Vocational education should achieve not only employment ability increase but
also increase of psychological stabilization, social adaptability, vocational ability
preservation. Thus, some say that it is not proper to evaluation the effect of vocational
education with short-term employment and income increase. However, the first objective
of vocational education is on employment, some quantitative criteria such as
employment, income increase, and same industry employment are all meaningful in the
evaluation of vocational education’s success. In this point of view, followings are the
main findings of this study.
First, if the trainee is younger and male, the employment possibility increased.
The tendency is interpreted the circumstances that male are more participating in the
vocational education. Also, it comes from the distribution of female unemployed, which
include stay home wives who are not tend to getting jobs. Second, this study found if
the trainee satisfied with the vocational training program they selected, or they perceive
that the program is closely related with employment possibility, then the employment
possibility increased. The result confirmed that the trainees who participated the
vocational training have enough ability to evaluate which program is needed for them
to get jobs which was the main direction of national vocational training reform to
ITAs. Third, this study also found that as the training hour is longer and the duration
is shorter, the employment possibility increased. Compare to the previous vocational
training before the reform. intensive in a short period of time may helpful for the
trainees participating vocational education.
National vocational training policy working with ITAs is developing in quantity
and quality every year. However, there are very limited efforts to critically evaluate its
effect and improve. Thus, this study implies that not only very superficial quantitative
variables such as employment rate cannot reflect all the effect of vocational education
and not enough to be used for improvement. More integrated criteria that represent
participant’s demographic characteristics and quantitative criteria should be considered in
the future study of national vocational training.