Ady Soejoto, Waspodo Tjipto Subroto
The objective of this research is to examine several economic factors which have been proved as influencing the quality of graduates of educational unit, that is vocational high school, in East Java. This research applied quantitative approach, with variables examine in this research are the support of industries, social economic, and the quality of learning process. The result of this research shows that the quality of graduate of educational unit is affected by the support of the industry, social economic condition, and quality of learning processed. The conclusion of this research is that in orderto improve the quality of productive resource of graduates of educational unit or vocational high school, the support of the industry needs to be improved with programme partnership, the social economic condition of the society should be improved by increasing the allocation of public fund for education., especially to improve the quality of graduate, and the job opportunity should be improved, the society should be urged to obtain higher education. The spending budget for the improvement of the quality of learning process should be improved, including training cost, incentives and stationery.
Economic, Faculty of Economics, State University of Surabaya, Indonesia
