Management Strategies for Expanding the Opportunities of Professional Education with the Partner Networks of Lopburi Polytechnic College

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) study conditions of the internal and external environment administrative Expanding vocational education opportunities by partner networks of Lopburi Polytechnic College, 2) develop management strategies for expanding professional education opportunities by partner networks, and 3) assess management strategies for expanding professional education opportunities by partner networks. The researcher studied factors and guidelines from 16 school administrators and teachers. Moreover, 5 experts were interviewed for the management of professional education opportunities by a partner network including SWOT analysis by 9 experts. The management strategies were trial and evaluated by 34 participants who were the strategic management users and experts. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and content analysis. The results of this study showed that the management strategies for expanding professional education opportunities with the partner networks of Lopburi Polytechnic College consisted of 7 strategies: 1) promote the management of the expansion of professional education opportunities through a network of partners; 2) develop a structure and strategy mechanism for expanding vocational education opportunities through partner networks; 3) build a network of cooperation to expand vocational education opportunities with communities and agencies outside the school; 4) improve learners' ability to communicate and use technology to international standards; 5) develop learners' problem solving and life skills; 6) develop follow-up systems and tracking mechanisms and evaluate the performance by using strategies to expand vocational education opportunities through partner networks; and 7) accelerate the improvement and development of business performance by employing vocational education opportunities expansion strategies through partner networks. The results of the strategy experiment showed that the opinions of school administrators and teachers were at a high level. The students' opinions after using the strategy were significant higher than that before the use of the strategy at 0.05 level with very high satisfaction. The overall evaluation results showed that most strategies had the highest level of congruency, high level of feasibility, and the highest level of usefulness.