Stakeholders' assessment of forestry education in Southest Asia

Issue Date

2003

Abstract

The dawning of a new forestry paradigm focusing more on people-oriented or participatory forest management has ushered major changes in the forestry profession. This study assessed the responsiveness of forestry education to the challenges created by the new paradigm in forestry. It presents a profile of the forestry profession as viewed by five important stakeholders: the forestry undergraduates, forestry graduates, forest educational institutions, forestry employers, and non-forestry graduates with certain association with foresters. forestry. Recent trends, realities and needs of the current forestry profession were identified and analyzed.

The results showed the discrepancy between the skils and competencies expected by the employers from the graduates and the training provided by educational institutions. Hence, major reform in the forestry curriculum was suggested to give more emphasis on the social dimension of the course and field exposure of the students.

Source or Periodical Title

Journal of Environmental Science and Management

ISSN

0119-1144

Volume

6

Issue

1

Page

1-9

Document Type

Article

Frequency

semi-annually

Physical Description

table

Language

English

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