This report contains an analysis of technical training programmes totally funded by the
Germany and Japan. This study mainly focuses to analyze the effect on major training
programmes developed in German and Japanese funded training institutes by these two
countries.
Ceylon German Technical Training Institute and D I M O Automobile Training Institute,
which were totally funded by Germany and Construction Equipment Training Center and
Automobile Engineering Training institute, which were totally funded by Japan, were
selected for analysis.
The main objective of this report is to analyze effect of technical training programmes
developed by Germany and Japan to the Sri Lankan technical education sector. Also,
formulate strategies for future development of foreign funded technical training projects.
The main training programme developed by four training institutes was selected for
analysis.
The data collection methods adopted for this study involved collecting primary data and
making use of project reports, agreements signed by both parties, evaluation reports,
annual reports etc.. Primary data was collected through questionnaires for passed out
technicians, present final year students, employers of the passed out technicians, training
officers and managers relevant to each training institutes.
According to the results, the training programmes funded by Germany and Japan are
success. However, in some of the aspects training programmes funded by Germany
shows higher performance than training programmes funded by Japan. The strategies
were identified for future foreign funded technical training programmes.
