Research Methodology for TVET Leaders and Teachers

Date: March 13-17, 20223 /
Program Type: In-Country Program /

Program Contents

To achieve the objectives set forth, the following strategies will be employed in a consultative nature:

Presentations and workshops:

Theme Papers (TP)

  • Special Lecture: An Overview of Research Methodology
  • Theme Paper 1: Introduction to Research
  • Theme Paper 2: How to perform Literature Review
  • Theme Paper 3: Basic Research Methodology in Non -Engineering
  • Theme Paper 4: Basic Research Methodology in Engineering
  • Theme Paper 5: Basic Research Planning using K-Chart Approach
  • Theme Paper 6: Basic Publication Planning using K-Chart Approach
  • Theme Paper 7: Basic Result and Analyzing tools in Scientific Research

Group Work Activities (GWA)

  • GWA 1: Research Planning using K-Chart Approach
  • GWA 2: Performing and Experiencing K-Chart Planning
  • GWA 3: An Overview on Research Methodology Workshop
  • GWA 4: Action Plan-Basic Scientific Research Proposal Framework

Objectives

At the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • To determine and understand the fundamental concept of Research Methodology
  • To understand and apply the methods of Research Methodology
  • Too familiar with the Scientific Process and Beyond in Research Methodology

Effective Workforce Planning in TVET Sector

Date: March 6-10, 20223 /
Program Type: In-Country Program /

Program Contents

To achieve the objectives set forth, the following strategies will be employed in a consultative nature:

Presentations and workshop on the following:

Theme Papers

  • Theme Paper 1: Challenges faced by TVET institutions in the modern employment landscape
  • Theme Paper 2: Addressing the Challenges through Innovative Learning and Assessment Strategies
  • Theme Paper 3: Current Workforce Trend in TVET
  • Theme Paper 4: Criteria and Strategies to meet the Workforce in TVET
  • Theme Paper 5: Sharing of Malaysian Design Planning in TVET Workforce-current practice
  • Theme Paper 6: An Overview Workforce Demand and Implementation in Philippines
  • Theme Paper 7: Workforce Designing Tools at TESDA, Philippines

Group Work Activities (GWA)

  • GWA 1: Preparing Suitable Tools for TVET Workforce Planning
  • GWA 2: Developing Workforce Plan
  • GWA 3: Preparing Action Plan for Effective Workforce Planning in TVET
  • GWA 4: Presentation of the Action Plan
Objectives

At the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Determine the future needs of the workforce in the TVET sector
  • Understand the challenges in planning the action of producing effective workforce in TVET sector
  • Plan the strategies to materialize the needs of TVET workforce, and
  • Develop an action plan to prepare the future demand of the workforce in the TVET sector

21st Century Skills for TVET

Date: February 20-24, 20223 /
Program Type: In-Country Program /

Program Contents


To achieve the objectives set forth, the following strategies will be employed in a consultative nature:

Theme Papers & Presentations on the following:

  • Theme Paper 1: TVET Institutes Management for Global Competitiveness
  • Theme Paper 2: 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0 for Global Competitiveness & Innovation in the TVET
  • Theme Paper 3: Developing a Curriculum Structure Integrating 21st Century Skills
  • Theme Paper 4: TVET Digitization for Global Competitiveness
  • Theme Paper 5: IR 4.0 to TVET 4.0
  • Theme Paper 6: Excellence of Leadership for Change Management through PDCA Cycle in TVET

Workshops & Activities

  • Workshop 1: Understanding and Analyzing TVET Institute Image Building with 21st Century Environment through SWOT analysis.
  • Workshop 2: Creating Competency-Based Training (CBT) by integrating 21st Century Skills.
  • Workshop 3: 21st Century Skills Delivery in Real-Time Classroom.

