Retired Major General Priyantha Weerasinghe, Director of the Sri Lanka Vocational Training Authority, has stated that it has been decided to introduce forty-four new training courses to meet the foreign job demand.
“These courses have been started related to nursing and tourism hotel sector. And these are short term training courses of three months. In the year 2023, thirty nine thousand apprentices were recruited for one hundred and four training courses implemented by the Sri Lanka Vocational Training Authority. But due to the demand for foreign jobs, it is expected to hire a group of forty thousand apprentices in the coming year 2024,” said the Director General.
He has further stated that although the Vocational Training Authority currently has two hundred and four centers across the country, there may be differences in the number of apprentices recruited to each center depending on the facilities available in them.
With the aim of providing jobs to three thousand certificate holders who have successfully completed the training courses of the Vocational Training Authority, the same authority has also prepared to hold a local and foreign job market at the main center of the Vocational Training Authority at Alvitigala Mawatha, Narahenpita.
Twenty foreign employment agencies and thirty local employment agencies are going to participate in this and it is said that this job market will be held on the 12th.