Factors Affecting the Development of Vocational High Schools to Supporting Regional Potentials in Sidoarjo Regency

Abstract

The demands of skilled human resources increase in the era of Asia Economic Community. Therefore, government shall significantly have increased the number of skilled workers until 2019 in order to meet the needs in various sectors, especially education that provides life skill competence according to reginonal potential.

This study aimed to determine factors affecting vocational education development to support regional potential were found by using Delphi method. those factors found were distance (between resident and school), population, number of junior high school students, road network, public transportation, land price, disaster prone, natural resource production, society participation, government commitment (policy-making), human resources of school managers.