SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING - THE HIGHER EDUCATION OBJECTIVE

1. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING - THE HIGHER EDUCATION OBJECTIVE Presenter: Lennox Powder Manager, Student and Academic Affairs Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Technology

2. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Preliminary remarks: • Location of theme; • Training component; HEaT • Basis for significance of Education and Training • Education and Training has always been operational; unrivalled in potential

3. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Firstly, consider historical perspective: rationale, evolution, role • Society – an organic entity • Social culture – from simple to complex (knowledge- and skill-based) • The process of transmission in practical terms: thin slices, fields, programs, curricula

4. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Education and training from crude to sophisticated forms; plus informal sources • Facilitation of cumulative learning • In modern times, same with differences

5. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Transmitting with internalizing • Summary of coverage • Additional potential of education and training – not just medium, but initiator and propellant of change; to fashion a preferred way of life

6. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Consider respective facets, in turn • First, acknowledgement of non-utilitarian purposes • But major attraction – productive competencies; Interest of HEaT administrators

7. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Acquisition of competencies to add value; Employabilityemployment productive/self-supporting • Alternative • HEaT must be successful: • Small % transit • Leadership roles

8. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • For productive endeavour – profile of worker (know., skills, attit.; expertise, proficiency; co-op/team skills; trainability, flexibility) • At upper prof. End – creative, inventive, enquiring, enterprising ….. • Create new jobs, new occupations • Culture of research, invention, enterprise

9. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • More to living than earning a living • Transferability of “productive” competencies (give examples: analytic, persuasive, diagnostic …) • Little evidence of transfer; learning for regurgitation • Knowledgeable vs. educated; bridging the gap

10. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • Hidden curriculum “education is what remains …” • The case for making “real” agenda explicit; the focus; generating interest, motivation “Bright” but not educated; challenge of adulthood

11. ACHEA Conference July 2002 ‘The Challenge Of Quality for the Higher Education Administrative Professional.’ • More specialists, Ph.D’s etc.? • Other requirements for “the good life” self-management values, virtues human relations • Why treat under HEaT? • Each must teach