The Effects of Globalisation and Technological Improvements on Vocational and Technical Education

The Effects of Globalisation and Technological Improvements on Vocational and Technical Education

AKYÜZ, Birol
ÇETİN AKYÜZ, Gülşen

: At the beginning of the 21 st century, it’s seen that countries find themselves in a competition of information and technology and that they have taken a long distance on the way of becoming communities of knowledge. In line with the added to the importance of the need for education “Globalisation”, “re-construction” and “integration with the world” are among concepts which are used to describe especially post-industry information societies. The fact that information gains importance adds to the responsibilities of the whole educational organisation from the sources where information is produced to the structure, operation, administration and programs of educational institutions. Educational organisations must lead to the modernisation of the society because educational organisations have the chance to have influence on other systems by the way they lead. Main condition of rapidly improvements of developing countries depends on improving education qualifications and training qualified person. In this study, the effects of globalisation and technological improvements on the quality of vocational and technical educations were examined and given some suggestions about the subject.

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2009-06

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