Tracer Study
CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
This Chapter presents the background of the study, problem and its significance, and the scope and delimitation of the study.
Introduction
It must be acknowledge that University of La Salette has some of the best and finest education institutions in Philippines with well-equipped workshops and laboratories, internship programmes and professionally staffed with a variety of scholarly professionals. These institutions turn out a large number of diplomats, graduates and post graduate students in various disciplines and professions. In addition these institutions reform their curricula and course programmes at regular intervals to be able to keep abreast with the needs of the rapid technological, societal and institutional changes to be able to meet the requirement of the clients. However, once these graduates are push out of the walls of the institution which trained them, they are forgotten. They are not followed through the use of tracer study paradigm to find out about what they are doing with the training they received and what they need to help them improved their knowledge and skills on continuous bases to be able to meet the challenges of the flux of the changes in science and technology. In short, they are forgotten and neglected as well.one wonders about the basis for curricula and course programmes reform in the Philippine higher education institutions to be able to introduce new courses to provide current knowledge and skills for their clients. This paper provides documentary analysis about the need to use the traces study paradigm for the enhancement of the course programmes offered in University of La Salette specifically for Hotel and Restaurant Management Programme to be able to meet the demands of changing educational, socio-economic, industrial and
technological demands of the new century.
TRACER STUDY OF BSHRM GRADUATES FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS (S.Y. 2006 – 2011)
P A G E |1
The importance of being educated
This Chapter presents the background of the study, problem and its significance, and the scope and delimitation of the study.
Introduction
It must be acknowledge that University of La Salette has some of the best and finest education institutions in Philippines with well-equipped workshops and laboratories, internship programmes and professionally staffed with a variety of scholarly professionals. These institutions turn out a large number of diplomats, graduates and post graduate students in various disciplines and professions. In addition these institutions reform their curricula and course programmes at regular intervals to be able to keep abreast with the needs of the rapid technological, societal and institutional changes to be able to meet the requirement of the clients. However, once these graduates are push out of the walls of the institution which trained them, they are forgotten. They are not followed through the use of tracer study paradigm to find out about what they are doing with the training they received and what they need to help them improved their knowledge and skills on continuous bases to be able to meet the challenges of the flux of the changes in science and technology. In short, they are forgotten and neglected as well.one wonders about the basis for curricula and course programmes reform in the Philippine higher education institutions to be able to introduce new courses to provide current knowledge and skills for their clients. This paper provides documentary analysis about the need to use the traces study paradigm for the enhancement of the course programmes offered in University of La Salette specifically for Hotel and Restaurant Management Programme to be able to meet the demands of changing educational, socio-economic, industrial and
technological demands of the new century.
TRACER STUDY OF BSHRM GRADUATES FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS (S.Y. 2006 – 2011)
P A G E |1
The importance of being educated