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Despite India’s educational expansion, especially at the secondary and tertiary levels, its system of higher education, including technical and vocational education and training, remains inadequate.
Though India’s public vocational education and training systems are well institutionalized, they lack the scale, curriculum, financing, and incentives needed to prepare young workers to meet the demands of rapid globalization and technological advancement.
India’s government will also sustain its predecessors’ efforts to strengthen vocational education and skills training.
Many of these efforts are already underway: comprehensive reform of vocational training, a framework for adopting new sources of energy, and, last but not least, a complete overhaul of our tax system in favor of job creation and growth.
Countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany have achieved low unemployment (now around 5%), by deregulating labor markets, expanding vocational training, and reaching sensible wage settlements.
Furthermore, inadequate education at the secondary and tertiary levels, including technical and vocational education and training, is leaving students unequipped to meet the job market’s changing demands.
Investment in high-quality vocational education and training and work-based learning will be essential.
To overcome it, South Korea will need a comprehensive plan for the continued development of its human resources, including expanded vocational education and training for young job seekers.
Among the most effective interventions of this type, demonstrated in Germany and Scandinavia, is to spend money on high-quality vocational education and re-training for workers and students outside universities, creating non-academic routes to a middle-class standard of living.
This means developing differentiated education systems, ranging from vocational schools to doctoral programs, and giving students access to international experience, which can expose them to opportunities beyond national frontiers.
As university attendance becomes more common, fewer capable young people enter vocational training.
The program draws on lessons from vocational education systems in Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Singapore – all GCEN member cities – as well as Switzerland, to help graduates prepare for life after high school.
That means embedding primary, secondary, and tertiary education, as well as continuing education and vocational training, in a comprehensive strategy.
This would involve drug treatment, educational and vocational programs, and behavioral therapy, costing $450 per adult offender.
Similarly, planning, oversight, and financing of technical and vocational education require effective collaboration among business groups, the national government, and municipalities.
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs have also suffered from neglect.
The Balkan Stability Pact of 1999 and massive international support have helped rebuild local education, while developing innovative vocational education and training systems that should boost long-term employment.
Vocational training can soften these blows.
Indeed, universal access to primary education and vocational training programs are at the heart of any strategy to eliminate poverty and ensure stability.
Vocational education and training development can make a powerful contribution towards achieving this goal.
Unfortunately, in many countries vocational education and training suffers from low status, particularly compared to higher education.
The need to convince both policymakers and citizens of the benefits of vocational education and training is therefore pressing.
However such assistance is delivered, one thing is certain: universal access to primary education and vocational training programs is at the heart of any strategy to eliminate poverty and to ensure stability.
Note for the Editor :On 5-7 November the European Training Foundation organizes the conference "Learning Matters" in Turin, Italy, bringing together 250 international officials and experts from 58 countries to discuss new strategies for vocational and educational training in 40 countries neighboring the European Union.
Clearly, China needs to reform its higher-education institutions, including technical and vocational training programs.
Finally, though some evidence suggests that there is an over-supply of university graduates in China, ongoing demographic and sectoral shifts mean that China will encounter a supply deficit of 24 million highly skilled graduates of universities or higher-level vocational schools by 2020.
Investment in vocational training, on the other hand, often generates much lower returns.
The typical only child receives significantly more educational investment than the average twin and is 40% more likely to pursue higher education (as opposed to a vocational school).
Lack of vocational competence never barred Indians from remaining in their caste, and how well one performs in political office is, likewise, not a criterion for politicians to continue in positions of power.
They run and regulate health-care systems and primary, secondary, tertiary, and vocational education.
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