Developing Instruments for Employability Skills Measurement for Trainee Teachers in Technical and Vocational Education Field

The purpose of this research is to identify the key elements of an employability skill which is important and should be mastered by trainee teachers in the field of technical and vocational education as well as to produce instruments measuring their employability skills. These instruments can also be used to identify the extent to which lecturers integrate the skills employability that is important in the student. Modified Delphi Techniques and  Rasch model approach was used to examine the reliability, validity and suitability of individual items. The final instrument  of employability skills measurement among trainees in technical and vocational education field has been verified which encompasses nine key elements of employability skills consists communication skills , critical and creative thinking, information management, teamwork and collaboration, self-management, professional ethics and morals, leadership, entrepreneurship and social skills and representing 81 skills items. Verily, all these elements of employability skills need to be mastered by graduates in order to produce highly qualified and competitive professionals teachers

Employability Skills Needed by Vocational College Graduates: Feedback From the Industry

In the real industrial setting, job duties and skills requirement have changed so much that makes seeking for employment can be a challenging experience. Hence, new graduates need to have the right skills at the right place, and at the right time. This study has been conducted to identify the employability potential of Malaysian Vocational College (KV) graduates based on the current employer perception. In addition, the employability skills among KV graduates as perceived by their potential employers will be identified, so an action can be suggested to KV stakeholders to better prepare their graduates. This study used a descriptive research design with a quantitative approach. The quantitative data for this study were obtained through questionnaires, developed based on the related literature review. The population size of the study is 882 industrial employers, who were involved in On the Job training (OJT) program of the first batch of KV students (from a pilot program). Stratified random sampling techniques were used to select the sample, which came out with a total of 269 sample size. The result of the study shows that communication, thinking and problem-solving skills were perceived as very important by industrial employers, so it has been suggested for the KV management team to develop their students with those attributes before they proceed to the job seeking process

An efficient link aware route selection algorithm for WiMAX mobile multi-hop relay networks

Multi-hop relay technology is designed to provide capacity enhancement and coverage extension for wireless broadband access system such as WiMAX and LTE-Advanced. However, overall system performances worsen as the number of hop increases. For this reason, resource control function specifically route selection problem should be tackled precisely so that better system performance can be achieved. Route selection or routing is a process to identify the best route to deliver information from source to destination by considering the constraints of available radio resource of the route. In this paper, we proposed a new route selection scheme named as Link Aware Route Selection Scheme (LARSS) for WiMAX Mobile Multi-hop Relay Networks aiming at maximizing network throughput and minimizing end-to-end delay. The proposed scheme exploits link quality and hop count as route metric. We conducted simulation study to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. Through the simulation, our proposed scheme outperformed the existing scheme in term of throughput and end-to-end delay

Security issues and modified version of PKM protocol in non-transparent multihop relay in IEEE 802.16j networks

EEE 802.16j mobile Multihop relay (MMR) standard allow for fixed, nomadic and mobile relays. MMR networks is known to have potency of easy installation and opportune management because of its lower infrastructure cost and high data transfer rates compared to existing 3G. Due to lack of physical boundaries and injection of distributed, non-transparent relays, it is also known to be more vulnerable to security problems. In this paper, we first overview the security parameters of the standard, then discussed the security issues of IEEE 802.16j, threats and vulnerabilities on PKM protocols and our modified versions of PKM that support relays infrastructure. The propose version uses decode and forward scheme with distributed and localized authentication. We suggest possible solutions and verify them by using formal (BAN) logic