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  • What TVET can and must do in a Just Transition to a Green Economy
    Vision Paper
    Institut Für Innovation and Technik (2023) - The transition to a market-based, socially inclusive economic system geared towards environmental sustainability requires major changes in traditiona ...
    2023
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Topic: GIZ | Green TVET | TVET Governance
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  • Implementation of Green Skills in Vocational Education
    Perceptions about Students' and Teachers' Behavioral Activities
    Abstract. Vocational education has a duty to help green industries and sustainable development in society. However, learning in vocational education still has many shortcomings that must be overcome, ...
    2023
    Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengajaran
    Topic: TVET Teachers | Green TVET
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  • Promoting Skills for Work and Life
    UNESCO-UNEVOC (2023) - The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET actively supports Member States in strengthening and upgrading their technical and vocational education and training systems ...
    2023
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: TVET Management | Cooperation
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  • Guidance for generative AI in education and research
    UNESCO (2023) - Towards a human-centered approach to the use of generative AI.  Publicly available generative AI (GenAI) tools are rapidly emerging, and the release of iterative versions is ...
    2023
    UNESCO
    Topic: Digital Teaching & Learning | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Twin Transition
    Digital Tranformation and Climate Policy in Development Cooperation
    adelphi (2022) - Unfolding in parallel, digitalisation and decarbonisation bring about substantive and often disruptive changes across societies. A variety of economic, social and political factors wi ...
    2022
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Topic: GIZ | Green TVET | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • SEAMEO STRATEGIC PLAN 2021 - 2030
    SEAMES (2021) - This final report briefly describes the planning process and tools that the organisation used to come up with the strategic plan. It also contains the plan’s details, along ...
    2021
    SEAMEO
    Topic: SEAMEO
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  • Skills for a Just Transition to a Green Future
    Discussion Paper
    About. The transition to an environmentally sustainable and low-carbon economy, a so called Green Economy, will generate new jobs, while also causing jobs losses, and will alter the skill require ...
    2022
    German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
    Topic: GIZ | Green TVET
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  • Upskilling for shared prosperity in Southeast Asia
    Fostering sustainable growth
    PwC (2023) - Southeast Asia has enormous skilled labour potential, and is home to the third-largest labour force in the world that is predominantly young. However, the region also faces the ...
    2023
    PwC Global
    Topic: Private Sector Cooperation | Labour Market Information | 21st century skills
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  • Skilled to care, forced to work?
    Recognizing the skills profiles of migrant domestic workers in ASEAN amid forced labour
    International Labour Organization (2023) - This study presents up-to-date findings on the lived experiences of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. It takes a quantitative and ...
    2023
    International Labour Organization
    Topic: Labour Market Information | Cooperation
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  • Gamification and Game Based Learning for Vocational Education and Training
    A Systematic Literature Review
    Abstract.  Games have been used as a learning tool for centuries. Gamification and game-based learning are becoming more prominent in educational settings for several reasons. When it comes to l ...
    2023
    Taylor & Francis Online
    Topic: 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation | Youth
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  • Building better formal TVET systems
    Principles and practice in low- and middle-income countries
    UNESCO (13 July 2023) - Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in many low- and middle-income countries do not match skills and labour market needs and are unprepared to meet t ...
    2023
    UNESCO
    Topic: TVET Management | TVET Image | Inclusive TVET | Skills Forecasting | Labour Market Information | Gender | Green TVET | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation | Youth
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  • DIGITAL SKILLING IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
    EFFORTS OF ASIA-PACIFIC’S CORPORATE SECTOR
    The Asia Foundation (Niki Graziella Baroy, 2023) -  Over the past decade, public and private sector institutions have implemented a wide range of digital skilling programs. Given the demand for u ...
    2023
    The Asia Foundation
    Topic: Private Sector Cooperation | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Strategy on Skills and Lifelong Learning 2030
    ILO (29 June 2023) - Lifelong learning empowers individuals and societies to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world, equipping them with relevant knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary for ...
