...QUALITY CONCEPT IN EDUCATION In recent years, the discussion and debate on the quality of higher education and the mechanism for quality assurance in higher education have growth intensely. With the upgraded formerly known as vocational school to vocational college, quality of the end product should not be compromised. Concern on quality did start from the 13th and 14th century where it more focused on the term of education, the delivery system and the intended audience at that time. The setting for education at that time was for select few or the elite classes as the early European universities were set up to the educated status of the nobility. The criteria for quality assurance at the time were limited to determining the expertise of the teacher and students performance through demonstration of mastery of knowledge. Nowadays the democratization of education has change the delivery of formal education. Highly educated society is seen as essential for growth and development of a country. The impact of new technology also has change the way population gain access to education. In 21st century, quality assurance process is a must especially in higher education institutions to ensure the quality and credibility of the student produced. Woodhouse (1992) defines Quality assurance as a program in an institution where, quality assurance involves attitudes, objects, actions, and procedures, which, through their existence and use, and together with the quality control activities...
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...ENG 1060 – English 16 November 2011 Save Vocational Education Vocational programs at the high school level are an excellent way to provide fresh young minds with skills that cannot be achieved through academic courses alone. It is a solid foundation for young adults entering the work force in today’s economy. “A technical education is crucial in this day and age, equally so to some students as academic offerings are to others”(Tech Ed n. pag)., allowing them to pursue a career after high school whether they decide to further their education or not as stated by one news journalist; “…not every student wants to, or even should go to college. A sound technical track on the high school level can give students the skills to make a good living while providing an attractive pool of workers to draw new business.” (Tech Ed n. pag). Vocational programs must remain in place in America’s high schools and not be closed due to budget cuts or lack of interest as they are necessary to provide students with occupational and life skills. Vocational learning has often been depicted as a way of avoiding the monotony of traditional academics. This is not the case; by incorporating the programs directly with the high school, technical classes are taken in conjunction with core academics. Courses such as technical education, business and accounting, and many other classes are great ways for students to begin learning what it will be like to work in a professional environment when they...
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...Resources,” n.d.). Transition should take into consideration such aspects as postsecondary education or vocational training, employment, independent living, and community participation. Transition may be considered a multidimensional process that includes beginning working life, social and community participation, establishing satisfactory adult relationships, and beginning emancipation from the family (Cobb & Alwell, 2009) (Pallisera, Vilà, & Fullana, 2014). IDEA’s definition of transition services appears at §300.43. Under IDEA transition services means, a coordinated set...
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...While this is still true, the rules have changed and the stakes are higher. Governments have decreased aid for public education and set spending caps. Students today are being faced with “high stakes” testing. We used to worry about scoring high enough on examinations to get into college, but now students take examinations to get out of high school. Some policy makers, during sometime, have suggested a school’s funding will be determined by how well their students perform on the tests. In theory it is wonderful, the schools that do well will be rewarded for their excellence. In practice it will most likely become another opportunity for the rich school districts to succeed and the poor school districts to fail. Revenue caps and high stakes testing appear to be an inevitable part of our future so we must find affordable, effective means for inspiring students and their families to improve student outcome. One way may be parental involvement. Another way might be to teach effective parenting skills which could in turn increase parental involvement in education particularly home economics. Numerous studies have been done to confirm the assumption that students do better when their parents are involved in their education especially in their course of study (Bronfenbrenner, Karnes & Lee, Florin & Doke are cited by the State of Iowa Department of Education, 1998 p. 1). “Henderson and Berla’s study (as cited in Bowen,1999 p. 1), stated, “According...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction: With the development and transformation of Central Luzon College of Science and Technology (CELTECH COLLEGE) simultaneously the increasing number of students enrolling from different courses specially to Maritime Education that make the school became popular at the same time the expectations of students its radical changes in terms of facilities .At the end of the life cycle of an item of technology, the issue arises as to whether it is more economical to use or dispose of obsolete equipment. As improvement on CELTECH COLLEGE accelerates, this issue can arise within a year or two of purchase. In some cases, particularly where the technology will continue to perform satisfactorily to their students notwithstanding that it is obsolete, it may be worth retaining. In other cases, it may be desirable to upgrade technology quickly in order to gain some benefit from reselling the old equipment while it retains some value. The issue of when to upgrade obsolete equipment must be taking action, as it will impact on the likely cost of the school and increasing number of students will going to enroll. On the other hand, if the life of a piece of transformation can be extended so that it can be used over several times, the cost of those changes can be amortized over that time. This will serve to reduce the longer-term cost of implementing Navigational Equipments. This approach necessitates a deliberate decision to reuse equipments...
