The Linkage between Vocational High School Cooperation with Industries in field of Information Technology in Malang

Developing potential human resources is every nation's dream through quality education for empowering them for global competition. Skills and knowledge are recognized engines of economic growth and social development in any nation. TVET holds the master key for achieving this growth because it is driven by wheels of training skilled and entrepreneurial workforce needed in workplace with changing technologies as it is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge and skills ready for work. The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between vocational high schools (SMK) cooperation with industries in the field of I. T in Malang City. This study was conducted in (4) public vocational high schools selected with simple random sampling method with 32 participants. Mixed method was used in data collection with school management and I. T teachers as subject. The results indicated that cooperation between vocational high schools with industries has great impact on the quality of vocational education as seen in the strong positive relationship of this research variables. The common cooperation type that existed were: Internship placement, job recruitment, on-job training.