    2023
    ILO
    Topic: Life Long Learning | 21st century skills
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  • Turning Job Seekers to Job Creators
    Talent Management Module Development for TVET Graduates
    Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the economy, particularly the downsizing of operations and retrenchment, which affected various sectors. Post-pandemic prompted a shift in the per ...
    2023
    Journal of Technical Education and Training
    Topic: Curriculum | COVID-19 Response
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  • TVET Academy for teachers and trainers
    Innovative and Promising Practices in TVET
    The Institute of Brunei Technical Education (IBTE) strives to be a community that pursues excellence in teacher training, continuous professional development (CPD), and academic research and developme ...
    2023
    UNESCO
    Topic: TVET Teachers | Teacher & Trainer Standards
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  • A SURVEY OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT GREEN SKILLS COMPETENCY AMONG TVET EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS IN A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN MALA
    Abstract. Green skills are sometimes referred to as sustainable development skills because they are associated with technical skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes required in the workforce to prod ...
    2023
    Proceeding on Computer and Electrical Education Research (PROCESSOR)
    Topic: TVET Teachers | Green TVET | Youth
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  • #HerEducationOurFuture: Innovation and technology for gender equality
    The latest facts on gender equality in education
    This fact sheet was prepared to mark International Women’s Day 2023 and highlight how gender-transformative education can boost innovation and technology. Gender gaps persist in innovation ...
    2023
    GEM Report. UNESCO
    Topic: Digital Teaching & Learning | Inclusive TVET | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Unlocking the Earning Potential of TVET Graduates
    WORKING PAPER 04/23 | 06 APRIL 2023
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Outcomes of TVET graduates have improved over the years. The GTS data, a survey that basically tracks graduates’ status upon graduation, shows that the graduate employability ...
    2023
    Khazanah Research Institute
    Topic: Labour Market Information | Cooperation | Youth
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  • The process for enhancing the voluntary identities of vocational students under the Vocational Education Commission
    Abstract. The purposes of this study were 1) to synthesize and confirm the elements of the voluntary spirit of the vocational students, 2) to survey the current states, problems, and guidelines t ...
    2023
    Interdisciplinary Research Review
    Topic: TVET Management | Youth
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  • TVET in The 21st Century
    Exploring Multimedia Elements in Digital Teaching and Learning Based On Art Content
    Abstract. Research in digital teaching and learning (T&L) focusing on multimedia elements based on art content is essential in enhancing the quality of the curriculum delivery. Inaddition, re ...
    2023
    UTHM Publisher
    Topic: Digital Teaching & Learning | 21st century skills
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  • Learner-centred teaching in technical and vocational education and training
    Perspectives and reviews of six Asia-Pacific countries
    UNESCO (2023) - A learner-centred approach to teaching in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET ) is based on learner engagement, autonomy and outcome-based activities to support profe ...
    2023
    UNESCO
    Topic: TVET Teachers
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  • Governance of TVET in Malaysia
    Gaps and opportunities for researchers
    Abstract. Much research on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Malaysia has addressed how particular organisational and institutional configurations, conditions, and dynamics gov ...
    2023
    TVET@Asia
    Topic: TVET Management
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  • Identifying and Validating Vocational Skills Domains and Indicators in Classroom Assessment Practices in TVET
    Abstract. Technical and vocational education training (TVET) assessment is crucial in determining students’ desired learning outcomes. However, there are several issues with TVET assessment, includi ...
    2023
    MDPI
    Topic: Pedagogy | TVET Teachers
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  • Work Readiness of TVET Graduates in the Context of Industry 4.0
    Proceedings of the 4th ICIEVE 2021
    Abstract. The rapid development in the Industry 4.0 era requires TVET graduates to have high capabilities and competitiveness in an effort to find work and maintain jobs in the global industrial ...
    2022
    Atlantis Press
    Topic: 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation | Youth
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  • ASEAN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AWARD - THE 2022 WINNERS
    ASEAN Business Awards
    The ASEAN Business Awards The ASEAN Business Awards (ABA) were launched by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) to mark ASEAN’s 40th anniversary in 2007. Since then, the ABA have recogni ...
