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 ...

Promising Practices in TVET and Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States. 19–21 November 2013, Beirut, Lebanon
UNESCO-UNEVOC and UNESCO Regional Bureau, Beirut, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon (General Directorate for Vocational and Technical Education, GDVTE, and Center for Educational Research and Development, CER ...

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 ...

17-18 September 2013, Abuja, Nigeria
Organized in collaboration with the Nigerian National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) the UNESCO-UNEVOC Africa Forum in Abuja, Nigeria was held on 17 and 18 September 2013. The forum provided a platform for networking and dialogue involving inte ...

28-30 October 2013, Moscow, Russian Federation
The UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum for Europe and North America was co-hosted by Moscow-based CVETS National Observatory on Vocational Education/Centre for VET Studies, with the support of the Moscow Institute for the Development of Education. It w ...

27–28 August 2013, San José, Costa Rica
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...

4–6 September 2013, Seoul, Republic of Korea
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...

Prepared on the request of G20 Development Working Group (DWG) Human Resource Development Pillar
This document, jointly prepared by members of the Inter-Agency Working Group (IWG) on Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Skills Development, presents a set of policy recommendations in response to a request from the G ...

25 June to 9 July 2013
From 25 June to 9 July 2013, over 300 participants from 80 countries gathered on the UNEVOC e-Forum to discuss how TVET can address growing numbers of youth unemployment. TVET experts, policy makers, researchers, practitioners and most importantly yo ...

Report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC online conference 22 October to 2 November 2012
From 22 October to 2 November 2012, a moderator-driven discussion was held on the topic of greening TVET for sustainable development. Moderated by Mr Kai Gleissner from the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, a UNEVOC Centre, the virtua ...

From 14 to 16 November 2012, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organized a three-day International Forum on ‘the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET for a sustainable future’ in Bonn, Germany. The Forum was also organized to commem ...

Shanghai Update Issue No. 1, June 2013
In 2012, over 700 experts in technical and vocational education and training, including 40 ministers and deputy ministers, attended the UNESCO Third International Congress on TVET in Shanghai, China. They came to Shanghai in order to discuss the tran ...

The essays presented in this e-publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO’s new Education on the Move series. Just like the latter, they cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, ...

14 - 28 May 2013
This report summarizes the discussions that were held in May 2013 during the e-Forum virtual conference on the implications of the ICT revolution for TVET, moderated by Nik Kafka from Teach A Man To Fish. Information and Communication Technologies ...

A joint project between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation, UK Final Evaluation Report
This report involves the findings of the final evaluation of the regional entrepreneurship education project in Arab States component II (2011-2012), which is a joint activity between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation. It aims to help the development ...

Dieser Flyer beschäftigt sich mit dem UNESCO-UNEVOC Internationalen Zentrum und dessen Aufgaben, Ziele und Wertvorstellungen. In diesem Dokument sind deshalb auch UNEVOCs Aktivitäten auf einem Blick zu finden , sodass Schwerpunkte der Organisation ...

A joint project between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation, UK
The regional synthesis report on Component II of the initiative highlights the results and outcomes of the project in the four participating countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Oman. The regional experiences reflect a growing importance to ...

The UNESCO-UNEVOC in brief brochure provides a quick overview of the work of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre.

Improving technical and vocational education and training through international exchange and knowledge sharing
The UNEVOC Network is a worldwide network of specialised institutions in the field of TVET. It consists of UNEVOC Centres from the majority of UNESCO's Member States. This flyer briefly describes the UNEVOC Network and the roles of UNEVOC Centres and ...

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 ...