Demand for Competence-based Education for Worker of Public Health Care Service in Ulsan Metropolitan City

Introduction: In order to strengthen the core competencies of workers, systematic education tailored to their needs is necessary. In this study, a survey was conducted on workers in public health care service in Ulsan Metropolitan City (Ulsan) to investigate the demand for education according to core competencies.Methods: A total of 70 workers who work for public health care service in Ulsan participated in this online survey. The questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic factors, work ability, education demand, and preference of education form.Results: The core competency with a high level of work ability is ‘Expertise on health and disease’ (41, 58.6%). On the other hand, the core competency with a low level of work ability was found to be the ‘Evaluation-related theories of public health care service’ (57, 81.4%). The core competencies with the highest demand for education were “Resident-centered service implementation” and “Public health care service strategy development” (64, 91.4%), followed by ‘Public health care service cases review’ and ‘knowledge of public health service plan’ (63, 90.0%). The preferred form of education is offline education (49, 40.8%). The most important factor in education was ‘work utilization’ (Offline: 57, 81.4%; Online: 48, 68.6%), both online and offline.Conclusions: Through the research results, it was possible to find out education demand according to core competencies and preference of education form. Based on these results, we will develop a core competency education program tailored to actual demand. In the future, it is necessary to continuously conduct research on such education demand.

STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: CLASSIFICATION AND APPLICATION CONDITIONS

As a result of transformation of the higher education system, higher education institutions are moving to a market environment. This forces universities to act in terms of efficiency and develop strategies for their development. The choice of an educational organization’s development strategy depends on a number of external and internal factors: state policy in the field of education, demand for educational services, geographical location, size, form of ownership of the university, and others. This article examines existing approaches to classifying the strategies of organizations, analyzes the opportunities, conditions and limitations of their application to higher education organizations.

Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education: A Review of Demand-Driven Agricultural Extension Education in Nigeria

The paper examined demand-driven agricultural extension education in Nigeria and emphasized the need for extension professionals to acquire soft skills in addition to their technical capabilities through the utilization of demand-driven extension education (DDEE) strategies. A review of demand-driven agricultural extension education in Nigeria as introduced by Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education in universities was carried out to assess the concepts of demand-driven extension education, capacity development, skill, skill- mismatch. The reviews were analysed using themes and the findings were reported based on the themes identified from the review analysis. Job matching and human capital theories are the theoretical underpinning for this paper. The paper further highlighted the numerous benefits of DDEE prominent among which include its ability to adapt to the need of the learners and employers, utilize dynamic work-based pedagogy to improve competencies, and respond to the needs of the labour markets to ensure continuous alignment between desired qualification and available training. It is important to properly mainstream the use of demand-driven extension education strategies in training extension personnel for better and more sustainable extension and services delivery to farmers. Keywords: Agricultural extension, agricultural education, demand-driven extension education, capacity development, skill, skill- mismatch

Responsible preparation of the school for the inclusion of students with disabilities. Challenges, principles and practices of inclusion

From the perspective of modern pedagogy, the appreciation of each person and, consequently, the inclusion with him, should constitute a principality not so much of theory as of teaching practice. Entity-oriented concepts direct attention among others on the issue of implementation of the idea of inclusive education. The theories of inclusive education demand bold pedagogical concretization. Inclusion is not just a slogan idea of education, but a series of activities, ranging from social attitudes towards people with disabilities, through the construction of an individualized teaching process to specialist student support. The article presents the ideas of inclusions in education, in confrontation with the reality of modern school. The overarching goal became to popularize knowledge about the model of education of a student with disabilities in a public school, with the implementation of the idea already at the planning stage, and then responsible specialist assistance and the implementation of an individualized teaching-learning process.

Approaches to Assessing the Demand for Vocational Education

The article discusses the prospects for the development of regional systems of secondary vocational education (on the basis of basic general education) through the prism of assessing the demand for secondary vocational education and covering this level of education in the context of demography and competition from schools Keywords: secondary vocational education, demand for education, educational coverage, private educational organizations, regional education system.

Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times

The notion of a neutral, objective education is an oxymoron. Education and pedagogy do not exist outside of ideology, values and politics. Ethics, when it comes to education, demand an openness to the other, a willingnessto engage a “politics of possibility” through a continual critical engagement with texts, images, events and other registers of meaning as they are transformed into pedagogical practices both within and outside of the classroom. Education is never innocent: It is always implicated in relations of power and specific visions of the present and future. This suggests the need for educators to rethink the cultural and ideological baggage they bring to each educational encounter. It also highlights the necessity of making educators ethically and politically accountable for and self-reflective about the stories they produce, the claims they make upon public memory, and the images of the future they deem legitimate.