Human Resources Quality as a Main Elements of Excellent and Competitive Education Management

Abstract

Excellent and competitiveness of education management is not a mere slogan of formality, every school must use the essence of “quality and competitive education” in each of its visions even with different editors. The process of education, in addition to directed to the formation of spirit, motivation, creativity, resilience, and confidence, is also emphasized on the formation of awareness, discipline, responsibility, and a good learning culture. The vision of national education based on Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 Year 2003 on the National Education System is “to realize the educational system as a strong and authoritative social institution to empower all Indonesian citizens to develop into qualified human beings so as to be able and proactive to answer the ever changing challenges of the age”. Then the mandate of the Law of National Education System in its implementation is described in Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 19 Year 2005 which stipulates that the scope of the National Education Standards includes content standards, process standards, graduate competency standards, educator standards and education personnel, equipment and infrastructure standards, management standards, financing standards, and educational assessment standards. In addition, the National Education Standards are also intended as a tool to encourage the realization of transparency and public accountability in the implementation of the national education system. This suggests that the main element of education management is the quality of human resources, because without the support of the quality of human resources, then it will certainly be in vain. Thus, each school is encouraged to improve its educational performance so that the pattern of quality education and competitiveness can be realized.

Keywords: human resources, quality, education management, excellent and competitive.