Ethics Study in Professional and Vocational Education: Voices from Practitioners
Volume 6, Issue 2 Rachel Wai-Yi Cheung
Published online: 20 April 2020
Abstract
Higher education vocational institutions train professionally applied talents, and accounting study is one of those vocational studies. This research aimed to conduct a survey in Hong Kong and collect the views from the responding practitioners on whether they agreed with the inclusion of an accountant’s involvement in ethics education could benefit accounting students; meanwhile, their views on additional ethics elements required for our current ethics education. Surveys (N = 164) were collected via web-based online and hardcopy avenues. Convenience samples were adopted. We found that a majority (82.3%) of total respondents (N = 164) answered positively that the inclusion of an accountant’s involvement in ethics education could benefit students. In addition, age and gender do make a difference in their answers, while their working location does not affect much of their answers. Practitioners voiced out that practical work experience, for example, an internship is more important than knowledge learned. The views from the responding vocational practitioners reveal that border ethics elements of accounting education are expected to be included in our current curriculum.
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To Cite this article
Cheung, R. W. (2020). Ethics study in professional and vocational education: Voices from practitioners. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 6(2), 63-68. doi:10.20469/ijhss.6.20001-2
