호주의 고등교육단계 직업교육훈련의 개혁과 시사점: TAFE 운영을 중심으로

Abstract

본 연구에서는 여러 가지 제도적인 개혁을 통하여 직업교육훈련 분야의 선두에 서 있으며 여러 산업 분야에서 효율적으로 직업교육훈련을 시행하고 있는 호주의 직업교육훈련체제와 운영 현황을 자세히 파악하여 분석함으로써 국내의 직업교육훈련 특히 중등교육 이후의 단계에서 직업교육훈련 개선에 도움이 될만한 정책적 시사점을 도출하고 국내 직업교육훈련체제를 개선하는데 도움이 될 기초 자료를 얻고자 한다.

Vocational education in Korea has been gradually losing its competitiveness, and industry, academic society, expert groups and parents are asking for its reform. As part of survival strategies, vocational high schools convert themselves into general high schools, change their school names, but in vain. Also vocational colleges are having difficulty recruiting students, which threatens their very existence. So it is necessary to prepare an alternative action to avoid the collapse of vocational education. Companies are generally not satisfied with their new employees, whether they are vocational high school graduates or college graduates, so they bear the responsibility and cost of retraining new employees. This results in increase in companies' distrust of vocational education institutes. To overcome such discouraging situations, it is necessary to benchmark successful cases from other countries and apply them to formulate policies on vocational education and training. With this intent, this study focused on Australia, which is renowned for its vocational education and training system, to investigate its ways of effectively and successfully operating the system. Based on the study, implications for improving vocational education and training and basic material useful to reform vocational education and training system in Korea will be drawn. This study reviewed and analyzed the following: outline of the Australian vocational education and training system, TAFE as a vocational education and training institute, factors affecting changes in vocational education and training system, operation of TAFE institutes, employment and follow-up of the graduates, etc. Based on the results of the review and analysis, implications were drawn on reforms for vocational education and training at the post-secondary level in Korea. ...