Vocational Education Management Responding to Changes of the Future World

Abstract

World situation has been changing in sciences, advancement on information, economy, society, and politics with tendency of disruptive changes from several factors, for example, economic stagnation caused by COVID-19 pandemic and prediction on overview of technology application in works and skills in the next 5 years. These factors affected educational management requiring human resources with skills and readiness to deal with changes. This article aims to present importance of national education improvement as well as to present guidelines and gather policies and good models of educational management that could respond to changes of the future world. It could be found that educational management models with readiness for generating human resources with skills for responding to changes of the future world were obtained from quality educational management, for example, Human Capital Excellence Center (HCEC) of vocational education that was considered as another important mechanism to drive vocational education by double times. It was also the sample of development of vocational education resources that would be the core mechanism on national development and educational integration management with 3 major guidelines for improving schools including: 1) Quality primary community schools, 2) Quality improvement for small community schools, and 3) Quality improvement for secondary schools in Rongrien Mattayom Dee Si Mum Muang or good secondary schools in the province and vocational classroom project. These were considered as another kind of learning model that could connect academic field with vocational field. It was also considered as another important part to cause systematic and efficient educational integration as well as to develop vocational schools from standard level.

These educational management models gave good effects to development of education industry as well as prepared readiness and generated human capital with competitiveness that was truly equal to those of other countries for catching up with changes of the 21^st century.