Indonesian Undergraduate Instructional Reform Towards A World Class University Graduates

Abstract

The qualities of human resources in Indonesia have not been appropriate with the national hope, and tend to decline, and it is far away from the international human resources quality. Internationally, the rank of Indonesia Competitiveness is decreasing. Among 60 countries in the world, Indonesia is at the 59nd position in 2005. 83.27% of Indonesia university graduates were working as unskills labour. The quality of Indonesian human resources are significantly determined the economic development, law, politics, and social of this country. The qualified human resources will succeed in the world competitions, whereas for those who are not qualified will lose in the competition. The competition in the globalization era is the competition of human resources quality that is provided by education institutes. Therefore, the efforts to improve the undergraduates’ education quality become the programs which have to be supported by all parties, including the educational implementers in central, districts, schools, and community in Indonesia. This paper is aim to discuss for the urgency of instructional reform in Indonesia Undergraduate Education systems. It was based on the thesis that changing curriculum is not adequate. We must change what teacher’s does in the classroom. There will be no educational reform until we have instructional reform, i.e. changes in what teacher does in the classroom to create an environment where learning takes place. We explore An Integrated Holistic Model’s of Student-centered Learning Paradigm by integrating the Soft Skills Attributes for undergraduate education reform should take into account towards a world class universty graduates. Finally, the transformational academic leardership of lecturer is a crucial element in term of quality improvement in teaching and learning in higher education system.