AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE INDUSTRY NEEDS OF AUTOTRONIC COMPETENCIES AND THOSE PREPARED BY THE EDUCATION

This study aims to formulate competencies in autotronics specifically in the cluster of Vehicle Control System (VCS) needed by the automotive service industry (ASI) and its relevance to those taught at Vocational Schools (VSs). Employing a survey method, this research is a quantitative study involving owners, managers, heads of workshops, and service managers of 10 ASI and educators from VSs offering autotronic expertise competencies. Data were collected through questionnaires, structured interviews, observation, and documentation study, and were analyzed descriptively. The results reveal that, of the 30 VCS competency units (CUs), 4 are both needed by ASI and taught at VSs, 11 are required by ASI but not studied at VSs, another CU is not needed by ASI but introduced at VSs, and the other 14 CUs are neither required by ASI nor trained at VSs.