Vocational High School (SMK) has the priority on developing students skill on competence needed on the work place. Ironically, based on statistics on 2017 open unemployment in Indonesia showed that vocational high school graduates are the biggest contributor for unemployment in Indonesia. Based on this problem, Fitri Nur Mahmudah decided to do dissertation research entitled “Management Model of Vocational High School Cooperation with the Industry” for her doctoral degree at Graduate School UNY.

Limited free open space at home has made people need to think creatively. Such idea has made 7 students from UNY G002 KKN namely Rafid Zuhdi Nugroho (Mechatronics Education), Ridwan Nur Prasetyo (Social Sciences Education), Elsanti Devi R (Social Sciences Education), Anita Saraswati (Educational Technology), Rismawati (Javanese Language Education), Sonya Ambar Aji (Biology Education), and Hanis Ristiyana (Indonesian Language and Literature Education) under the guidance of Annisa Fillaeli, M.Sc. to organize training event on Pucunggrowong, Karang Tengah Village, Imogiri, Bantul.

Jurang Jero Tourism Forest is one of the national parks in the slopes of mount Merapi. It is located in Srumbung District Magelang Regency Central Java Province. Jurang Jero is one of new attractions that are started to be explored. Thanks to massive development that was carried out by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Mount Merapi National Park Office unit, there are many tourism potential worth to be developed. Unfortunately, it will be a challenging attempt on tourism management aspect due to low level education background for youth around Jurang Jero Forest.

The key to success being an entrepreneur is to be courageous.  To be successful, it is important for any entrepreneur to dare facing the risk, dare to lose, dare to gain profit and dare to succeed. “If you do not have the courage, you won’t be a successful entrepeneur,” Ibnu Kurniawan Hidayat, S.Pt said on general lecture held in UNY’ Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday (11/10/2019). This general lecture was attended by students of Public Administration Study Program UNY.

Muhammad Dery Prakoso (Chemistry study program) and Akhmad Fauzi Sugiharto(Office Management Education Study Program) earn memorable achievement on national competition of Business Plan Management Economic Event 2019 at Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Bali on Sunday(29/9/2019). They earn the third place and also favorite winner on the event with the theme “The next Young Entrepeneur”.

The World Indonesianist Congress 2019 is a forum that offers an opportunity for Indonesianist to share ideas and thought about Indonesia. To build Indonesia’s future, it is essential to take further effort on human capital development as highlighted by President Joko Widodo. Such statement are made by Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Abdurrahman M.

UNY student team successfully earn silver medal at The 2019 Inventors’ Hall of Fame, International Competition of Ideas, Inventions & Innovations (I-Fame) 2019 in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Kedah, Malaysia. The team consist of Rusita (Chemistry), Intania Putri (Chemistry), Nuzulia (English Education), Watik Novianingsih (Social Sciences Education), and Lilis Aryanti (Office Management). Participants of I-Fame 2019 came from various countries from Indonesia, Malaysia, Bulgary, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Thailand, Bangladesh, and China.

"Sport Science is needed to develop high-performance athletes, especially physical, technical, tactic and psychological. But unfortunately, there are still many trainers in our country who do not want to apply sport science because they consider that science and technology make their work harder, "said Prof. Dr. Hari Setijono M.Pd from UNESA gave his academics speech in Graduate School UNY.

The Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta organized a Public Lecture for Public Administration students with the theme “Challenges of South East Asian Countries to Achieve Sustainability Development”. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Zubir Ibrahim from the School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) was invited to give a lecture at the hall room of IsDB building of Faculty of Social Sciences.

Fossil energy sources is running low. It will greatly affect our need for transportation, industry, electricity and many more. This has risen the need to innovate more on any potential renewable energy sources. One of the options that we have is biogas. Utilization of biogas energy sources has begun to be developed at the PandanMulyo Agriculture and Rural Training Center in NgentakPoncosariSrandakan, Bantul. The production capacity is quite limited.