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 is to
find out about the status of vocational training and education among youth of
the Lunugala Divisional Secretariat. Here, in order to achieve these identifying
factors that influence the demand of vocational education in the research area,
find out the motivating factors that induce vocational training and education,
identifying the challenges of Lunugala area youth to get vocational education,
and put forward the suggestion to achieve good education. Here, 122
advanced-level students of the Lunugala area those who failed pass the AL
examination in 2018 are taken as a sample size to collect the primary data by
providing a questionnaire. This data analysis uses STATA and MS Excel
software. The 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 found a positive relationship between dependent and
independent variables, except for the number of family members, and that
giving vocational training and education to students would reduce
unemployment in this research area. As a result of this research, it is proposed
that students become more aware of vocational training and education, and
that the government establish vocational training and education centers.