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...Mike Rose is an author, poet, teacher, and National Academy of Education award winner. One of Roses novels is known as “Lives on the Boundary”. In the novel Rose takes insight on the educational system of Our Lady Mercy a school to which he used to attend. Rose criticizes the flaws and rewards and depicts the value of education as a whole. In “Lives on the Boundary” there is an excerpt known as “I Just Wanna Be Average”. This section specifically addresses Rose’s thoughts and portrays his conclusive argument on the matter. Rose essentially makes a testament to say particular educational systems lack consistency in their ability to produce teachers and curriculums that will support and challenge students, though when said factors are present...
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...Development (HRD) in Australia. HRD can be defined as a set of systematic and planned activities design by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands. The paper also highlights the challenges in the development of the HRD in the country such as the alignment of training and development practice with the business strategy, the unfocused and not strategic training, and lower level of resource allocator in this field. The implication of HRD by the means of globalization also has been stated in this paper. The later section of this paper identifies the strategies that are capable of overcoming the stated challenges. Such strategies are engaging to national vocational education and training (VET) system, and developed specific roles that can help the HRD practitioners to develop HRD field. Involvement of HR professional’s association members will also be crucial. The Australian government also participates to develop strategies by introducing the Training Guarantee Administration Act 1990, principally to raise Australia’s international competiveness. Australian organizations also involve by improving generic skills needed by the workers to perform well in the workplaces of the future. 1.0 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA In recent years, the rise of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Australia, as in most other developed nations, has focused on the attempts to better align training and development...
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...EDUCATION FOR STREET CHILDREN: A CASE STUDY OF CHETONA BIKASH KENDRA Mohiuddin Ahmad Community Development Library (CDL) INTRODUCTION Background and context Community Development Library (CDL) has been working mainly in the fields of development information and communication since its inception in 1980. CDL was established with a mission to deliver development information to activists and organizations that are working in the broad areas of research, human development and right-based works. Among them are catalysts in different fields including academics, planners, development practitioners, cultural activists, political activists, human rights activists, peace activists, environmentalists, feminists, journalists, researchers, teachers, trade unionists and community leaders. The target audience is engaged in activities intending to change the quality of life of the people, particularly the disadvantaged groups of the society. Mission of CDL CDL believes that 'information' is the critical missing link between ignorance and enlightenment, between poverty and prosperity, between dehumanization and empowerment. The vulnerable people and the communities have little or no access to vital information, particularly information on availability of and access to resources. CDL feels that a wellplanned effort encompassing collection, processing and dissemination of information would help in attaining the required level of awareness in the society and, in turn, would accelerate the process...
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...TITLE PAGE Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the career development process and outline an approach of how to progress through it. I will choose a specific Career Theory from the textbook that fits into my personal beliefs of human behavior and career development. I will provide the main points of this theory and use examples from my life to demonstrate how this theory will be beneficial. I will also identify any potential weaknesses or aspects that I may disagree with. What Is a Career? A career can be defined as the "time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person" (Zunker, 2012). This also includes "activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities with an individual's lifetime of work" (Zunker, 2012). A career should be a job that one benefits from not only monetarily but also in some personal way. People should be careful in choosing a career because most people spend over half of their lives working. If one chooses the right career than they can lead a happier life. So many people have what can be considered job instead of a career. A job where one works only to receive money can lead one to be unhappy and cause quite a bit of stress. Overtime this can have an effect on an individual’s overall health. This is why the idea of career development can be so important. What is Career Development? Career development can be defined as...
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...results have shown that training is not significant in the determination of wages, which shows the poor quality of training in the overall economy. Results were obtained by Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. However, schooling and other demographic variables have expected signs and magnitudes. The recommendations of the study based on empirical findings are toward technical education and vocational training institutions; they should ideally have to devise their technical education and vocational training exactly according to the requirements of industry. Empirical results also emphasize to improve the quality of training. Keywords: Wages, Investment in human capital, Training, Cross-section data, Industries, Developing country 1. Introduction Training in general and skills development in particular, not only play a vital role in individual, organizational and overall national economic growth but are integral part of Human Resource Development (HRD). Empirical literature on the subject topic suggests that human capabilities can be improved through better education and training [Haq (2002)]. Education and training are indispensable instruments for improving labour mobility, adaptability and productivity, thus contributing to enhancing firms’ competitiveness...
