A Retrospective on Educational Policies and Their Implementation in the Vocational Teacher Education Provision / Osvrt na obrazovne politike i njihovu provedbu u obrazovanju strukovnih nastavnika

Abstract

Long-standing gaps of teachers' academic qualifications persist despite changes and developments of educational policies the government has continually been making. The gaps eventually result in a gradual decrease in the quality of vocational school graduates, which has recently caused grave national concern. The decrease is evident in Indonesian vocational students' lack of competitive spirit and skills in the national labor market. In an attempt to find a creative and effective solution to this problem, this paper seeks to explore and describe the educational policies and the implementation of standards by vocational subjects teachers in a developing country and those in a developed county, hoping that it will help vocational school graduates acquire professional qualifications. Using a critical ethnography, in-depth analyses on the professors' commentaries reveal that it is common in most universities in both countries to select vocational teachers by following educational policies in order to establish reliable criteria for qualified teachers in the future. This teacher certification program seems to have positively influenced the welfare of teachers in both countries, but other daring innovations in improving skills and qualifications of teachers are still a great need.

The Relation between College Resources and Learning Outcomes: Considering the Mediating Effects of Student Engagement/Odnos između resursa visokih učilišta i rezultata učenja: razmatranje posredničkog učinka studentske angažiranosti

“…Applied here were: resources as the independent variable, engagement as the mediating variable, and student learning outcomes as the dependent variable. Although many studies have shown a statistically relevant and positive correlation between demographic factors such as residence status (Astin, 1999;Pascarella, Bohr, Nora, Zusman, Inman, & Desler, 1994), gender, and teacher qualification (Adeyemi & Adeyemi, 2014;Nurhadi, Zahro, & Lyau, 2017) on the one hand, and academic achievement on the other, the present study found out that gender, residence status, faculty qualification, and students' area of specialization did not lead to significant differences between the groups, and therefore, these factors were not considered determinant.…”

Bridging the Gap Between Tourism Vocational Education and Employment Practice in Croatia: A Vocational Teachers’ Perspective

“…The latter implies the introduction of licensing scheme for vocational teachers based on lifelong education programs provided by national centers of competencies in tourism. As argued by Nurhadi et al (2017), the policy on the quality of the future vocational teachers needs to be focused on the development of the certification process and on the establishment of competency standards of licensed vocational teachers;…”