A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority (NAITA) and the Australian Government-funded Skills for Inclusive Growth Program (S4IG) managed by Palladium.
This MoU aligns with the Collaboration Agreement in relation to S4IG Phase 2 signed between the State Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational Education, Research and innovation between the Government of Sri Lanka and Australian High Commission in March 2022.
The parties agree to cooperate and work towards improving the tourism and hospitality enterprises through quality skills development. Initial priorities include Foundational Hospitality Skills (FHS), which is a trilingual, work-based training program for new entrants to the industry as well as for up skilling the existing workforce to international hospitality standards.
NAITA has already launched the training online and will work with smaller businesses to ensure they can access quality skills development that improves their business to deliver better services to visitors.
This training is supported by Chef Guild Lanka and provides a training and career pathway for those passionate about food and celebrates unique and authentic Sri Lankan and international cuisine. At the event, special mention was made to Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and up skilling which is essential to recognizing skills and supporting workforce development across the tourism and hospitality sectors.
Through this partnership, NAITA will accredit FHS as an Award of National Vocational Qualification, (NVQ 3), and accredit the Professional Cookery Course as NVQ 4/5. Under the MoU, NAITA will be equipped with industry standard kitchens to provide world class training, an RPL toolkit, train industry trainers to provide certification services, nominate recommend industry assessors to TVEC training and provide mobile training and assessment services throughout Sri Lanka.
A mobile training and assessment service will also be launched to support NAITA to outreach rural and remote communities to access high quality training and access employment opportunities available cross the tourism and hospitality value chain.
These learning modules are intended to be developed with NAITA and converted into the online courses to be uploaded and implemented through the NAITA Learning Management System (LMS).
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