Assessing the Capacity Building Programs of the Involvement of TVET Graduates in Business After Graduation: Comparative Study between Malaysia and Indonesia
Abstract
It has been an overwhelming alert from educational point of view to embark on effort in nurturing business and entrepreneurship talent amongst the students, in the essence of producing more self-employed or business graduates. This scenario has been extensively discussed and implemented by numerous educational institutions at various levels, including TVET institutions. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify the capacity building programs that strengthen and inhibit TVET graduates’ involvement in business as their job after graduation. It focuses on understanding the factors by which TVET graduates obtain, improve and sustain the knowledge and skills to run their business successfully, as well as exploring on the obstacles that demotivate the graduates to get involve in doing business as their earning for life. This is the qualitative study that used structured interview technique to collect data from TVET graduates in Malaysia and Indonesia. Five respondentsfrom Malaysia and five respondents from Indonesia have been interviewed and findings were being recorded digitally. The respondents are TVET graduates who are currently doing their own business. Findings exhibit that inner self-motivation becomes the core strength for them to get involve in doing own business. Other factors such as family and friends support,
own and friends’ experiences, continuous learning from on-going training resources, as well as formal learning from former institutions develop their self-strength and confident to run a business. Apart from that, the informal learning seems to contribute higher impact in building entrepreneurship capacity. The findings provide beneficial insights for both countries, particularly for Polytechnic Medan and Polytechnic Nilai, and related TVET organization and policies.
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