تحليل ملاءة مخرجات نظام التعليم المتوسط مع احتياجات سوق العمل في الأردن : حالة دراسية : إقليم الجنوب

Abstract EN

The study aims at analyzing the adequacy of the Intermediate education system outputs with the labor market needs in the Southern region of Jordan, identify the disciplines of educational programs, distribution of the students enrolled in these disciplines, and distribution of employed and unemployed of the diploma graduates.

The study used Chi-Square Tests to test the study hypotheses through applying the steps of testing the differences between the relative distributions of employed with proportional distribution of students enrolled, and the relative distribution of employed workers and the relative distribution of the unemployed of diploma graduates according to disciplines and governorate in the Southern of Jordan.

The most important results showed that the ratio of enrolled students in the intermediate colleges was 39.7% male and 60.3% female, the highest ratio of females found in Karak governorate 23.2%, and the highest ratio of males in the governorate of Aqaba at about 18.8%.

The study also showed that 50.6% of the total enrolled students were at the educational program of commerce, followed by 21.2% at educational program, health program 15.6%, services and tourism programs 5.5%, Industrial program 3.6%, agricultural program 1.1%, and science and computer program 2.3%.

The results also indicated a presence of a relatively large adequacy gap between the outputs of the intermediate education system and the needs of the local labor market in the Southern region of Jordan.

The study recommended the necessity link between the graduates from intermediate education colleges of diploma with the needs of the local labor market through involving representatives from the public and private sectors to form Program Advisory Committees to develop specialized educational programs under the supervision of Al Balqa Applied University.