Institutional staff perceptions on the impact of accreditation: A study in two Vietnamese vocational training colleges

Managerial Practices ◽

Staff Members ◽

Individual Interviews ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Governments in many countries worldwide have increasingly focused on accreditation as an important strategy to improve the quality of vocational education and training (VET). In Vietnam, accreditation in vocational training is still in its initial stage of development. The first cycle of accreditation at institutional level was conducted in 2008, and accreditation at programme level was piloted for the first time in 2012. The purpose of this mixed method study was to investigate the actual effects of institutional and programme accreditation from the perspectives of staff members in two Vietnamese vocational training colleges. Sixty staff members in these two institutions participated in the study. A questionnaire combining closed-ended and open-ended questions was administered to all participants. To obtain more in-depth responses about the impact of accreditation, individual interviews were conducted with eight participants. The findings suggest that the staff members overall had a positive perception towards the impact of accreditation regardless of the type of accreditation. The three main perceived benefits of accreditation included the increased awareness amongst staff of QA, its role as a catalyst for institutions’ change and enhancement, and the improvements in managerial practices. However, the study found support for the view that accreditation seemed to have been geared towards accountability rather than improvement. Many staff members observed that accreditation did not lead to a significant increase in teaching and learning quality or the institutions’ reputation. The effects of accreditation were also seen to be temporary rather than long-lasting. In conclusion, the study argues that though accreditation in vocational training in Vietnam has gained some preliminary success, there is still a mismatch between policy and reality. A number of important implications at both national and institutional levels for more effective accreditation are identified.

Institutional staff perceptions on the impact of accreditation: A study in two Vietnamese vocational training colleges

10.26686/wgtn.17007676 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Hien Thi Minh Pham

Keyword(s):

Vocational Training ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Managerial Practices ◽

Staff Members ◽

Individual Interviews ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Web 2.0 technologies in education

Lietuvos matematikos rinkinys ◽

10.15388/lmr.2011.me07 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

Author(s):

Anita Juškevičienė

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Educational Process ◽

Synthesis Methods ◽

Technology In Education ◽

Web 2.0 Technologies ◽

Online Technologies ◽

Impact Of Technology ◽

Information technology is a necessity in every activity, so the application of technology in education is expected to improve teaching and learning quality, student motivation and practical and theoretical knowledge aggregation. One of these types of technology are web 2.0 technologies,which are widely used in the world of teaching and learning process. The article analyzes the impact of technology to educational process, gives the varioususes of online technologies for education examples. The paper uses comparative analysis, research and other work synthesis, methods.

THE IMPACT OF ANIMAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES ON THE PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF REPLACEMENT GILTS

Bulletin of NSAU (Novosibirsk State Agrarian University) ◽

10.31677/2072-6724-2019-52-3-105-111 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 105-111

Author(s):

I. G. Rachkov ◽

V. A. Pogodaev ◽

L. V. Kononova ◽

L. M. Smirnova

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Organs ◽

Industrial Technology ◽

Large White ◽

Traditional Technology ◽

Animal Management ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Young Pigs ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Live Body Weight ◽

The paper find out the regularities of physical and physiological development of the replacement young pigs, bred at different housing technologies. The experiment was conducted in OOO “SVK” Krasnogvardeyskiy district (industrial technology) and “SHP Svobodny trud” (traditional technology) of Novoselytsya districts of Stavropol Territory. In order to conduct the experiment on the basis of analogues, the Company selected bipedal pigs (50% large white (CB) + 50% Landrace (L)) aged one month. Each group had 25 pigs. In order to study the development of reproductive organs at the age of 6 and 8 months, a control slaughter of experimental animals was carried out (3 pigs from each group). The live body weight of 6-month-old pigs in OOO “SVK” averaged 110 kg, while in OOO “SHP “Svobodnyy trud” the animals weight was 67-70 kg. At the age of 8 months, the weight of animals in “SHP “Svobodnyy trud” was 103-110 kg, and in OOO “SVK” - 145-150 kg. At the age of 180 days the animal reproductive organs were at the initial stage of development. Only primary follicles of 0.1-0.3 cm in diameter were observed in ovaries weighing 3.1-3.5 g. The bipedal hybrids grown on the intensive technology were inferior to the pigs with the traditional technology of breeding for the development of reproductive organs. They had a lower uterine weight by 9.1%, ovarian weight by 12.9%, and the length of uterine and ovarian horns by 10.9 and 8.6%, respectively. Repair pigs grown according to the traditional technology had ovaries weighing 9.2 g and had fresh yellow bodies. When growing guinea pigs under industrial technology, the rejection of first-pigs amounted to 63.6%, while in the case of animals grown under traditional technology, this indicator was within 26.6%.