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...Liberal Arts Education Imagine the CEO of an accounting firm deciding between two people for an important new job position. His choices are between someone who went to a school specifically directed toward a business or accounting major, and someone who went to a liberal arts college directed towards a certain major, as well as general education classes. He will most likely choose the latter, because of the person’s ability to excel in business and accounting, but also to be proficient in other social and non-business related skills. The combination of receiving a good liberal arts education, attending Aquinas College, and then applying both to my life will assist me in creating a successful future with a professional career. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, liberal arts is defined as “college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (as reason and judgement) as opposed to professional or vocational skills” (Merriam-Webster). Students who receive a liberal arts education become knowledgable and skilled in many areas of study, rather than one specific topic. They become prepared to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. A liberal arts education does not necessarily include professional, vocational, or technical curriculum; rather, provides students with a broad knowledge of the world, as well as an in-depth study of one area...
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...Higher education has undoubtedly been plagued by many problems in recent years, and one of the most pressing problems is the drastic termination of liberal arts programs across the country. The problem does not arise solely from the closure of liberal arts colleges, but more commonly from many liberal arts colleges changing their curricula in order to be viewed as less traditionally liberal arts and more vocational. Although liberal arts schools only comprise of a small fraction of higher education institutions, (they only educate at most 2 percent of college students, according to the Huffington Post) they make up an important fraction (in terms of accomplished graduates). This essay will include background information on the liberal arts,...
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...No. ED335042) Bardwell, C. B. (1997). Standing out in the crowd.Black Collegian, 28, 71-79. Bhatia, V. K. (1997). Genre mixing in academic introductions.English for Specific Purposes, 16, 181-195. Bjekic D. (1999): Profesionalnirazvojnastavnika (Teachers’ vocational development), Uzice: Uciteljskifakultet. Brooklyn, (1991), First steps to success. A guide to preparing students for the job market NY: New York City Board of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No.ED337572) Buskirk, D. (1988, December). A comparative study of industrial arts / technology education: Competencies between industrial teacher educators and production plant managers of manufacturing industries. Paper presented at the American Vocational Association Convention, St. Louis, MO. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED303635) Byram, M. (1997).Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence.Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Dauphinais, W. (1997).Forging the path to power.Security Management, 41, 21-23. Hanzevack, E. L. & McKean, R. A. (1991).Teaching effective oral presentations as part of the senior design course.Chemical Engineering Education, 25, 28-32. Harper, S. C. (1987), Business education: A view from the top. Business Forum, 12,24-27. Herring, R. D. (1985), “A cross-cultural review of...
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...speaking, the importance of guidance and counseling cannot be over emphasized, because it is required at home, working places, schools or any place where people live together for mutual benefits. There may be few persons that are more knowledgeable and more experienced to guide and direct others. lack of guidance and counseling in education was a missing treasure until the revolutionary changes in science and technology emerged with variety of jobs in various sector such as agriculture, banking, industries, economic, political just to mention a few. According to Makinde (1987) “the fist concerted effort towards providing career guidance was under taken by a group of catholic sisters at St. Theresa’s College Ibadan. This group stared a pioneering work by monitoring small scale career guidance for the final year student. Just like the American experience in 1908, emphasis was placed on vocational information and placement services. The teacher invited representative from various government departments, industries and other establishment parastatals to give career talks to their students in the aspect of employment opportunities and qualification requirements in their various establishments. The success of St, Theresa’s College gave a great encouragement to other schools in Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ijebu Ode and Lagos to start similar programmes. In order to fasten vocational guidance workshop were organized periodically in the schools with the federal government policy on education for the...
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...high demand not only in the state of Alabama but throughout the U.S especially within the state prisons. The NAAL (1994) reported that 75% of all prison inmates are deficient in various literacy and basic skills on the 12th grade level. In a subsequent report of the survey 10 years later, the NAAL reported only a small significant increase in literacy levels (NAAL, 2007). Adult education program are an integral part of the rehabilitation process in inmate sentencing. Adult education programs provide a prisoner with the means to seek an education and learn skills that he or she may not have learned before being incarcerated. Programs of the importance in many facilities include GED, literacy/ basic skills programs, and vocational training courses. In the state of Alabama, there are a staggering number of men and women in the state facilities that do not have a high school diploma or above basic literacy skills. The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC, 2008) reports that 9,040 inmates were enrolled in adult basic education programs 80% earned their GED; 9,967 were enrolled in vocational education; and...
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