Persetaraan Peserta Program Pembelajaran Sepanjang Hayat Menggunakan Formula Full Time Equivalent Students dalam Meningkatkan Enrolmen Pelajar

Abstract

Currently, Malaysia has more than 600 higher education institutes that offers hundreds of courses for secondary school leavers. This scenario however, has led to issues such as competition on student’s enrollment. Since its establishment in 2001, aside from full-time program for SPM leavers, Community College has also offers short courses under Lifelong Learning Department. Selandar Community College has been facing an enrollment issues since its operation 15 years ago. Qualitative approach through document analysis which focuses on secondary data is being used in this study. KKSL 2017’s enrollment data and short courses data are being analyze descriptively using Full Time Equivalent Students (FTES) formula. The purpose of this study is to identify how far the equivalent value of the short courses participants helps in increasing the full-time student's enrollment at KKSL. Result of the calculation using the FTES formula shows that the equivalent value obtained is 24 students. Without the equivalent value, the percentage of KKSL student’s enrollment was at 80%, which has not reached targeted KPI being set by JPPKK. However, after adding up the equivalent value, the total percentage has increase to 80.83% which accomplishes the targeted KPI. In conclusion, the implementation of FTES formula to calculate the equivalent value of short courses participants can assist in achieving full-time student’s enrollment at KKSL. The result of this study provide opportunities for KKSL’s management to plan and implement a more systematic short courses in order to help achieve targeted KPI in full-time student's enrollment.