Simply Good Teaching: Supporting Transformation and Change Through Education for Sustainability

Australian Journal of Environmental Education ◽

10.1017/aee.2015.52 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 124-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gitanjali Bedi ◽

Susan Germein

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Teaching Practice ◽

Development Program ◽

Higher Order Thinking ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Education For Sustainability ◽

Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽

Personal Transformations ◽

AbstractThis article proposes that Education for Sustainability (EfS), with its focus on transformative and learner-centred approaches, and higher order thinking skills, enriches teaching and learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET), with implications for quality pedagogy more generally. EfS pedagogy has the potential to inform a new discourse on VET's role in citizenship and responsibility for the future, characterised by some as a shift from productivism to ecologism, and described by UNESCO/ILO as critical thinking towards sustainable development. After reviewing the literature on quality pedagogy in VET, as well as on EfS itself, this article evaluates the impact and effectiveness of a nationwide professional development program to upskill VET practitioners in EfS pedagogy. Early findings indicate personal transformations for participants both as individuals and VET professionals, with high levels of teaching practice enhancement generally through uptake of EfS principles and practice. Based on our findings, we draw conclusions and make recommendations for further research.

Craftsmen Perception of the Dual Apprenticeship in Benin

International Journal of Social Science Research ◽

10.5296/ijssr.v9i1.17905 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 77

Author(s):

Bankole Adéyèmi Rubain ◽

Guy Sourou Nouatin

Keyword(s):

Vocational Training ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Practical Knowledge ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Professional Associations ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Training System ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Staff Members

This paper analyzes the craftsmen perception of dual apprenticeship in Benin. The introduction of dual apprenticeship in technical vocational education and training system has established new structural arrangements in the apprenticeship system. The apprentices must leave the workshop for one day of theoretical instructions and practical knowledge. By assessing how this alternative system of apprenticeship is perceived, this research adopted a qualitative method. It was conducted in Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi and Parakou with the collaboration of the master craftsmen including staff members of professional associations, apprentices, trainers and heads of the vocational training centers. Purposive sampling and snowball sampling technique were applied to select them. In total, 66 participants have been interviewed. Data collection was carried out through life-history and individual semi-structured interview. First, six adopters’ categories were identified. The innovators are those who participated in the curriculum development. The early adopters include staff members of professional associations. Early majority and late majority adopters take into account craftsmen members of the professional associations, especially leaders from associations. Laggards are those who remain connected to the traditional apprenticeship. Besides, another category was identified, business users to describe the training centers that recruit their apprentices. Apprentices who participate in the program are motivated by curiosity and by explicit knowledge from vocational training centers. Master craftsmen are satisfied with the program because of its formal certificate.