Seminar on “21st Century Skills for Sustainable TVET”

  • Session 1: TVET with 21st Century Skills & the VUCA World
  • Session 2: Green TVET & The National Economy
  • Session 3: TVET Digital Management in 2030
  • Session 4: Open Forum

Objectives

The participants are expected to:

  • Understand the concept of 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0
  • Discuss the importance of 21st Century Skills for TVET
  • Gain knowledge, experience, and skills on 21st Century Skills in developing and designing the curriculum for TVET students
  • Integrate the 21st Century Skills for TVET into the teaching and learning management of TVET
  • Encourage and develop the 21st Century Skills to be suitable for employability in the future.
  • Be familiar with the vocational pedagogy to deliver 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0
  • Develop curriculum framework incorporating 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0
  • Be familiar with ICT & digital technology to integrate 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0 in TVET

Expected Outcomes

The Participants are expected to gain more knowledge experience of 21st Century Skills for TVET in developing and designing the curriculum for TVET students as the 21st Century skills are tools that can be universally applied to enhance ways of thinking, learning, working and living in the world. The skills include critical thinking/reasoning, creativity/creative thinking, problem solving, metacognition, collaboration, communication and global citizenship.

21st Century Integrated Learning Experience in Higher Learning Institutions

Date: February 15, 2023 /
Program Type: Webinar /

9:30am Afghanistan | 10:00am Maldives, Pakistan | 10:30am India, Sri Lanka | 10:45am Nepal | 11:00am Bangladesh, Bhutan | 11:30am Myanmar | 12:00nn Thailand | 1:00pm Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore | 3:00pm Papua New Guinea | 5:00pm Fiji






Background

Stress among students has been a topic of extensive research for many years. Many studies were able to recognize the different stressors that the higher learning institutions (HLIs) students experience. Ross, Niebling, and Heckert (1999) determined forty sources of stress among students. The top five sources of stress are associated with changes in sleeping habits, lack of vacations or breaks, changes in eating habits, increased workload, and new responsibilities. Schneider (2002) found that HLI students' perceived workload stipulated in the curriculum, competitive peers, and difficulty of the curriculum content cause emotional stress. It is common for HLI students to feel anxious due to the workload of their studies and their ability to meet those demands (Talaei, et. al., 2008). Another work suggests that heavy workload, a lot of time used to complete assignments, lack of sleep, difficult and inflexible curriculum, competitive classmates, and performance pressure (Schneider, 2002; Murphy, et. al., 2009). A few other works show that the common causes of stress in academic performance are associated with examinations and grades, fear of failing, lack of time between tests, and criticism at work (Sekhon, et. al., 2015; Murphy, et. al., 2009; Muirhead & Locker, 2007). In a study conducted in the Philippines, it was found that college students experienced immense pressure and their concerns were about earning good grades, too many projects, homework and incoming exams, time constraints and maintaining good relationships with teachers. (Hicks & Heastie, 2008).

The most frequently reported factors contributing to stress among students in other studies were: academic workload (Burnett & Fanshawe, 1997; Jones, 1992; Verma, et al., 2002) examinations (Lee & Larson, 2000; Verma, et al., 2002), performance in academic work, academic difficulties (Agolla & Ongori, 2009; Johnson, 2009), self-expectations and parents’ expectation (Ang & Huan, 2006a; Ang, et al., 2009; Misra & Castillo, 2004). Researchers in China and Vietnam who have conducted studies using the Educational Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESSA) revealed that academic stress was found to be related to five factors: pressure from the study, workload, worry about grades, self-expectation and despondency (Sun, Dunne, Hou, et al., 2012; Thai, 2010).

It is apparent based on these studies that one of the most important sources of stress for students is in their academic life. In order to prepare for their careers, students in HLI must adapt to a variety of psychological changes in addition to dealing with academic and social requirements. Thus, academicians and authorities need to be wary of this situation and intervene for the well-being of these students. Academicians, especially, could assist by changing the method of teaching and learning in order to reduce the workload of students. One documented approach to lessen the students’ academic workloads is by introducing Integrated Learning Experience (ILE)

The ILE approach helps students get a unified view of reality, and enhances their capability to acquire real-life skills. ILE does this by linking learning content between and among subject areas. There is integration when pupils are able to connect what they are learning in one subject area to a related content in another subject area. John Dewey claimed that learning could be more meaningful if content areas are blended for curriculum and instruction. The use of unifying themes and real-life activities could lead to more relevant learning (Dewey, 1938; New, 1992). The quality of learning outcomes improves as pupils are able to integrate information across disciplines instead of acquiring them in isolation. The intention of the teachers, the learning outcome of the subject, the learning environment prepared to achieve the learning outcomes, and the authenticity of the assessments are crucial in ILE implementation (Thorburn and Collins, 2006). As a conclusion, ILE method would enable students’ workload to be lessened as they carry out tasks in groups, across subjects and finally assessed collectively by related content lecturers.



