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.
