Master of Science in Clothing Studies

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    Investigation of how best the distance teaching methodologies adopted by OUSL can cater to meet the training needs of the clothing industry in Sri Lanka
    (3/29/2011) Perera, LSA; Ariyadurai, SA
    As apparel exports occupy the number one spot in export earnings for Sri Lanka ,the clothing industry enjoys a dominant position in the Sri Lankan economy. It is also the major employment source in Sri Lanka. With the abolition of quota system in 2005, when all apparel imports and exports will become open market, unless the Sri Lankan manufacturer can give what the buyer requires at a competitive price, acceptable quality and reasonable time. He wont be able to compete with other countries. Thus Sri Lanka will have to gear to race the challenges that are ahead. One of the areas where the industry needs input is the availability of trained and skilled personnel. The concept of distance education that is practised by the OUSL, which is based on non-contiguous communication readily fits into the atmosphere in which the Sri Lankan apparel industry operates. Though the basic concept is ideal for the industry there are many lapses in the programmers, which need to be addressed by the University. Education and training must develop ways to cope with increasing needs of updating and retraining, as well mastering completely new situations and developments. This work investigates how the programmers conducted by the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology of the Open University of SriLanka is in a position to meet these training needs of the future Sri Lankan apparel industry. In this study number of employers and employees of the industry and students of OUSL were interviewed to investigate how best the educational programmers offered by the University could meet the training and development needs of the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Views of the industry people also obtained. Number of suggestions and recommendations are made based on this study.
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    An Analysis of apparel exporters of Sri Lanka
    Mataraarachchi, R; Heenkenda, N
    The global apparel industry is currently undergoing a significant process of transformation. The liberalization of the trade regime governing textiles and apparel with the phase out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). has opened up the market for an\ apparel supplying country who remains competitive in the global apparel trade. This has given freed for apparel retailers, to have a choice among the apparel manufacturers. They can source from any country where they can get the best product, which meet their requirements. Therefore global apparel trade has become much competitive in the market./ Although the results of the above transformation are predicted to an increase in global trade, the impact is likely to differ among countries and regions. For each country this represents both an opportunity and a threat. An opportunity for the countries who remains competitive in the apparel trade since markets will no longer be restricted, and a threat for the countries who are not very competitive in the trade of apparel because other apparel manufacturers will no longer be restrained. To get an opportunity form the liberalized apparel market apparel manufacturers should build comparative advantage over the competitors./ The study focuses on Sri Lankan apparel industry and it reviews the most recent market developments in apparel retailer sourcing strategies with the quota removal. The study builds a framework to assess the capabilities of apparel manufacturers, to be successful in the competitive apparel market. It examines the capability of Sri Lankans apparel manufacturers to fulfill the requirements of the apparel retailers in both country level and organizational level. The study applies Porter's Diamond Model in assessing the competitiveness of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing industry from the data collected under the framework. The study argues that Sri lank which aspires to maintain an export led strategy in textile & clothing need to shift their expertise from basic factors to more value added specialized factors in order to build competitive advantage in the global apparel trade. Also study concludes that Sri Lanka should expand the nation's competitive advantage through internationalization.