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Item The Status of Psychological and Physical Concerns on Utility of English Medium Undergraduates(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Serasinghe, K.H.; Galagama, I.K.; Gunathilaka, S.N.English being recognized as one of foremost communicational tool in various countries and it is most acceptable and popular language other than any other languages. According to Alfitri (2012) 375 million people use English as their first language and 750 million people use English as their second language. English play a major roll within individual lives and as a result of that, utility of English became a major part in each individuals. In academic field English language became prominent language in both staff and undergraduates and leading language of instruction in most of higher education institutions i.e. universities. The main objective of the research was to identify what are the major psychological and physical obstacles face by English medium student within the University premise and as specific objective to examine how demographic nature of student’s influence on their continuation of study in English medium. The research has carried out using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Purposive random sampling method being applied to collect primary data. The sample was consisted with 100 undergraduates under the department of Philosophy, University of Kelaniya. The collected qualitative data through questionnaire has being analysed using SPSS version 22 manually to draw up descriptive statistics. The research has found that, among the total sample 14% of the students face physical difficulties such as body shivering, drowsiness, suffocating, fast heartbeat, and swatting while 32% of students indicated mentally stressed such as feeling uneasy, confuse, shy, sleepy and anger. Therefore, it can be concluding as English become provocative language among the English medium undergraduates and that has been caused by psychological, physiological and demographic factors as well.Item The Problems faced by undergraduates when using the university library system (with special reference to University of Kelaniya)(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Thilakarathna, D.The library is the store of the knowledge. Every educational institution like schools, universities has a library. Is there an increase of using library with the language literacy? is the research problem. Therefore, main focus of this study is to examine the aims of using the library of students and whether they are successful for the students. In this study, 100 students were selected that include 25 students from each faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities, Sciences and Commerce and Management. This survey is based on the clustered sampling method and the data analysis has done using the SPSS software. According to the findings, most students largely use the library only for their educational tasks. 61% of the undergraduates have expressed that the time period given by the library is not enough for their educational tasks and 39% of the undergraduates are agree with the existing time period of the books. 62% of the undergraduates are combined with the language literacy and some of students are unable to engage with the language literacy. 51% of the undergraduates are agree with the support given by the non-academic staff while 49% of the undergraduates did not satisfy with it. According to the Chi square analysis method, gender does not effect on efficiency of using the library. Most students select books depending on the language literacy. Thereby, the study provides strategic suggestions for university libraries to improve on their own university library system, by developing the infrastructure of the library. Then library will be able to increase the usage of the libraryItem Factors affecting on savings behavior of undergraduates (special reference to the undergraduate of University of Kelaniya)(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Senapala, K.A.D.L.Y.M.Savings are one of the major factors affecting towards a successful journey of the country. By the year of 2017, increase in the gross domestic product is recorded as 29.3% in Sri Lanka. There are so many researches about savings based on household and employees. But the number of researches which are done on university students’ savings, is low. This research objective is to investigate the factors affecting the savings behavior of undergraduates based on the University of Kelaniya. Primary data was collected using 100 questionnaires from undergraduates at the University of Kelaniya. The sample was selected based on a step sampling method. Primary data collected on the basis of questionnaires and secondary data which were collected from the Central Bank Report and the Internet. SPSS and Excel are used as software for organize to data. Data analyzed as mean, median, variance, factor analysis and chi square test. Data representations were performed using charts and tables. According to the information provided by the research, 74% of the sample will be spend on savings and 81% of the students will save money by Self Control. 35.4% of students spend on savings in preferences of their parents and 16.9% decided to stay on their experiences. The research reveals that savings are depended on gender, the source of income and the average monthly income. 91% of the sample is already experiencing the benefits of savings and a 99% recognizes that a strong future requires savings. Finally, the conclusion of this research is savings of undergraduate is depending on experience and attitudes of undergraduate not only undergraduate incomeItem The study on Internet information searching and retrieval: with reference to management undergraduate students in University of Kelaniya(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dharamarathne, B.A.N.D.The internet is a network of global exchanges including private, public, business, academic and government networks and the internet is a collection of Computer networks connected to each other and share information interactively. At present, most of students in universities use Internet their educational information needs. However, as informed by literature, students face difficulties when they use Internet technology for information searching and retrieving particular information. This study used survey research method. This study selected 100 final year undergraduate from the Faculty of Management as a study sample. Quantitative data is collected through a structured Questionnaire while Qualitative data were collected through interviews. Secondary data was also used in this study. Collected data were analyzed by using MS Excel.This study found number of issues which are faced by undergraduates when they search and retrieve information in the internet. It way mainly idenify that students have lack of technical skills. It is recommended that more awareness programmes and hand on trainings should be arranged for the faculties identified