Attitudes towards Vocational Education and Training in the Context of United Arab Emirates: A Proposed Framework

International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.5539/ijbm.v11n1p31 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 31 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Saif Khamis Ahmed Alnaqbi

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Vocational Education ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Social Perception ◽

Vocational Training ◽

Cognitive Theory ◽

Technical Education ◽

Developed Countries ◽

The main goal of this study is to investigate the effect of parents and students’ attitude towards the intention to enter the vocational education in the UAE through examining the impact of different factors of attitude such as individual, organization, social, and demographic. Due to the inconsistent results, a new research has established for further investigation through introducing new variables that may better explain the nature of that relationships. In the literature, many theories have suggested that link between variables such as The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). The scope of the study is limited to the students who involved and non-involved in vocational education and along with their parents in the UAE. The importance of this study has many sides in both theoretical and managerial contribution. Theoretically, however, the variables of this study before studied separately in different counties especially in developed countries, but not studied in developing countries such as the UAE. In addition, this study will investigate the integrated variables in one of the developing countries, which fill the gaps in the existing body of knowledge. Therefore, the effects of attitude of students and parents on students’ intention to VET program will be study. The target of sample will be the students in grade 12 from the vocational and technical schools and institutions in the UAE and also another students who are not in the VET program which were from grade eight, the grade which before the grade that accept student to enter VET program. After all the relevant interviews are complete, the answers for all of the questions will then be analyzed. The process of analyzing will has three major stages. Firstly, to obtain the correct knowledge and realize the profound meanings from the answers given, the investigators have to re-read the answers a few times. Second stage will be categorizing the answers into different groups. In the third stage, analyzing the answers according to these groups and defines them in a qualitative manner; this is to ascertain the main themes and applied meanings behind the answers given. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 18.0 software (SPSS) was used in order to test the quantitative questions of this research. The data will analyze in four ways: Descriptive statistics, independent, samples (t) test, one-Way ANOVA test and scheffe’ test. In case of finding the results, the parents’ questionnaire will distribute the three domains: Vocational education importance, Vocational education future and Social perception of vocational education. Whereas the students’ questionnaire will distribute the four domains: vocational education attitudes, social perception of vocational education, vocational education future and vocational education importance. Furthermore, this study will help UAE government to plan, implement, enhance the vocation education within students to motivate them and develops their skills to find jobs for sustainable future. The increasing amount of technical education and vocational training resembles to a lowering capacity by business owners in the private industries, reflecting the negative effects of the basic operating sector of the production of technical education and vocational training. The significance of the study is prevail in being one of the first studies dealing with the connection between the schools of technical education and vocational training schools and the private sector (as a business) market.

Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

Professional Knowledge Workers

10.4018/978-1-4666-6202-5.ch003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 26-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea Simpson ◽

Tanya Fitzgerald

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Business Models ◽

The United States ◽

Professional Staff ◽

Managerial Practices ◽

Staff Members ◽

Changing Roles ◽

And Gender ◽

The University

The pressures of fiscal constraints, increased competition, and rapidly developing information technology have resulted in the modern university adopting business models of operation. As a consequence, teaching and learning have become products and students have become consumers. The net effect of these changes has been the expansion of specialist administrative and management work in universities: work that is undertaken by both professional staff and manager-academics. Arguably, it is these managerial practices that now drive the research and knowledge functions of the university, rather than the other way around. Typically, professional staff members, also known as “general,” “non-academic,” or “administrative” staff, now comprise the majority of the modern university workforce across Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The changing roles and importance of these professional staff members is explored by describing their number, function, roles, and gender breakdown across higher education providers. In this chapter, the authors examine the growing influence of professional staff in the university's binary organizational structure of the “non-academic” versus the academic. The tensions this binary system creates in the perceptions of the relative status of one type of work and workers in higher education over another are interrogated with particular regard to staff diversity. The blurring of the binary is highlighted as academics move into managerial roles and the work of professional staff cuts across academic and administrative domains.

