Abstract
Vocational and technical colleges and schools is a type of education which place students on apprenticeship system. It is through which students can spend certain time in industry premises to gain the necessary skills and attitudes mostly required by industries. Vocational and technical education is completely different from a formal education that is taught in classrooms. Developing countries (e.g., Kuwait, Oman, Qatar), has realized the importance of vocational and technical education in vital sectors of the economy (e.g., oil, electricity and water, construction), where expatriates are the dominate workforce and the need to reduce dependence on expatriates is one of high governments manpower strategy. In Kuwait, the government has absorbed the need to reduce dependence on expatriates and thus established the College of Technological Studies, CTS, to respond to the urgent need of skilled and semi-skilled indigenous workforce. Thus, the management of the College of Technological Studies has to apricate and value the significant role of the College of Technological Studies in meeting government workforce objectives. This can be accomplished by ensuring that academic staff has the necessary skills to prepare students to meet industrial needs and ambitious. The academic staff promotion system must be one of the CTS management priorities. The constant review and update the academic staff promotion system is crucial to maintain high standard of vocational and technical graduates. A model is introduced in this research for academic staff promotion system that enable the CTS management to review and assess the quality of the CTS academic staff competencies and their ability in meeting industrial requirements. The new model for academic staff promotion system would overcome and/or reduce the deficiencies of the current academic staff promotion system. The new model would encompass more realistic and efficient criteria’s for assessing the performance of vocational and technical academic staff and introduce a proper work methodology and procedure for minimizing the percentage of errors while promoting a candidate to a higher academic status.
Highlights
Technical and vocational education is a unique type of education that play a vital role in enhancing human capabilities by creating and promoting skilled and semi-skilled manpower that able to manage, maintain, and adapt the technology used in industries
It is an opportunity to open a gate to labour market and tackling unemployment, among youth
The labor force of youth has significantly increased despite the global increase of youth population from 1 billion to 1.3 billion. (International Labour Organization, 2020) Many countries, developing countries, have strengthening technical and vocational education to respond to the urgent demand of skilled manpower in labour market
Summary
Technical and vocational education is a unique type of education that play a vital role in enhancing human capabilities by creating and promoting skilled and semi-skilled manpower that able to manage, maintain, and adapt the technology used in industries. (International Labour Organization, 2020) Many countries, developing countries, have strengthening technical and vocational education to respond to the urgent demand of skilled manpower in labour market Their aim is to create a strong linkage between youth competencies and related industries. The management skills in technical and vocational education institutions would concentrate on creating a mutual interest with industries and business in order to succeed in preparing students for the world of work. In addition to, reviewing and evaluating the current academic staff promotion system This would contribute positively in providing related industry with indigenous skilled and semi- skilled manpower able to manage, maintain and adapt the imported technology, reducing dependence on expatriates
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