Indonesia Conference Directory

The study is aimed to determine the principals policy in establishing partnerships for improving quality in private vacational schools in Magelang Regency.The research of the data was taken through interviews, observation, and documentation. Informants were chosen purposively, and the data sufficiency used snowball sampling technique. The research informants included the principal, vice principal, head of the expertise program, and business world and the industrial world. The result of the data analysis shows that the principal places internship and curriculum synchronization as a system to improve the schools positive image and competitive competence of the graduates through the recruitment, teaching factory, competency test and certification. The results of the research showed that generally all vocational schools in Magelang Regency collaborated with industrial partners, especially in the implementation of the industrial work Practice program and curriculum synchronization in the same way, processes and stages. While the differences in the programs namely in the competency test, manpower recruitment, teaching factary and teacher internships and industry visits not all schools programmed in writing but in practice all schools implement them. The implications of this research that the principals in establishing partnerships aims to improve the quality of the school. In other words, the principal should be able to make a policy by establishing partnerships with the business world and the industrial world as its partners.