COMPATIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM WITH PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATIONAL FUNDING EFFECTIVENESS

Macro economic development of most countries in the world is highly dependent on the contributions of their private enterprises: small, medium, large sized or conglomerated companies. Research findings in developed count..ries revealed a fact that private enterprises contribute from 70 up to 80 percent of Gross National Products. Consequently, private sectors play important roles in professional employment, as part of the macro economics equilibrium. The knowledge era drives tbe need to establish knowledge enterprises. Professional employment is therefore highly relevant to the availability of their embedded tacit as well as contextual knowledge. lligher education institutions, supposed to be the explicit knowledge providers, with responsibilities to design the most compatible program contents, enabling the explicit knowledge to become a functional knowledge, and later to become a tacit knowledge, while develop contextual knowledge, of their institutions' outputs. This study utilized. part of 877 research data collected in 2002, from 31 Indonesian Businesses enterprises in Java, Bali, and Sulawesi islands in Indonesia. Important indications of needs emerge for higher education to ameliorate its program content, to enable a compatibility of knowledge acquired in higher education, with the positions obtained in the employments. Results of this study are expected to trigger further systematic and in depth research, OIl how higher education can best serve the needs of business enterprises, and providing a better employment rate to the graduates. This will maximize macro economics' advantage, from the society's expenditure in higher education, in preparing their off-springs, be employed as business professionals.

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Professional empoyment,, knowledge enterprise,, contextual 1'J1owledge,, compatibility of knowledge

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http://repository.widyatama.ac.id/handle/123456789/2319

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