Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific

Abstract

Foreword: Mr Bindu Lohani, Vice President, Knowledge Management, Asian Development Bank. Preface: Mr Jouko Sarvi, Practice Leader, and Ms Shanti Jagannathan, Senior Education Specialist, Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank. Series Editor Introduction: Prof. Rupert Maclean, the Hong Kong Institute of Education List of Contributors Acknowledgements: Prof. Rupert Maclean, Ms Shanti Jagannathan and Mr Jouko Sarvi PART 1: MAJOR TRENDS AND CONCERNS IN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 1. Skills Development Issues, Challenges and Strategies in Asia and the Pacific Rupert Maclean, Shanti Jagannathan and Jouko Sarvi 2. Lifelong Learning: meaning, challenges and opportunities Colin Power and Rupert Maclean 3. Vocationalisation of secondary and tertiary education: what next? Margarita Pavlova and Rupert Maclean 4. Education, Employability Employment and Entrepreneurship Meeting the Challenge of the 4Es Manish Sabharwal 5. Coping with Rural Transformation and the Movement of Workers from Rural Areas to Cities: the China Sunshine ProjectLi Wang and Greg Shaw 6. TVET and ICT Acquisition Process Tapio Varis PART 2: SKILLS DEVELOPMENT - EMERGING ISSUES AND STRATEGIES 7. From TVET to Workforce Development Robin Shreeve, Jennifer Gibb and Shayla Ribeiro 8. Qualifications, skills and workforce effectiveness: the relevance of the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills to Asia William Thorn and Andreas Schleicher 9. Skills Development Pathways in Asia Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Kyungsoo Choi 10. Private Public Partnership to meet the skills challenges in India Dilip Chenoy 11. Skill training and workforce development with reference to underemployment and migration Brajesh Panth 12. Rural Transformation Index - Measuring Rural-Urban Disparities Li Wang, Qutub Khan and Dian Zhang 13. Retire or Rehire: Learning from the Singapore Story James Yonghwee Lim PART 3: TVET AND THE GREENING OF ECONOMIES 14. Skills for a Green Economy: Practice, Possibilities and Prospects John Fien and Jose Roberto Guevara 15. Education and Skills in Asia - Responding to Greening Economies Shanti Jagannathan 16. Redesigning of Curriculum and Training for Skills for Green Jobs in Korea Namchul Lee 17. Hong Kong Employers' Perspectives on a Carbon Constrained Economy and How Technical and Vocational Education and Training Should Respond Rupert Maclean, Eric Tsang and John Fien 18. Advancing employability and green skills development: Values education in TVET in China Margarita Pavlova and Chun Lin Huang 19. Schooling's Contribution to a Sustainable Future in Asia: Can Schools Develop 'Green' Citizens? Kerry J Kennedy and Joseph Kui Foon Chow PART 4: GOING FORWARD: POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS FOR A SKILLS FRAMEWORK 20. Skills for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia and the Pacific Shanti Jagannathan