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Vocational Education and Training in Asia

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International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

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General or vocational education? This is a ‘tough choice’ in many developing countries (Yang, 1998, p. 289). In the human capital framework, general education is said to create ‘general human capital’ and vocational and technical education ‘specific human capital’ (Becker, 1964). The former is portable across one’s life and from job to job, while the latter is not and hence many advocate general education, as more suitable for a flexible labour force that can change task and even the type of work; but the latter has an advantage, imbibing specific job-relevant skills, that can make the worker more readily suitable for a given job and would make him or her thus more productive. Hence both are important, and education systems in many countries therefore include both general and vocational streams of education in varying proportions.

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    Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

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  1. Flinders University Institute of International Education, Australia

    John P. Keeves

  2. National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryo Watanabe

  3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education, Bonn, Germany

    Rupert Maclean

  4. Griffith University, Southport, Australia

    Peter D. Renshaw

  5. University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Colin N. Power

  6. New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand

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  7. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    S. Gopinathan  & Ho Wah Kam  & 

  8. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

    Yin Cheong Cheng

  9. Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Albert C. Tuijnman

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Tilak, J.B.G. (2003). Vocational Education and Training in Asia. In: Keeves, J.P., et al. International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3368-7_46

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