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Time to First Employment (A special reference to University of Kelaniya)
(Journal of Social Statistics (JSS – 2019), Volume 06, Issue 01. Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Perera, A. P. D. N.; Malagala, D. K. M.; Rasanjalee, M.; Pathirana, P. T.; Ranathunga, R. R. A. L. W.
Graduate Employability means that higher education alumni have developed the capacity to obtain work. The recent experience reveals that even talented graduates have to wait for a long time to be employed after the graduation. Under this circumstance, graduates’ unemployment has become a severe problem in Sri Lanka during the last few decades. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between graduates’ faculties and the time to first employment. The sample was chosen using stratified random sampling method. Under the proportional system, 5% of the total population was selected for the sample. The sample of the survey is only from the latest passed out 100 graduates of University of Kelaniya in 2017. Primary data was collected by giving questionnaires to the selected sample unit. Secondary data was obtained from the academic section of the University of Kelaniya and through literature survey. Collected data was analyzed using the SPSS software and MS Excel. Central tendency measures, Chi square test and Point & Interval estimation were used to analyze the data. Analyzed data was presented using tables and charts. According to the data analysis, the average time of getting the first employment of a graduate is about five months. According to the ANOVA table, P-value is 0.044. Hence it can be concluded that there is significant difference between average time to first employment and faculties at 95% confidence level. Finally, we could conclude that there is a difference between the faculty and time to first employment of graduates as per faculties
Time to first employment (A Special Reference to the Graduates of University of Kelaniya)
(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Perera, A.P.D. N.; Malagala, D.K.M.; Rasanjalee, M.; Pathirana, P.T.; Ranathunga, R. R. A. L. W.
Graduate Employability means that higher education alumni have developed the capacity to obtain work. The recent experience reveals that even talented graduates have to wait for a long time to be employed after the graduation. Many of the graduates have passed out obtain a certificate, which does not help enough them to find suitable employments. Under this circumstance, graduates’ unemployment has become a severe problem in Sri Lanka during the last few decades. Therefore, this study was conducted in order to investigate that, is there a difference between the graduates’ faculties and the time to first employment. The sample was chosen using stratified random sampling method. Under the proportional system, 5% of the total population was selected for the sample. The sample of the survey is only from the latest passed out 100 graduates of university of Kelaniya in 2017. Primary data was collected by giving questionnaires to the selected sample unit. Secondary data was obtained from the academic section of the university of Kelaniya and literature survey. Collected data was analyzed using the SPSS software and MS Excel. Mean as a central tendency measure, Chi square test and Point & Interval estimation were used as analysis methods. Analyzed data was presented by using tables and charts. According to the data analysis, the average time of getting the first employment of a graduate is about five months. According to the ANOVA table, P-value is 0.044. Hence it can be concluded that there is significant difference on average time to first employment as per faculties at 95% confidence level. According to the interval estimation, that is, out of 2038 graduates, a number between 1810 to 2022 may employ by now. Finally, we can conclude that there is a difference between the faculty and time to first employment of graduates as per faculties
Understanding Faculty Contribution for the Institutional Repository: A Case Study at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasekera, C.
An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual productivity of a university. The faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an IR; in fact there is a need to explore their knowledge and willingness to contribute to the IR. The main objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of academic authors towards the IR and the factors that motivate the use of these repositories.Questionnaire based survey method was employed and the self administered questionnaires were distributed among all permanent academic staff members in the University of Peradeniya on May, 2015 and out of 751, 279 duly completed questionnaires were received making a 37.1% response rate. The results revealed that most of the respondents learnt about the IR as a result of a web search engine (26%), information provided at faculty or any other meeting held in the university (24%) and by working in a field with established subject based archives (23%). Only 44% of the respondents were aware of the university IR and 49% mentioned that they are not aware of it. With regard to the frequency of IR use, only 14% use IR very frequently while 25% somewhat frequently, and surprisingly 17% rarely used and majority of the respondents (31%) has not used IR at all. The interesting finding is that 56% of the respondents reported their willingness to contribute to the university IR while 18% of them were not willing to contribute in future. Those who willing to contribute to IR mentioned they contributed because they support the principle of open access (39%) and it enhances visibility and recognition of the author’s work within the institution (35%) and beyond that. With regard to the depositing materials to the IR, 49% of the scholars prefer to publish conference papers rather than research reports and post print articles. The major barrier to contribute to IR is fear of plagiarism (32%). In light of these results, there is a need to create more awareness and to educate the faculty on the importance of the IR as it enhances visibility and recognition of the author’s work. At the same time the university should conduct an open access advocacy campaign and training sessions for researchers to demonstrate access and publish in open access repositories.

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