It is a complete guide for people specially for girls students to decide their education and career in Sri Lanka

1. AFTER ADVANCED
LEVEL IN
SRILANKA
SPECIALLY FOR GIRLS
Presented by :
FHA. Shibly
Lecturer in IT
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
Oluvil

2. Opportunities for Higher Studies
 Government Universities
 Proffessional Institutes
 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri
Lanka (ICASL)
 The Association of Chartered Certified
Accountants (ACCA)
 Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants
(CIMA)
 The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
 Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM)
 Institute of Personnel Management (IPM)
 The Tea Research Institute (TRI)
 Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (IBSL)
 Etc
 Higher Education Institutes
 Sri Lanka Institute if Information Technology
(SLIIT)
 National Institute of Business Management
(NIBM)
 Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological
Education (SLIATE)
 Vocational Training Institutes
 Vocational Training Authority of Sri Lanka
(VTASL)
 German Technical Training Institute (GTTI)
 Private Institutes
 Foreign Universities

3. Available Courses
 Medicine
 Engineering
 Management
 Arts
 Information Technology
 Agriculture
 Accounting & Finance
 Science
 Humanities
 Tourism Studies
 Environmental Studies
 Beauty Culture
 Photography and film
 Textile and Garments
 Gem & Jewellery
 Fisheries Industry
 Law
 Islamic Studies

4. How is the world changing?

5. Forces changing skill demands
 Automation
 Globalization
 Workplace change
 Demographic change
 Personal risk and responsibility

6. Automation

7. Globalization

8. Workplace change

9. Demographic change

10. Personal risk and responsibility

11. Emerging Courses in the University system
 Medical Engineering
 Aerospace Engineering
 Nuclear Power
 Animal Psychology
 Oceanography
 Nano Technology
 Green Computing
 Petroleum Engineering
 Fashion Technology
 Robot Technology
 Artificial Intelligence
 Micro Biology
 Etc

12. Women in Education
 One of the social groups that has most benefited from the revolutionary education
reforms implemented starting 1947 is Women.
 In 1946, when the overall literacy rate for the country was 57.8%, only 43.8% of the
female population was literate as opposed to 70.1% of the male population.
 By 2001, however, the percentage of literate women had gone up to 90% of the
female population in comparison with 93% for the male population.
 Sri Lanka has been ranked 16th in the world for gender equality in the Global Gender
Gap Index, way ahead of many developed countries.
 Globaly, in the university system over 65% of the students population is Female. Even
in Sri Lanka, almost same.

13. Percentages of Girls in Universities

14. Recommended Courses for GIRLS
 Medicine
 Bio Engineering
 Computer Science and IT
 Aerospace Engineering
 Management
 Research & Developments
 Accountancy & Finance
 Psychology
 Social Sciences
 Gender Studies
 Arts/Performing Arts
 Law
 Islamic Banking

15. Regional Context: Characteristics of the Labor Force
Category BAN BHU IND MLD NEP SRI
Share of population aged 15-19 who attained at least grade 5
Male 70 55.1 81.9 95.1 74.5 95.1
Female 78.4 41.4 71.6 95.7 56.3 95.8
All 73.8 48 77.2 95.4 65.1 95.4
Share of population aged 20-29 who attained at least grade 10
Male 28.9 19.3 35.8 34.4 33.5 45.7
Female 18.5 9.5 23.6 37.1 17.2 51.1
All 23.2 13.7 29.7 35.5 23.9 48.4
Share of population aged 20-29 who attained at least grade 12
Male 16.4 5.7 21.3 22.2 9.2 16.8
Female 8.7 2.9 14.6 24.6 4.2 22.9
All 12.2 4.1 18 23.2 6.3 19.9
Source: The Knowledge Economy and Education and Training in South Asia, WB 2007

16. Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Vision
Mahinda Chinthana Idiri Dekma
Naval
Hub
Energy
Hub
Aviation
Hub
Commercial
Hub
Knowledge
Hub
Sri Lanka - Miracle of Asia

17. Higher Education in Sri Lanka - Challenges and Opportunities
State sector HE structure Post Advanced level Study Options
 15 National Universities
 2 Buddhist Universities
 17 HE Institutes
 12 Advance Technological Institutes
 8 degree awarding institutes
 27 professional institutes
 36 non-state HEIs providing Degrees, Diplomas and
Certificates programs locally
Supply vs. Demand
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18. Major Programs
 Responsible HEIs
 Globally Employable Graduates & World Class
Universities
 100% Employable Graduates
 Improving Leadership & Soft Skills
 Professional Graduates
 Enterprising Graduates
 ICT – Based Management
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19. 19
Responding to Challenges
Assurance: Standards, Assessment, Accreditation
Good Governance & Management
Faculty
Development
Improving Access &
Learning
Excellence in
Research
Relevance to
National Priorities
Support Core
Infrastructure Development: Physical, Technology
06.02. 2013 Sri Lanka – To be an International Hub of Excellence for Higher Education by 2020

20. What kind of knowledge and skills will young people need?

21. More important in the 21st Century
 Postsecondary education and training
 Academic knowledge and skills
 Practical literacies: The ability to use knowledge of math, English,
science, civics etc. to meet real-world challenges.
 Broader competencies: Critical thinking and problem solving,
communications and collaboration, creativity, self-sufficiency etc.

22. Broad competencies: Employers expect them to become more
important
64%
67%
67%
66%
75%
75%
74%
74%
64%
64%
64%
63%
Critical thinking/Problem solving
Information technology application
Teamwork/Collaboration
Creativity/Innovation
Handling diversity
Leadership
Oral communications
Work ethic
Ethics
Written communications
Self-direction/Lifelong learning
Foreign languages
50% 75%
Percent of employers who believe skill will become more important over next five years
Source: Conference Board. (2006). Are they really ready to work? (p. 49, Table 12)

23. Broad Competencies: Which are most critical? The 3 C’s!
 Critical thinking and problem solving
 Labor economists Levy & Murnane call it “expert thinking”
 Communication/Collaboration
 Levy and Murnane call it “complex communications”
 Creativity

24. ALL THE BEST FOR
YOUR GREAT FUTURE