The vocational education governance at service college in the 4.0 industrial revolution era for preparing prime human resources for land transportation

Abstract

This article provides the results of an in-depth investigation on how the vocational education institution, Service College, under the supervision of the Transportation Ministry carries out the graduates' roles optimally and to realize the well-prepared graduates for work. This research describes vocational education to answer the high demands. The researchers applied the qualitative method with descriptive statistical data analysis. The researchers expected to reveal the portrayal of vocational service college educational governance in the Transportation Ministry. This research answers two questions: the actual conditions of current vocational education and strategies to improve the vocational education quality, especially to keep up with the 4.0 industrial revolution development and technological advancement. The researchers found some improvable elements, such as vocational lecturers' competencies, collaboration, and synergy, vocational education revitalization with teaching factories, re-branding by directly getting involved in industries, benchmarking to the better and advanced education institution, curriculum adjustment, procurement of special institution to improve the career levels and lecturer ranks, and output quality based on budget instead of Tri Dharma achievement.