Skills Formation for Economic Growth

The Case of Hong Kong
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88479-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

This book explores the vocational education programmes of Hong Kong, programmes that are repeatedly noted for their excellence.

The book traces the founding and development of the Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong, which was set up in 1982 to offer sub-degree programmes in vocational and professional education and training. It shows how it transformed itself from an institution seen by industry, government and the public alike as not meeting the needs of Hong Kong to one that has spearheaded the development of this form of education in Hong Kong, including offering degree programmes in these areas through its Technological and Higher Education Institute.

Written by a leading scholar of vocational education with extensive experience of devising and implementing vocational education programmes, it offers this as a valuable resource to students and scholars of education, particularly in an Asian context, as well as of vocational and professional education and training.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction  1. Education, skills formation and economic growth  Part 2: Hong Kong  2. Hong Kong’s labour requirements  Part 3: The Vocational Training Council  3. Vocational and professional education and training in Hong Kong  4. The Vocational Training Council  5. Strategies for improvement  6. Through-train to higher diploma  7. Through-train to degree  8. Provision of quality education  Part 4: Learning from good practice for the future  9. Lessons from Switzerland and Singapore

Über Autor(innen)

David Lim is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, having served as a dean of modern Asian studies and international business and a pro-vice-chancellor in charge of quality assurance. He has published extensively on the economies of Malaysia and other ASEAN countries and economic development issues generally, and more recently on education, especially quality assurance, in developing economies. He helped to set up the Technological and Higher Education Institute of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) of Hong Kong to offer degree programmes in vocational and professional education and training and became its founding president/vice-chancellor. Before that, he was a deputy executive director of the VTC.