Abstract:
Tertiary education is the determinate of Political, Economic stability and social
progress of society in the world today. The main objective of this study that to find
out about the status of vocational training and education among youth of the
Lunugala Divisional Secretariat. Here, in order to achieve this identifying factors
that influence the demand of vocational education in research area, find out the
motivational factors induce the vocational training and education, identifying the
challenges of Lunugala area youth to get vocational education and put forward the
suggestion to achieve the good education are the sub objective of this study. Here,
122 advanced level students of lunugala area those who fail to pass the AL
examination in 2018 are taken as a sample size to collect the primary data by
providing questionnaire. This data analysis using STATA and MS Excel software.
This research has taken interest as dependent variable and income, the position of
the family, status and member of the family are as independent variable to
identifying the factor that influence the demand for vocational education by using
logistic method and arithmetic mean method used to find out the motivational
factors induce the vocational training and education. The research of this study
were positive relationship between dependent variable and independent variable
except amount of family members and to give the vocational training and
education to students reduce unemployment in this research area. Put forward as
a suggestion of this research are given awareness of vocational training and
education among the students and request the government to establish the
vocational training and education centers.
