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- Straddles the fields of skills development for employability, environmental issues, and education for sustainable development
- Helps readers examine complex interactions and interrelationships between these areas
- Adopts an evidence-based approach through surveys, interviews and workshops
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 27)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents an overview of the main research findings and case studies concerning education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies. Focusing on India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam, it discusses government and business sector responses to these issues and how Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems and institutions are addressing both the renewal of curricula in the context of green growth dynamics, and patterns of training and skills development to meet demands. In addition, the book examines cross-country issues, concerns and prospects regarding education and skills for inclusive growth and green jobs for the four countries. These include critical themes and issues in the selected industry sectors triggering a demand for green jobs in the region; how industry is responding to those demands; areas impeding the transition from traditional to green practices; the importance of skills development; the role of TVET in addressing industry needs; and reasons for the slow response of TVET to green skills.While other studies conducted in Asia – and internationally - on the same topic have largely relied on secondary sources, this study conducted by the Asian Development Bank and the Education University of Hong Kong (ADB-EdUHK) is unique in that the findings, conclusions and recommendations reported on are based on primary data. As part of the study, TVET providers, business enterprises, policy makers and practitioners were surveyed using questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. In addition, workshops were held in each of the four countries to ascertain the views of key stakeholders in government, nongovernment organisations, members of the international development community, TVET providers and members of the business sector.The book also provides summaries of the case studies undertaken for India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam.
Authors and Affiliations
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College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Rupert Maclean
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Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
Shanti Jagannathan, Brajesh Panth
About the authors
Honours List for Australia in 211, ‘for distinguished service to TVET, particularly through UNESCO’.
Ms Shanti Jagannathan: Currently Senior Education Specialist in the South Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank, Manila. She led a regional policy research study on Asia's Knowledge Economies: the Next Policy Agenda and a study on Education and Skills for Inclusive Growth and Green Jobs. She was also the Convener of the ADB International Skills Forum in a 4-year series from 2011 to 2014. She works on education policy and strategy for improving the quality, cost-efficiency and labor market relevance of skills development in ADB's developing member countries. She represented the ADB in the Inter Agency Working Group on Greening TVET and Skills Development convened by UNESCO-UNEVOC. Prior to joining the ADB, she worked with the European Union as Development Adviser on education reform programs in South Asia and on gender issues, democracy
and human rights and poverty alleviation. She has published seminar papers, edited conference volumes, published in the World Bank Policy Research series. Two recent publications by Springer that she co-edited are: Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific and a special issue of Prospects (Volume 44), a Quarterly Review of Comparative Education. Mr Brajesh Panth: Currently the Technical Advisor for Education at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He provides technical leadership to the education sector group (ESG) in ADB, leads the preparation of the ESG work plan and facilitates collaboration across sector and technical groups in ADB. He has over 25 years of experience in the education sector including sector assessment, project processing, implementation, evaluation, and policy dialogue, covering all levels—primary, secondary, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and higher education. He h
olds a doctorate in education administration, planning and social policy from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. He worked with the World Bank as senior education specialist before joining ADB in 2001. He has worked in Central Asia, South Asia, China, Ghana, Malawi and the United States. Besides coordinating several publications in ADB, Mr. Panth has made several presentations in different fora and contributed to policy analysis, policy dialogue and analytical work pertaining to his experience in sector wide approaches, basic and secondary education, TVET, higher education, decentralized social services, education reform, results based financing and monitoring, development partner cooperation, and regional cooperation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education and Skills for Inclusive Growth, Green Jobs and the Greening of Economies in Asia
Book Subtitle: Case Study Summaries of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam
Authors: Rupert Maclean, Shanti Jagannathan, Brajesh Panth
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6559-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Asian Development Bank 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6558-3Published: 28 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4902-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6559-0Published: 19 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Sustainable Development, Engineering/Technology Education