The trend of global education has been reshaping to the need of the world of labor. Many a country has refined their educational policies to suit and address the need of the country as per process of globalization in education. In Sri Lanka, as a part of these changes, technological stream was introduced as an additional stream in the advanced level classes. The objectives of the study are to find out the available of human and physical resources, to identify obstacles in implementing technological stream and to suggest measures to overcome the obstacles. A sample of 09 schools was selected by using stratified random sampling technique for this study. The data were collected mainly from the principals, the teachers teaching at Advanced Level classes, and the Advanced Level class students by using School Questionnaire, Teacher Questionnaire and Student Questionnaire. The findings of the study have revealed that there is a shortage of human resources for teaching the subjects in technology streams. Most of the teachers are graduates holding postgraduate diploma in education and there are many obstacles in implementing the technological streams in these schools.

Keywords: Educational policies; Labor.