A Management To Strengthening Islamic Boarding Schools’ Quality Graduates

Abstract

The research aims to explore and observe a management to strengthening Islamic Boarding Schools Graduates in
Indonesian context. This research uses a qualitative approach because this research aims to describe and analyze
the process of strengthening graduates in perspective of management. Various data collection techniques are used
including: observation, interview, documentation study, literature studies and triangulation. The result shows the
planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up stage supported to realize academic and non-academic
graduates’ quality, as well as to develop cultural values and character that can be implemented in everyday life
but still not able to be done to the fullest. At the planning stage, it can be interpreted that the program planning
has been prepared oriented to the quality that can be realized optimally. The implementation in improving
graduates quality conducted in both Islamic schools, includes: Curriculum Development, Learning Activities,
Educator and Educational Personnel Competency Improvement Activities, Student and Extracurricular Activities,
Facilities Management Activities and Infrastructure, Financing Management, Partnership Activities and society’s
role. In the supervision and evaluation part, is done to ensure management to strengthen the graduates is in
accordance with planning. To sum up, the management has not been able to be done optimally, because it cannot
carry out the face-to-face learning process followed by all learners, such as normal condition so that many
obstacles faced by teachers and by learners.