What are the indicators which initiate a project to create a new course?
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Position the stickers in the corresponding sections (important - worth consideration - irrelevant) :
Results of national surveys on the human capital Political pressure Maintained balance between teachers Parent and/or student demands Shifts in emphasis in sectoral policy Work placement offers Trends in research Shifts in type and number of jobs on offer No more elements to match | Important Drop here Worth consideration Drop here Irrelevant Drop here |
"What are the indicators which initiate a project to create a new course?"
Important
Shifts in type and number of jobs on offer: This is basic information which is easy to retrieve, you can follow changes as they happen, the numbers of jobs and the skills required. It is interesting to note that even for usual job profiles the employers insist on skills that are not commonly available; this means that the education system has not succeeded in developing these skills in the students.
Results of national surveys on the human capital: If you can find this kind of survey you will find precious information on the current situation and the foreseeable potential.
Worth Consideration
Trends in research: Strong and slight tendencies can be interpreted to establish an overview of the way research is heading. This is particularly interesting when the training course project is being designed for professionals from the research sector.
Work placement offers: on a different level, the placement offers can indicate trends in future career profiles in the same way as the data on job offers
Shifts in emphasis in sectoral policy: lead to the definition of goals for mid-term training course projects. This, however, is not sufficient to trigger the training course engineering process.
Irrelevant
Parent and/or student demands: it goes without saying that this can only be used as an indication which, on its own, is not enough to base a new course on, unless the parents are professionals in the sector. It can only be seen as a social demand. The need for a course which prepares students to work in the public building and works sector, which is not often ‘attractive', would not figure in the parents and students demands, for example, even if there is a high number of jobs on offer.
Maintained balance between teachers: The main goal is not to keep teachers employed; the goal is to design courses for students, the future job-hunters.
Political pressure.