    2022
    GIZ RECOTVET
    Topic: TVET Image | Private Sector Cooperation | ASEAN | GIZ | RECOTVET | Cooperation | Youth
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  • Reskilling and Upskilling in ASEAN through a gender lens
    Policies, lessons learnt and recommendations for future actions
    RECOTVET (2023) - Countries in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region face fundamental changes impacting the workforce: growing investment, increased inequality, technologic ...
    2023
    RECOTVET
    Topic: Skills Forecasting | Gender
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  • Reform of TVET in Vietnam
    Activity Reports and Module Curriculum
    ACTIVITY REPORT. UPDATE ON INFORMATICS SUBJECT IN PREPARATION FOR DEVELOPING DIGITAL LITERACY TRAINING MODULE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND PILOTING AT GIZ’S PARTNER COLLEGES In the context of rapi ...
    2022
    Programme Reform of TVET in Vietnam
    Topic: Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce
    The Global Learning Imperative for Career and Technical Education Programs at Community and Technical Colleges Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce Paper cover
    As the nature of work evolves at an ever-accelerating pace, workers will need to adapt to a state of constant change. To maintain relevance, employees will need to be lifelong learners, adjusting to s ...
    2023
    Asia Society
    Topic: TVET Management | Skills Forecasting | 21st century skills
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  • Relevance of Strategically Planned Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
    ABSTRACT. Every nation is paying attention to and strategically improving SDG-4 (Quality Education) itself and using it as a tool for fulfilling other related SDGs. Today, engineering education p ...
    2021
    ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE)
    Topic: Curriculum | TVET Regulation & Policy
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  • Awareness, Perception and Preparation of TVET Students, Teachers and Managers for Industry 4.0 in Myanmar
    ABSTRACT. Today, every industry is calling for their workforce to develop new skill sets due to the dynamic of technological change. Every country needs to prepare its Technical and Vocational Ed ...
    2021
    TVET @ Asia
    Topic: TVET Teachers | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • TVET for Youth Employment in Myanmar during the COVID-19 Pandemic and After
    Best Practices in TVET Policies Coping with COVID-19 Crisis: UNEVOC Network East and Southeast Asia Cluster Countries
    ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide due to the closure of TVET institutions and training centers and the limi ...
    2020
    UNESCO UNEVOC
    Topic: Digital Teaching & Learning | Youth | COVID-19 Response
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  • TVET@Asia Issue 20
    Governance of TVET in the Era of Digitalization and Sustainable Development
    Editors of TVET@Asia Issue 20: Thomas Schröder (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Paryono Paryono (SEAMEO VOCTECH, Brunei Darussalam), Sommai Pivsa-Art (Rajamangala Universit ...
    2023
    TVET@Asia
    Topic: TVET Governance
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  • A Preliminary Approach toward Development of the TVET R & D Sector for Sustainable Development in Myanmar
    ABSTRACT. The research and innovation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) are crucial in helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. However, most developing countri ...
    2022
    MDPI
    Topic: TVET Management | TVET Regulation & Policy
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  • Green Skills For Rural Youth in South East Asia
    The impacts of climate change, including increasingly severe weather patterns, reach across every country and citizen worldwide, compelling nations to implement sustainable adaptation measures.
    In order to ensure the necessary ‘green transformation’ of market economies, it is essential that workers are skilled in environmentally friendly and adaptive practices. There can indeed be an ...
    2022
    Plan International
    Topic: Inclusive TVET | Skills Forecasting | Green TVET | Youth
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  • ASEAN Communication Master Plan 2018-2025
    ASEAN Secretariat (2023) - The ASEAN Communication Master Plan II (ACMP II) provides the framework to communicate messages about the organisation, development and vision of ASEAN and the ASEAN Communi ...
    2023
    ASEAN
    Topic: ASEAN | Cooperation
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  • Education for a Sustainable Development: A Roadmap
    TVET and Climate Change Action
    TVET and Climate Change Action On 6 April 2022, UNESCO-UNEVOC and Co-leads of the Sustainable Development Goals Affinity Group held a two-hour virtual workshop on the Energy Rapid Overview and D ...
