A RESEARCH ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND YACHT BUILDING SECTOR IN BODRUM

Abstract

Yacht and boat manufacturing industry is a sector that has a great added value, can provide employment and has a high export rate. This industry machinery, iron-steel, wood, paint, chemistry, electricity-electronics, textile, decoration, rubber-plastic etc. It is an industry branch that produces as a result of combining the products of many industrial branches in shipyards and receives service from various service sectors. In the world rankings, Turkey has shown a steady rise since 2007, especially in the construction of superyachts (24 m and above), and continued to be the third in total length in 2010 - 2017. Educational institutions that train personnel for the yacht building sector in our country are only at the level of vocational high schools. Students who graduate after high school cannot continue an education on yacht building, which is a continuation of high school education in vocational college or faculty programs. The results and suggestions to come out of this study are very important in order to maintain the success of the sector in the international platform and to move it to better points. Attention will be drawn to the training on Yacht Building and opinions will be taken about the necessity of the training, its problems and the dimension of the university. Within the scope of the study, the opinions of the companies that actively manufacture and the educational institutions that have students and teachers will be obtained by pre-prepared questionnaires. In line with the results obtained, determinations will be made and suggestions will be made for solutions.