the Sri Lankan side.

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