This morning Rotarians from the Colombo Regency Club took us to one of their vocational projects at the Dudley Senanayake College, a public school in Colombo. The Rotary club was providing vocational counseling to eighty 10th grade students at the school. Primary grades in Sri Lanka are 1 through 9, secondary 10 through 12. After grade 10 or 11 students can quit school but their career options are more limited than if they complete grade 12. The program provides for a counselor from the Vocational Training Authority to explain career options available to students as they complete each school grade with the primary goal of encouraging students to stay on through the end of year 12. In the picture above the student is completing a personal evaluation form to help him align his personal interests with career opportunities. Regency Rotarians explained that it is a real challenge to find schools to participate in this program. Schools have a tight schedule to complete the required syllabus and often can't make time for training even this valuable. It was quite an accomplishment to get this school's administration to donate four periods of classroom time for today's vocational counseling.
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