연계교육의 성과와 방향 = Achievements and Directions of Articulation System between Vocational High School and Colleges

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In order to provide the practical and high quality vocational education, the articulation of curricula of vocational high schools and those of colleges should be developed. Since the government funding projects began in 1999, its achievements need to be analyzed to provide helpful suggestions to the directions of the projects toward.
Financed by the government, the projects have been generally achieving a positive performence as originally planned, especially highly notable is that the government funds have served as seed money to the strengthened determination on the implementation of the projects for which financial supports are provided by inducing a sort of competition among the colleges and also has provided an opportunity to recognize the general direction toward the evolution of the colleges by invoking to the professors of the colleges a spirit as for the vocational education. It was identified that the inputs, process, outputs of the college education are all on the rise, which is analyzed to have been contributing to the development of the college education.
General principles are observed as followed. The first is to secure stable financial resources, and the second is to comply with the principles governing the distribution of education funds: equilibrium among the colleges, autonomy in financial management, efficiency in budget implementation, responsibility in relation to the financial support from the national treasury, sufficiency of the financial assistance, predictability of the financial support.
Some directions of funding are suggested as following. Professors involved in the projects shall be allowed to use operating expenses. A compensation system shall be established for the professors involved in the government-financed projects. Manpower to provide assistance to the research shall be expanded.