2024 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 1-11
Is the social evaluation of vocational schools sufficient? What form of educational quality assurance is required?
The first requirement for gaining social recognition is performance, which is indicated by indicators such as capacity utilization rate, dropout rate, employment rate, qualification pass rate, local employment rate and initial career development of graduates. The second requirement is identity, which must be clearly defined for vocational training programs that are accredited in cooperation with companies. The third is the management of vocational training, which requires the formulation of a medium-term business plan that defines the objectives of training and management, and the existence of a management system that produces results in terms of learning and training. Finally, unlike accreditation evaluation, vocational schools are required to undergo third-party evaluation by an autonomous evaluation organization that the schools establish themselves, and to disclose the results.
The “form of quality assurance required of vocational colleges”, which refers to the above as a whole, specifically means “to produce high performance through the management of vocational education, to strive to further establish an identity, and to widely disclose to society the results of objective and impartial third-party evaluations of these conditions”.
