Making Apprenticeship Program Meaningful to Polytechnic Education

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Apprenticeship program for Polytechnic students plays an important role and is an important event for
polytechnic education in the short and long term missions. In the short mission, it is one strategic of vocational
education delivery which can be used for improving technical competencies as well as others competencies
needed in the workplace. This program can be used to eliminate the gap between education and work. In the
long mission, it can be strengthened collaboration between polytechnic and industries to contribute in applied
technology and economic development through the applied researches. Unfortunately most of polytechnics
didn’t yet delivered this program seriously. So that the result of this program couldn’t be influent significantly
for individual, as well as institution. The result of literature and documents analysis shows that there is an
opportunity to make this program more meaningful than before by using appropriate strategic planning at micro,
macro and mega levels. This paper provide other meaning and understanding of apprenticeship program that can
be used to design strategic planning more effectively. The effectiveness of this program is measured by the
contribution-based of the mission objectives achievement.

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