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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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