Room of Civil Society Development - Vol. 2 No. 4 - August 2023 - Training and Information Provision for Official Higher Education Access

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Education is presented as a key factor in national development and the improvement of human resources through higher education. This service activity provides detailed information on the selection process for official higher education institutions for high school students in Pekalongan City, supported by training materials in the form of entrance-exam practice questions. The program uses socialization and facilitation, collaborating with service partners, including the Pekalongan “Neutron” tutoring institution. With 114 participating students, the activity outcomes show high enthusiasm and engagement through completion of provided practice-question links, enabling better preparation for official college entrance examinations.

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Reading Time15 min

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Introduction

Education and national development

Official higher education institutions (PTK)

Access and preparation for admission exams

Room of Civil Society Development DOI: [https://doi.org/10.59110/rcsd.197](https://doi.org/10.59110/rcsd.197)[ ](https://doi.org/10.59110/rcsd.197)Vol. 2 No. 4, August 2023 Training and provision of information related to the accessibility of official higher education institutions for high school students of the same level in Pekalongan City Arditya Prayogi1*, Ulfa Kurniasih1, Ahmad Faridh Ricky Fahmy1 1UIN KH Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan, Pekalongan, Indonesia Correspondence: [arditya.prayogi@uingusdur.ac.id](arditya.prayogi@uingusdur.ac.id) ABSTRACT Education is an important thing in human life as an effort to be able to live a good quality life. In the context of formal education, higher education has an important role in improving the quality of human resources of a nation and a country so that they become even better. This service activity is carried out with the aim of providing more detailed information related to the selection process for official colleges and providing training in the form of entrance examination questions so that activity participants can better prepare themselves to take part in the official college entrance selection. Community service activities are carried out with the main method of socialization and facilitation of access to official school information by collaborating with service partners from other parties. In this case, the dedication partner is the Pekalongan "Neutron" tutoring institution. Service partners in this activity are parties who play an active role in providing explanations regarding official schools, especially in discussing official school entrance exam questions. This service activity was attended by 114 students from various schools in Pekalongan. From the community service activities, the results showed that the participants were enthusiastic in participating in the activity as evidenced by the good response during the activity. This form of good response is shown by filling in the links in filling in the practice questions so that all participants work on the questions given. Submission of information and practice questions are provided so that participants can prepare well for the official college entrance examination. Keywords: Education; Service College; Service School; Training Copyright © 2023 The Author(s): This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 1. Introduction Education has an important role in the life of a nation, whether a nation is advanced is influenced by the quality of the nation's education itself. Therefore, the government seeks to improve the quality of human resources through education. Education itself is a "system" tobe able to make a nation and state into a great nation and state as stated in Law No. 20 of 2003 Chapter II article 3 concerning the Indonesian National Education System. The law emphasizes that national education functions to develop capabilities and shape dignified national character and civilization in the framework of educating the life of the nation, aiming at developing the potential of students to become human beings who believe and fear God Almighty, have noble character, are healthy, knowledgeable, competent, creative, independent, and become a democratic and responsible citizen. In Indonesian, the term education comes from the word "education" by giving it the prefix "pe" and the ending "an", meaning "deeds" (things, methods or so on) . The term education originally came from the Greek "pedagogie", which means guidance given to Room of Civil Society Development Volume 2 No 4: 130-135 children. This term is then translated into English "education" which means development or guidance. Education in general is a conscious and directed effort to help someone in supporting their degree and dignity by optimizing and advancing one's ability to do all good things (Mustoip, 2018). It is through education that a perso

FAQs

What is the goal of the training activity described in the document?

To provide more detailed information about the selection process for official higher education institutions and to train participants using entrance-exam practice questions so they can prepare better for admission.

How is the program implemented and what main method is used?

Through socialization and facilitation of access to official school information, carried out by collaborating with service partners that explain official school options and entrance-exam questions.

What were the participants’ responses and what evidence shows this outcome?

Participants showed strong enthusiasm, indicated by a good response during the activity, including filling in links for the practice questions so all students worked on the provided questions.

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