Bölgesel Kalkınmada Etkin Rol Oynaması Beklenen Meslek Yüksekokulu Mezunlarının Problemleri ve Çözüm Önerileri: Kırklareli Örneği

Abstract

The qualified technical staff requirement is one of the most important necessities of the Thracian religion’s industrial companies. The contribution of a technical staff on development and usage of the company’s technologic infrastructure is very great. Upon analyzing the technological development of industrial enterprises in Kırklareli, it is observed that small enterprises are technologically inadequate and large and growing industrial enterprises appear to be dependent on foreign technological terms. To provide the technological development the contribution of the technicians is highly considerable. There are problems on employment of technicians in industrial companies. This poor employment is a result of technicians’ discredit for employers in years. There are many reasons of this discredit. First, the expectations of employers and technicians are incompatible, and there are problems caused by both employers and technicians. The most important technician caused problem is poor cost-benefit ratio of employed technician in company. Also employers’ being aware of the contribution of qualified technicians to efficiency and quality, and the importance of industry-academia cooperation for developing and enlarging their work increases the gap between technicians and employers. Another reason decreasing the employment is the absence of the interfaces like industry-academia platforms that pieces together the qualified technicians and the employers, so if necessary the employers are unable to find qualified technicians in a short time. Because of the insufficiency of application infrastructure for industry in vocational schools, number of the conscious, believing the importance of his business and raised himself qualified technicians are insufficient. The last reason of the employers’ mistrust to technicians is that technicians cannot create added value for industry. Whereas, equipped, trained to use their potential to the upper limit, confident and qualified technicians can create great added value to their company both about their already officials and about using recent technologies. By studying all these cases, insufficiency of trained technicians affects the development of industrial companies, development of the industrial companies affects regional economy and employment, regional development affects country’s development. The goal of this study are taking attention to the employment of newly graduated technicians’ who are one of the regional disadvantageous groups, to the industry-academia cooperation and to the development of innovation culture.