UNRAVELLING INGRAINED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS AND STYLES IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL REGIONAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN GHANA

This study examined leadership behaviours and leadership styles of students and tutors of colleges of education in Western and Central Regions of Ghana. Four specific leadership behaviours were discussed. These include: Team work, Discipline and Loyalty, Working relationships and Attitudes to welfare issues. Traditionally known leadership styles such as "Democratic"; "Autocratic" and Laissez faire were discussed in relation to both students and tutors. Percentage views of both students and tutors were taken about the leadership behaviours and leadership styles, then an independent sample T-test of male and female teacher trainees" views about the four thematic leadership behaviours were computed and discussed. The study also revealed that there is a correlation between students" participation in decision-making and their levels. There is also a correlation between Principals" leadership styles and the number of years spent in College. Recommendations made include: Measures should be put in place by College authorities to create democratic, open and transparent administration to ensure that both students and tutors operate without fear of being maligned or discriminated against in the performance of their duties.

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, PROFESSIONAL STATUS AND QUALIFICATION OF DENTAL TECHNICIANS IN BULGARIA

The profession of "dental technician" appeared relatively late. The first dental technicians were trained by dentists and worked for them. Gradually, they separated as master owners of the studios and began to hire and train apprentices and journeymen. This time has long been forgotten. After 1997, a dental technician became a person who acquired the right to practice the profession after three years of college education. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the profession began with private initiative, passed through state and municipal ownership of dental laboratories, in order to return, for the most part, back to private initiative. Our goal is to study and present demographic characteristics, professional status and qualifications of practitioners in the specialty. To achieve this goal, we studied literature sources, regulations and conducted a sociological survey involving 360 dental technicians. The respondents are from 25 regional colleges of the Bulgarian Association of Dental Technicians, from which we received permission to hold it. We found that the class is relatively aging, which is in line with the demographic problems in our country and in the countries of the European Union. The profession is dominated by men, managers of dental laboratories, who for the most part are registered as Independent Medical and Technical Laboratories. A relatively large number of dental technicians periodically attend postgraduate courses to meet the ever-increasing demands of dentists and patients.

Formation of a Polysubject Network Partnership Spo: Pilot Practices and Mechanisms

Emerging from the pandemic, the Russian labor market is actively restoring network polysubject partnership with organizations of secondary vocational education (SPO). The demanded directions of network activity of large regional colleges-educational complexes and network subjects-customers of personnel were determined. The subject of their network partnership is the modules of the network poly-subject educational program and the network communities of SPE graduates. Practice-oriented results of an interdisciplinary scientific study were obtained in the Laboratory of professional Education of the Institute of Educational Development Strategy of the Russian Academy of Education under the state task “Scientific and methodological foundations for creating an industry strategy for the development of education (secondary vocational education) and mechanisms for its implementation”, project no. 073-00086-1901 for the planned period 2020–2021. Introduction. Statement of the problem. In line with the methodology of the international scientific school of academicians of RAO S. Ya. Batyshev – A. M. Novikov, the theoretical foundations of the formation of network professional education/training/upbringing were developed, which is provided by the pragmatism of network connections and relations. The network approach has become an actual theoretical and methodological basis for designing schemes of network polysubject partnership of large vocational colleges and partners-customers of personnel. You must uncover the essential, the distinctive characteristics of the network of vocational education from the traditional level of understanding of secondary professional education, implementing educational standards fgos SPO. The following were determined: a) directions of network activity of large colleges of SPE; b) subjects of network partnership; c) modules of the network program; d) classification of network partnerships of SPE graduates. Purpose of the article. To develop a practice-oriented scheme of polysubject network partnership of SPO with the participation of network subjects – customers of personnel. To determine the current conceptual framework, to gain new knowledge about the specifics of network program modules and mechanisms of formation of network partnerships of SPE graduates. Methodology and methods of research. The network approach, as a regulator of the interface of virtual and physical realities in human life, allows us to design different formats of network partnerships, united by solving the problems of building professional qualifications for each student. Such partnerships become the core of the “competence network”, because qualifications have long been formed and evaluated not in colleges, but in network professional communities. The research methods are theoretical (development and critical analysis of schemes of poly-subject network partnership, clarification of the conceptual apparatus, formalization of classification features in the design of partnerships); empirical (observations and critical analysis of the pilot practice of network partnership of regional colleges). The results of the study, discussion. The article presents an interdisciplinary understanding of the phenomenon of polysubject network partnership of large regional colleges of vocational education and training subjects. The current conceptual framework based on the network approach is defined. A basic scheme of network partnership has been developed. The article presents the specifics of the modules of network educational programs for increasing professional qualifications of students of vocational schools (including citizens with disabilities), on the basis of which network professional communities are formed. Conclusion. Conclusions. Based on the purpose of the study, a large regional college –educational complex should be considered as the core of polysubject network partnerships, which are focused on building professional qualifications for different age groups of students and their implementation in the structure of a multi-layered Russian economy. The subjects of further discussion should be: the development of scientific, methodological and personnel support for the quality of the network educational process and the quality of the result of building professional qualifications by the subjects of network professional partnerships.

MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL MODEL AT SCHOOL IN THE CONVENTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 IN NORTHERN REGIONAL COLLEGES - STATUS AND SOLUTIONS

In recent years, the school culture has suffered from a great impact from the socio-cultural environment following the development trend of market economy and globalization. In the context of the 4.0 industrial revolution, the organizational culture of the institution should be guided to truly promote its positive impact on all members of the school organization - especially the younger generation mature. School culture in vocational colleges in the North to meet the general development especially in the context of industrial revolution 4.0 need to make changes, add, learn experience in time. to meet the requirements and requirements of the development of economic, cultural and educational. Therefore, management of the development of the school culture model to meet the requirements of basic and comprehensive education is always a very important and urgent matter.

Interpretation and Response to the Changing Nature of Higher Education

Higher education is more complex than most in the academy understand. The purpose of this article is to explore administrator perceptions of the external pressures affecting higher education, the strategies they were using to address the pressures, and the internal barriers to dealing with the pressures successfully. Information comes from twenty-one administrators from nine different institutions (most “comprehensive regional colleges and universities”) with whom we talked.