Lecturers’ Leadership Practices and Their Impact On Students’ Experiences of Participation with Implications for Marketing Higher Education Services

Higher Education for the Future ◽

10.1177/2347631117738640 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 40-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hope Adanne Andy-Wali ◽

Andy Fred Wali

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Leadership Practices ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Theoretical Contribution ◽

Transformational Teaching ◽

Group Interviews ◽

Qualitative Phenomenological ◽

This study investigates the impact of lecturers’ leadership practices on students’ experiences of participation within a case university in the UK’s HE sector. The qualitative phenomenological research strategy, specifically the focus group interview approach, was used for data collection. Two key focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 15 participants. The thematic template and content analysis techniques were used for data analysis with NVivo 11. Findings showed that lecturers in the case university were transformational in their approaches to teaching and learning. Second, findings revealed that four highly coded themes characterized participants’ positive experiences of academic participation and they include: Teaching and learning quality; Academic versatility; Supportive academic leadership and Lecturers’ accessibility. This study makes theoretical contribution as it validates the relevance of transformational leadership theory. This study is original because it is the first to propound the ‘transformational teaching and learning framework’ which comprises four themes.

Directed Figurative Imagery: Regarding the Question of the Therapeutic Infl uence of Baroque Music

ICONI ◽

10.33779/2658-4824.2021.1.052-060 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 52-60

Author(s):

Tatiana Sh. Gershbeyn ◽

Keyword(s):

Instrumental Music ◽

Emotional State ◽

Individual Characteristic ◽

Human Beings ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Baroque Music ◽

Baroque Era ◽

Characteristic Features ◽

During the course of many centuries the problem of the impact of music on human beings has aroused interest in philosophers and thinkers, generating numerous theories and conceptions. A serious stage of development of musical therapy occurred in the Baroque era. During that period for the fi rst time scholars made the attempt to provide a systematization of the means of musical expressivity according to the principle of their perception, while the musical compositions created during that period are also broadly used in present-day musical therapy. Baroque instrumental music taken as a principle for the method of the directed fi gurative perception is seminal for working with elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease. Figurative perception and directed apprehension of music are traditionally considered to be the initial stage of a group psychotherapeutic process and is used for preparation of the participants for a session of psychodrama. On the basis of existing systems (those of Helen Bonny and Joseph Moreno) the author of the article developed an independent methodology, the aim of which is to establish and expand verbal communication with patients at an intermediate (moderate) stage of the Alzheimer disease. In addition to the main goals the achievement of which is pursued by activities in directed fi gurative perception, the music chosen in consideration of the patient’s individual characteristic features arouses a therapeutic impact on him, being conducive to the rehabilitation of personal memories and the optimization of the human being’s psycho-emotional state.

Exploring the Teaching and Learning Indicators towards Education 4.0 in MTUN, Malaysia

International Journal of Information and Education Technology ◽

10.18178/ijiet.2022.12.2.1602 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 179-184

Author(s):

Nor Aishah Mat Jam ◽

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Saifullizam Puteh

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

New Technologies ◽

Engineering Technology ◽

Industrial Sectors ◽

The Subject ◽

Data Collections ◽

The Impact ◽

And Training

MTUN has been given responsibility for producing skilled TVET workforces in the industrial sectors. Therefore, the education structure in MTUN is gradually making a transition to Education 4.0 to integrate the existing education structure with the discovery of the 4th Industrial Revolution new technologies. The impact of this shift demands changes in the implementation of teaching towards Education 4.0. Teaching towards Education 4.0 is a phenomenon in moving the change of MTUN to a higher level. However, there is an issue of a mismatch of skills between the industry's needs and graduates' quality to face the 4th Industrial Revolution in Malaysia. Therefore, this study explores how to implement Education 4.0 to produce quality and technologically skilled graduates required by the industry. Thus, this study aims to determine the indicators and elements of teaching towards Education 4.0 for Engineering Technology in MTUN. The study involved seven experts in instructional design technology and in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The interview data collections were analysed using thematic analysis to explain the subject matter of this study. Eight elements were identified to implement teaching towards Education 4.0. These include Industry 4.0 elements, courses design, projects, practical, simulation, educator readiness, up-skilling and re-skilling training, and industrial experience. These elements may be viewed in two mains constructs which are essential to implement in the Engineering Technology programme in MTUN. There are curriculum and educator professional development. Further studies, which take these variables into account will need to be undertaken.