Abstract:
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.
