Leadership in Technical and Vocational Education: Towards Excellence Human Capital

Abstract

Leadership in TVET education is important to develop human capital’s ability to react as a leader. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is an educational approach that is oriented by training process and emphasis on what to be done in the workplace to meet the industries requirements and also to enhance individual development. However, in this challenging world, the combination of job-oriented skills and knowledge is not sufficient in order to develop the whole of individual’s potential. Therefore, to build an excellence human capital, the application should be started in early stage of education. Leadership is described as the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness in decision making process and setting the goal for the organization. Without proper leadership in TVET, the goals which to prepare excellence human capital to be self-reliance will not be possible.

Keywords: Leadership, TVET, human capital