This paper outlines how academic supervision based on professional learning community improves teachers' performance. Performance issues affect teachers' academic quality and academic supervision is one way to resolve those issues. Thus, academic supervision is expected to improve teachers' quality. In its implementation, academic supervision should be based on Professional Learning Community (PLC). In PLC-based effort, the management of various school conditions is aimed towards building a dialogue between educators and education staff to learn lessons from daily education practices. Therefore, an academic supervision model is needed to facilitate a PLC-based implementation in order to improve teachers' performance quality. This study employs qualitative descriptive and R&D approaches. The research subject is the PLC-based academic supervision model implemented to improve teachers' performance in Pangandaran Regency, Indonesia.

Tujuan utama penelitian ini untuk mendapatkan gambaran mengenai perencanaan strategi pemetaan pembukaan Prodi baru berbasis penguatan manajemen pendidikan tinggi pada Perguruan Tinggi Swasta, hal ini dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya fenomena putus kuliah, rendahnya tingkat ketrampilan tenaga kerja dan banyaknya lulusan perguruan tinggi sebagai Pengangguran atau tidak terserap IDUKA. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif, studi kasus best practice perencanaan strategis di Universitas Telkom sebagai Perguruan Tinggi Swasta Vokasi di Wilayah Jabar dan Banten. Proses pengumpulan data melalui studi litelatur, studi dokumentasi, wawancara, dan pengamatan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Perencanaan strategik yang disusun menggambarkan pemetaan pembukaan Prodi baru hasil analisis lingkungan yang sistematik dan komprehensif dengan pendekatan analisis lingkungan Penta Helix dan Penerapan Competence Based Education (CBE) dalam Knowledge Management, dengan demikian pemetaan pembukaan prodi baru berbasis penguatan manajemen pendidikan tinggi sudah terdeskripsikan dan terproyeksikan dengan baik yang memiliki saling keterkaitan dalam pembangunan socio-economic yang mendorong knowledge-based economy untuk melakukan inovasi dan kewirausahaan melalui kolaborasi dan kerjasama yang menguntungkan di antara university, government, industry, civil society, dan social entrepreneurs. Kendala-kendala yang dihadapi dalam pemetaan pembukaan prodi baru sudah dapat teridentifikasi dengan baik yang terdeskripsikan pada hasil analisis kelemahan dan tantangan dalam proses analisis lingkungan internal dan eksternal yang kemudian dirumuskan strategi untuk mengatasinya dengan memanfaatkan kajian analisis kekuatan dan peluang. Formulasi model yang direkomendasikan dalam penelitian ini merupakan hipotetik tahapan sistematik yang dapat digunakan untuk melakukan pemetaan pembukaan prodi baru berbasis perencanaan strategis penguatan manajemen pendidikan tinggi di Perguruan Tinggi Swasta.

The main purpose of this study is to get an overview of the mapping of the opening of new study programs based on strategic planning for strengthening higher education management in private universities, this is motivated by the phenomenon of the proliferation of closed study programs, study programs that lack students, and the number of graduates who are not absorbed by IDUKA. The method used is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach, a case study of best practice strategic planning at Telkom University as a Vocational Private College in the West Java and Banten Regions, which on average 9 new study programs are opened per year. The process of collecting data through literature studies, documentation studies, interviews, and observations. The results show that the strategic planning that has been prepared describes the mapping of the opening of new study programs resulting from a systematic and comprehensive environmental analysis using the Penta Helix environmental analysis approach and the application of Competence Based Education (CBE) in Knowledge Management, thus mapping the opening of new study programs based on strengthening higher education management has been completed well described and projected that have interrelationships in socio-economic development that encourage a knowledge-based economy to innovate and entrepreneurship through beneficial collaboration and cooperation among universities, government, industry, civil society, and social entrepreneurs.

The most excellent education systems are those that engage quality and equity in simultaneously. They provide all children chances for a high quality education. Education access, learning process, and outcomes should not be influenced by circumstances outside of the control of individuals, such as gender, ethnicity, birthplace, language, wealth or disability. The aim of the research is to get some information on practices and obstacles in implementing equity in education based on Continuous Quality Improvement cycles in an Islamic Boarding High School in Subang. This paper draws upon qualitative-based research that was organized to describe documents review, observations, and interviews that examines the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles are able to be applied in improving both quality and equity in education. The result reveals that the school is in good category of quality and equity in education.