An Overview Focusing on the Relationship between Vocational Education and the Necessities of Turkish Business

Abstract

In 21 st century, particularly through the impact of the developments took place in previous decades, it is shown that the competiveness gradually reached a considerably high level and the quality of goods and services presented to the market became the most important criteria of measuring countries economic performances. In addition, it is also acknowledged that the economic development is essentially based on the existence of qualified labour force. That is why developed countries have turned to train a qualified labour force by using qualitative methods rather than quantitative ones. Indeed, the only possible way to create a qualified workforce is training people through qualified educational strategies. Eventually, having an accurate and subtle strategy of training is a prerequisite for being able to struggle to be one of the biggest economies of the world. On the other hand, it is essentially required that the institutions giving vocational education should create educational standards high enough to satisfy the expectations of employers. Until quite recently, the vocational higher education institutions in Turkey unfortunately have been quite inefficient due to inadequacy of training modules and also lack of communication between these educational institutions and the organizations or companies which expected to employ the people studied in these schools. This study aims to examine the problematical communication between vocational higher education institutions and business circles and also tries to review the practices being held to solve this problem.