تطوير التعليم التقني والمهني السعودي، الكليات التقنية العالمية : دراسة ميدانية مدعومة من قبل المجلس العلمي في المؤسسة العامة للتدريب التقني والمهني
This study aims to identify the level of satisfaction of graduates of international colleges towards the colleges to which they were enrolled, and to identify the specific reasons for their enrollment in each international college. Moreover, the opinions of graduates of international colleges in regards to the educational environment were gathered to determine ways to enhance the positive outlook and reduce the negative perception among graduates of international colleges towards college enrollment, and to identify the most important results of this study to enhance Saudi technical and vocational education. Results of this study show the following: the level of graduate satisfaction from international colleges inclined to be moderately positive, as the general arithmetic mean of the responses for both male and female graduates reached (1.89) out of (4) degrees and a coefficient variance of (46.4%). It is also apparent that there is a statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the average responses of study participants in regards to graduate satisfaction levels with regards to student majors. For example, aviation maintenance graduates showed differences in average responses when compared to computer science majors, where aviation maintenance students were more satisfied than computer science majors and scored (0.461) with a significant level of 0.017. This indicates the positive overlook of aviation maintenance students, which was higher than computer science students in regards to the level of satisfaction from international colleges. This indicates that studied majors had an impact on the level of satisfaction from international colleges. It was also noted that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) between the average responses of study participants in regards to the level of satisfaction with international colleges to which they were enrolled. The study also found that the reasons that led to the enrollment of graduates of international colleges tend to be neutral, as the general arithmetic average of the responses of graduates and students of international colleges in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was (1.75) out of (3) degrees and a coefficient of difference (47.0%), which is an arithmetic average that falls within the second category of the triple scale categories, where the responses of the study members reflect a neutral view towards enrollment in international colleges. The most important reasons that made students join international colleges are as follows: 1) The importance of technical and vocational training for the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 2) The personal inclinations agree with what was studied at the International College. 3) The labor market needs for technical and vocational training graduates. 4) The ease of education/training found at international colleges. (Published abstract)