Objectives

  • To share the challenges of isolated T&L and its impacts on students’ well-being
  • To share the ILE approach in engineering and non-engineering environments
  • To share the framework of critical factors for ILE
  • To share the success stories of ILE in the Malaysian polytechnic system


Leadership for Sustainable TVET and Senior Executive Conference for CPSC Strategic Plan 2023-2028

Date: December 12-16, 2022 /
Program Type: Regional Program /

Main Contemts


Objectives

The participants are expected to:

  • Comprehend the role and significance of a strategic plan in the development of national public interest.
  • Understand the role and significance of the CPSC strategic plan’s elements such as vision, mission, strategic goals, and objectives, and be able to identify formulations of those elements that are in line with National requirements.
  • Provide check-and-balance controls for the vision, mission, strategic goals, and objectives drafted by the NCW and expert participants and ensure that the outputs that they review are linked with their national agenda.
  • Provide validation to the Strategic Plan inputs and made by the delegates of the National Consultation Workshop (NCW) and Experts Meeting (EM).
  • Ratify and recommend the Strategic Plan 2023-2028 to the CPSC Governing Board for implementation.

  • Program/Conference Strategies

    To achieve the objectives set forth, the following strategies will be employed in a consultative nature:

    Presentations on the following:

    • CPSC Performance Overview & Strategic Focus
    • CPSC’s Strategic Plan 2018-2023, Highlights and Status Report, and Issues and Challenges for the Future (Softcopy)
    • Sustainable TVET Strategies on a Global Perspective.
    • Country Paper Presentations on TVET Challenges:
      • Skill Migration & TVET Branding (Philippines )
      • TVET Accreditation and Quality Assurance (Malaysia)
      • Digital and Virtual TVET (India)
    • TVET image Building: Singapore’s Success Story
    • Strategies on Transformation to workplace learning for Future-Ready TVET
    • CPSC Strategic plan 2023-2028 Process + Results of the expert Meeting 2022 in Malaysia

    Exercises and workshops on the following:

    • Potential Programs and Expectations for CPSC in View of the Member Countries input requirements
    • Analysis and Synthesis of the National Consultation Workshop, Expert meeting Results and the Crafting of the Activities

    International Seminar on “Leadership & Strategy for Sustainable TVET”

    The international seminar on “Leadership and Strategy for Sustainable TVET” aims to bring together additional participants in order to share and discuss emerging challenges and best practices as shared by selected TVET experts. For this program, experts from Singapore are invited to share their country’s experience and best practices particularly on “Image Building” and “Strategies on Transformation to Workplace Learning for Future-Ready TVET”, with the aim of replicating and learning from the Singaporean model in implementing strategies for Sustainable TVET.

    The seminar will also convene a panel of experts that will further digest and discuss the inputs of the speakers vs the feedback from various invited stakeholders in the event. The panel will also be helpful in contextualizing these inputs into tangible plans of action that will benefit the stakeholders in adapting a careful strategy through the analysis of best practices from other systems.


TVET Institute Management for Global Competitiveness

Date: November 28-December 2, 2022 /
Program Type: Customized Program /

Main Contemts


The delivery of the program design follows a spiral learning approach, begins with an overview of core concepts to be followed by progressively deeper application of the concepts and finally, a self-directed learning approach through action planning.

The main contents of the program are:

Special Lecture

  • Popularizing TVET: Concepts, Strategies and Mechanisms

Presentations

  • Presentation 1: TVET Institutes Management for the Global Competitiveness
  • Presentation 2: CBT Curriculum Approach in TVET
  • Presentation 3: CBT and Assessment System in TVET
  • Presentation 4: Developing a Curriculum Structure Integrating 21st Century Skills and IR 4.0
  • Presentation 5: Enhancing Employability of Youth for Global Citizenship
  • Presentation 6: Application of ICT and Digital Skills in Institutional Management and Teaching
  • Presentation 7: Developing ICT Tool or Mobile App for Teaching and Learning
  • Presentation 8: National Skills Information System, its Application & Benefits
  • Presentation 9: Digitization in MIS and M&E
  • Presentation 10: Excellence of Leadership for Change Management Through PDCA Cycle in TVET Institution

