Empirical Study of Management of Vocational High School with Regional Public Services Agency in Indonesia

Abstract

The freedom learning policy is one of the Vocational High School Program (VHS) of the Center of Excellence (CoE), encouraging independent and productive schools to switch from Work Units to Regional Public Services Agency (RPSA). This research aims to reveal the empirical conditions of the management implementation of VHS RPSA, which is by the Management Standards in the Indonesia Education National Standard of VHS. Research methods use mixed sequential explanatory type, initial quantitative stage, and reinforced qualitative data. Research subjects based on a family of expertise include VHS State of 6 Yogyakarta, VHS State of 2 Depok Sleman, VHS State of 1 Bawang Banjarnegara, and VHS State of 63 Jakarta. The results showed that the dimension of human resources management is 80% (high), the dimension of facilities management is 86.88% (high), the dimension of financial management is 51.42% (sufficient), the dimension of learning program management is 85,5% (very high), and the dimension of community empowerment management is 82.25% (high). The combined mean of the five management dimensions of VHS RPSA was 77.5%. Analysis of variance showed that the five dimensions of management were different, with a significance value of 0.001. The implication of this research is to provide a map of the implementation of VHS RPSA in Indonesia that is specific to getting the CoE Program.