Developing Strategic Plan for Supporting Internationalization of Technical and Vocational Education and Training

In global competition era, universities are demanded to improve their quality and reputation through internationally-standardized improvement of education and research called internationalization. The attempts to actualize university internationalization has not been widely responded by vocational education in Indonesia, such as by Solo Textile Academy, whereas its graduates should compete with overseas graduates from China, India, and South Korea, etc. This article discusses the development of strategic plan for supporting the internationalization of technical and vocational education and training. The research was conducted in Solo Textile Academy. The data were collected through documentation, focus group discussion and in-depth interview. The analysis technique employed is Miles and Huberman’s qualitative analysis. The result reveals that Solo Textile Academy was still not prepared for developing internationalization. The main problem is the limited number of lecturers with doctoral degree, poor English proficiency and insufficient fund. Moreover, its business-plan documents have not explicitly stated about internationalization. Accordingly, strategic plan for supporting the internationalization of technical and vocational education and training is required. The first step taken is the making of planning and developing team for the making of self-evaluation and SWOT analysis as the foundation to determine prominent and priority programs for supporting the internationalization. Keywords—internationalization; strategic plan; technical and vocational education and training