Expected Outcome

  • Manage TVET institutions effectively and efficiently with 21st century management competencies

Objectives


Generally at the end of the program, the participants are expected to enhance their supervisory competencies and be able to:

  • Supervise implementation of quality standards and procedures
  • Facilitate the promotion of programs and services

Specifically at the end of the program, the participants will be able to:

  • Equip knowledge and skills to adapt appropriate strategies in managing TVET and formulate actionable plans to enhance TVET systems and processes in their institution
  • Promote technical cooperation among TVET institutions on the different programs related to Industry Revolutions 4.0
  • Identify the challenges encountered in each TVET institution in terms of management and leadership as they adapt the IR 4.0

Quality Assurance of TVET Institutions through Accreditation

Date: November 21-25, 2022 /
Program Type: In-Country Program /

Main Contents


The main contents of the in-country program are as follows:

  • Theme papers:
    • Theme Paper 1: Organizational Excellence in Today’s competitive environment through Accreditation.
    • Theme Paper 2: Concept of Quality Assurance and Quality Standard in TVET
    • Theme Paper 3: National Accreditation and Certification systems and practices in India ( NBA / NAAC)
    • Theme Paper 4: Quality Assurance Auditing through APACC
    • Theme Paper 5: Issues and Challenges in Accreditation Process
    • Theme Paper 6: Innovative Approaches for stimulating Accreditation system in Technical Education in India.
  • Group Work Activities (GWA)
    • GWA 1: SWOT Analysis
    • GWA 2: Presentation: Case Study
    • GWA 3: Preparing Quality Assurance through Accreditation Implementation Plan
    • GWA 4: Action Plan

Objectives

At the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Appreciate the need and importance of quality assurance;
  • Identify best practices in TVET Quality Assurance Systems member countries;
  • Comprehend the need and importance of National/Regional/International accreditation;
  • Gain insights on APACC accreditation as a continuous improvement approach to organizational excellence in TVET; and
  • Develop an action plan to prepare for accreditation

Digital and Infrastructure Transformation on Engineering, Design and Pedagogy in TVET: Smart City Transportation with ITS Model

Date: November 14-18, 2022 /
Program Type: Regional Program /

Main Contents

  • Online real-time lectures
  • Workshops with Busan's Experts
  • Country-based Analysis $ Discussion

Objectives

  • To build the capacity required for operating and managing Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in CPSC member countries with the experience and practices of South Korea and Busan
  • To facilitate interaction and discussion about how to utilize ITS in CPSC member countries for pursuing socio-economic progress

TVET Strategic Planning and Experts’ Meeting for the CPSC Strategic Plan 2023-2028

Date: November 6-12, 2022 /
Program Type: Regional Program /

Main Contents

Objectives

The participants are expected to:


  • Comprehend the role and significance of a strategic plan in the development of a TVET institution.
  • Understand the role and significance of the strategic plan’s elements such as vision, mission, strategic goals, and objectives, and be able to formulate a draft of those elements.
  • Provide check-and-balance controls for the vision, mission, strategic goals, and objectives drafted by the NCW participants and ensure that the outputs that they will draft are linked with the previous findings.

Meeting/Workshop Strategies

To achieve the objectives set forth, the following strategies will be employed in a consultative nature:


Presentations on the following:

  • Introduction on the CPSC Strategic Planning Process
  • CPSC’s Strategic Plan 2018-2023, Highlights and Status Report, and Issues and Challenges for the Future
  • Summary of the Strategic Planning Survey Results: Performance, Program Needs Analysis, and TVET Trends
  • Outcomes of CPSC’s National Consultation Workshop (Vision, Mission, Goals)
  • Fundamentals of Strategic Planning in the Context of TVET
  • Best Practices in TVET Strategic Management: the Malaysian Experience
  • Country Paper Presentations on TVET Challenges and Approaches: Emerging Training Needs and Initiatives
  • Emerging Program Thrust Areas for the Next Five Years
  • TVET Strategies on Global Perspective
  • TVET and Digital Skills in the 21st Century

Exercises and workshops on the following:
  • Potential Programs and Expectations for CPSC in View of the Country Presentations
  • Analysis and Synthesis of the National Consultation Workshop Results and the Crafting of the Activities