Contribution of Faculty of Commerce and Management ,Eastern University , sri Lanka Towrd the Enhancement of Graduate Employability

Abstract

There is a growing awareness in Sri Lanka of the importance of higher education in providing the innovation and creativity for the development of a knowledge-based economy in an increasingly competitive global market. Both higher education and the graduate labour market are changing rapidly. The student intake is becoming more diverse, in age, background, previous educational experience and interests and ambitions, although the government’s effort to broaden the social base of the undergraduate population has recently been characterized as a limited success. Increasingly, widening participation issues have moved forward through the student experience from access, to support and retention to successful completion and towards job acquisition. Meanwhile, the emphasis of employabilityhas shifted from job-market intelligenceand job-getting techniques to developing a range of attributes through the learning process, with some institutions taking a holistic strategic approach. There is a growing emphasis on enabling students and empowering them to take advantage of their educational experience. The Faculty of Commerce and Management Eastern University Sri Lanka offers programmes designed to provide students with a sound understanding of the functions of Business and their inter-relationships. This studyaims to find“Howfar the coursesofferedby the Facultyof Commerce and Management, Eastern University Sri Lanka enhance graduate employability”. The study tends to find out the extent of training, IT and language development, transferable skills and course structure. The results show that the Contribution of the faculty of Commerce and Management, Eastern University, Sri Lanka to enhancement the Graduate Employability” is in moderate level.