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Technical Education and Vocational Training in Developing Nations is a comprehensive reference source for the latest literature on optimizing the implementation of curriculum development and instructional design strategies for technical and vocationa ...
Internationally, Australia’s tertiary education system, comprising the higher education and vocational education and training (VET) sectors, is highly regarded, with both sectors subject to ongoing national review and reforms. This paper explores i ...
The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges environment is marked by increasingly stark juxtapositions between what needs to be achieved in the post-school education sector and the increasing difficulty of current conditions. ...
Understanding the costs and benefits of vocational education and training provides a basis for decision making regarding the investment in training. This is an important consideration for many stakeholders in the VET system, including individuals, bu ...
The BIBB News newsletter provides data and information on important issues relating to VET practice.
BIBB News deals with matters connected to the development of European standards that ensure greater transparency and comparability of certificates and qualifications, the vocational training market, the costs and benefits of vocational training and a ...
Definitive version subsequently published in International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5),(2012), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805931200017X
CIER researcher, Lesley Powell, presents some of her doctoral findings on why learners value vocational education and training in South Africa.
This paper applies the capabilities approach to the broader debate of the role of vocational education an ...
There are lessons for Australia in the key approaches to the development, approval, maintenance and quality assurance of qualifications adopted in countries overseas. This research takes into account a range of approaches used in selected European Un ...
Weekly periodical publication by Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET) (in Korean only)
This study considers issues pertinent to ensuring the Australian education and training system can respond to emerging skills demand in the following industries: food and agriculture; biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; advanced manufacturing; mining ...
This study considers issues pertinent to ensuring the Australian education and training system can respond to emerging skills demand in the following industries: food and agriculture; biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; advanced manufacturing; mining ...
published in: Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2
Vocational Education and Training (VET) policy in South Africa is based on a narrow set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and the reasons that they are in public further education and training (FET) colleges. These assumptions reflect ...
Permeability, successful school-to-work transitions and international mobility
This bibliography, jointly published by UNESCO-UNEVOC and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), covers the topics of international mobility, transfer and transitions in TVET, and their role in increasing its attractivene ...
This report explores some of the key issues associated with assessment in vocational education and training (VET) and reflects on some possible solutions. The authors provide examples from three industry areas where concerns have been raised about th ...
Abstracts of Research Commissioned by National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRCS)
A compilation of 41 research abstracts published by KRIVET research staff in 2012. Its purpose is to serve as a guide for students, experts and policy makers interested in vocational education and training as well as human resources.
National Vocational & Technical Training Commission
Through the Vision 2025, NAVTTC has identified five priority areas and is clear with regard to its targets for the next two years to five years i.e. 2013-18. NAVTTC possesses confidence to share its vision and timelines in priority areas and face all ...
National Vocational & Technical Training Commission
Through the Vision 2025, NAVTTC has identified five priority areas and is clear with regard to its targets for the next two years to five years i.e. 2013-18. NAVTTC possesses confidence to share its vision and timelines in priority areas and face all ...
In a paper presented to the Association for the Development of Education in Africa in 2012, CIER researcher Lesley Powell, reviews the history of research on skills development in South Africa.
This report examines the factors that have contributed to the economic growth of Korea in the latter half of the 20th century, especially the role played by vocational education and training (VET). Korea's economic development through its development ...
A summary of indicators and rates
Vocational education and training reporting uses various indicators, rates and guidance values to describe developments and problem areas in VET. There are, however, considerable differences in the construction and significance of some of these indic ...
Policy perspectives published several times a year by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET)
The orthodox account of vocational education and training for development is firmly based in Neoliberal assumptions about the primacy of the economic. Yet, there are a range of alternative accounts of development, receiving increasing attention, that ...
A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Educational Development Volume 32, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 696–708
Much of VET policy internationally draws on a toolkit that has been seriously questioned for its logic, international relevance and effectiveness by considerable amounts of academic research. Reflecting primarily on our experiences of leading a compl ...
Abstracts of Research Commissioned by National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRCS)
A compilation of 41 research abstracts published by KRIVET research staff in 2011. Its purpose is to serve as a guide for students, experts and policy makers interested in vocational education and training as well as human resources.
This is the publication of Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET) on the workshop, which was held on September 4, 2012 to share and exchange ideas of strengthening collaboration, with reference to the progress and the ...