Education and Job Vacancies

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

The problem of formal education that arises is the desire to achieve a match between the competencies of formal school alumni and industrial needs.

For this reason, educational institutions are expected to teach whatever specialization is needed by the industrial world, not to produce alumni who are capable of generalists.

For example, the idea of ​​making a social media study program emerged, no longer opening a faculty of communication, a computer science faculty, or an information technology study program.

However, after being explored in greater depth, it was found that the number of registered job seekers was 698,988 people, while registered employment was 289,632 people in Indonesia in 2017 (Central Statistics Agency, 2018).

The problem of how difficult it is to find a job is the lack of registered job vacancies. Similarly, the low level of entrepreneurship is able to provide job openings.

So, the base of the problem lies in the side of the lack of labor demand and the lack of supply side of entrepreneurship.

Problems also occur in formal education institutions. For example, the number of Elementary Schools (SD) under the Ministry of Education and Culture has declined, because the number of elementary school students has declined. The next problem is the number of elementary school teachers, Islamic elementary schools, junior high schools, Islamic elementary schools, high schools, vocational schools, and Islamic secondary schools decreased in the period of 2014/2015 academic year until 2016/2017.

The number of teachers declined, precisely when the government imposed the Smart Indonesia Card, BOS funds, and teacher certification benefits. As a result, the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers has increased, which can reduce the intensity and effectiveness of teachers in monitoring progress in the development of student education more thoroughly.

Another problem at the tertiary level under the authority of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education and the Ministry of Religion is the very large number of private universities compared to the state, namely 25.85 times and 12.04 times the 2016/2017 school year.

Even though there is a quota for scholarships from smart pre-prosperous families and cross-subsidies, the very large number of private universities and the existence of BHMN universities, as well as the lack of quota makes the cost of education very expensive for many people.

Only rich children and scholarship students are impressed that they can continue to pursue higher education. High-quality tertiary institutions with affordable education costs are rare. There are, but there are few.

In addition, the ratio of the number of students to the number of educative staff in higher education is far greater than the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers in elementary to high school, as well as Madrasah education. The amount is almost double.

The consequence of this is that the issue of providing jobs that are expected to emerge from an entrepreneurial spirit is not easily realized. Job search alumni products are more easily produced by universities

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