The Need of New Curriculum Policy for Tertiary Education Nanda Octavia
Faculty of Law, YARSI University
Abstract
Indonesian education system regulates only two credits system for English class in tertiary education level. Yarsi University manages the two credits to equip students with basic-English, academic skills, and job hunting skills into extra-curricular classes. The biggest concern is to train students to be skilful in self-regulation and be outstanding in self-efficacy to prepare their portfolio through work of their interest, strength and needs. Students should know how to identify and solve problems as the demand of digital era. The notion of preparing students to be global citizens versus university low English competence students input makes a huge gap which needs to be filled with a wiser government English credits policies. Then this research is to bring out Yarsi University Law Faculty graduates^ voices on how they perceive two-credit English policy which they encountered while they studied in Yarsi and how the programs have helped them cope the global work-place English command. A qualitative research method, semi- structured interview, is employed to find out the answer of the questions. The research result is expected to bring out the argument for the need to policies changes in credit semester allocation.
Keywords: English class, credit semester, self-efficacy, self-regulation, tertiary education
