UNAIR NEWS – To celebrate the National Education Day on May 2 every year, the academicians of Universitas Airlangga hold a flag-raising ceremony.  Students, lecturers, educational staff and officials of Universitas Airlangga participate in the ceremony.

“Improvement of Higher Education Relevance to Support the Economic Growth” is the theme of this year’s National Education Day. Vice Rector I Prof. Djoko Santoso, Ph.D., who led the flag raising ceremony, said that National Education Day is not merely a day of reflection for the day which Ki Hadjar Dewantara was born, but it is also a reflection on the development of education policy which affects economic growth.

Quoting the Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education Official Address, Djoko said that universities should be responsive to the professional and industrial sectors. Furthermore, he also encouraged the lecturers and students to publish their researches routinely.

“Researches should not stop at publications, but they should be developed to achieve Technology Readiness Level 9,” stated Djoko.

The universities are also expected to implement policies and strategies which support mass production of research result through the industrials.

In the same ceremony, the government through UNAIR awarded Satya Lancana Karyasatya to 69 lecturers and educational staffs. They are given to three employees who have served for 10 years, 20 years and 30 years.

The representatives are Badri Munir Sukoco (Faculty of Economics and Business lecturer) with 10 years of service, Prof. Dr. Drs. Abdul Shomad (Faculty of Law) with 20 years of service and Susetiyono (educational staff) with 30 years of service.

National Challenge

One of the lecturers of FH UNAIR, Dr. Herlambang Wiratraman, said that the future challenge of education is growing social awareness. In his opinion, the current implementation of education is still limited to improve one kind of intelligence and it has not been able to develop the other kind of intelligence.

“Scientist and higher education awareness is expected to take on the challenges of technology, cultural diversity and natural resources wealth, they are not in line with the justice and social security, but on the contrary,  they showed more poverty,” said Herlambang who is also the Head of FH Human Rights Study Center.

Herlambang who is also a visiting researcher in National University of Singapore in 2017 encouraged that the education institution to be bold and uphold the constitutional education aspiration, which is to educate the life of the nation.

Author: Defrina Sukma S

Editor : Nuri Hermawan