    2020
    UNESCO
    Topic: Green TVET
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  • Entrepreneurial learning for TVET institutions
    A Practical Guide
    UNESCO-UNEVOC and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Skills (BMBWF) jointly organized a series of webinars on Entrepreneurial learning in Technical and Vocational Education and ...
    2020
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: TVET Management
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  • TVET: Scaffolding digital skills to the future
    TVET Tool
    Given the wide spectrum of TVET’s educational programmes, digital competence is correspondingly broad and challenging questions remain about the proficiency levels necessary for effective TVET educa ...
    2022
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: TVET Management | TVET Teachers | Digital Teaching & Learning | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Vocational Education and Training
    Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during ...
    2020
    OECD
    Topic: COVID-19 Response
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  • Guide on making TVET and skills development inclusive for all
    Guide and assessment tool on the inclusiveness of TVET and skills development systems for all
    The guide aims to help skills decision-makers and practitioners assess to what extent their TVET system is currently excluding certain individuals or groups, identifies underlying reasons, and provide ...
    2020
    International Labor Organization
    Topic: Inclusive TVET
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  • Greening TVET and skills development
    A practical guidance tool
    International Labor Organization (18 October 2022) - The ILO developed "Greening TVET and skills development: A practical guidance tool” to support TVET stakeholders to mainstream skills for the gre ...
    2022
    International Labor Organization
    Topic: Skills Forecasting | Green TVET
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  • Trends mapping study
    Digital skills development in TVET teacher training
    UNESCO-UNEVOC (2022) - Digitalization has led to extensive changes in the skills required for work and life. For technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions to remain relevant ...
    2022
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: Digital Teaching & Learning | Teacher & Trainer Standards | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Viet Nam Vocational Education and Training Report 2019
    The Viet Nam VET Report 2019 is now available in English. The publication provides a comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese VET system the year before the Covid pandemic hit.   Some data food ...
    2021
    Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)
    Topic: National TVET Report | TVET Governance
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  • ASEAN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AWARD - THE 2021 WINNERS
    ASEAN Business Awards
    The ASEAN Business Awards The ASEAN Business Awards (ABA) were launched by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) to mark ASEAN's 40th anniversary in 2007. Since then, the ABA have recognise ...
    2021
    GIZ RECOTVET
    Topic: Work-based learning | TVET Image | Private Sector Cooperation | ASEAN | GIZ | RECOTVET
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  • Skilled workforce in ASEAN region: Issues, challenges, and way forward
    Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing regions in the world. With a total of 646 million people and a wealth of natural resources, the region has an expanding middle class as we ...
    2022
    Paryono Paryono
    Topic: Work-based learning | Inclusive TVET | ASEAN Policy | ASEAN TVET Council
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  • Planning the Use of Augmented and Virtual Reality for Vocational Education and Training
    A Practical Guide
    International Roadshow:  Online Toolbox AR/VR-enhanced learning in TVET While the use of technologies such as Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) offer entirely new approaches to teaching an ...
    2021
    German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
    Topic: TVET Management | 21st century skills
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  • Engineering for Sustainable Development
    Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals
    UNESCO (2021) - The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced pro ...
    2021
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    Topic: Curriculum | Career Guidance | Occupational Standards | ASEAN | 21st century skills | Occupation | Youth
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  • Accelerating Women’s Advancement in STEM
    Emerging Lessons on Network Strategies and Approaches
    The Asia Foundation (28 June 2021) - Networks, both formal and informal, play a pivotal role in helping girls and women enter and succeed in STEM fields. They do this by facilitating peer support, rol ...
    2021
    The Asia Foundation
    Topic: Gender
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  • Increase TVET integration and Enhance TVET Quality assurance in the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework
    Final Report
    Since its introduction in 2013, the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework (AQAF) has served as a common reference for quality assurance agencies and institutions of higher education and lifelong learning ...
    2020
    AQAN and RECOTVET
    Topic: Quality Assurance & Development | ASEAN | RECOTVET
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  • Harnessing Digitalization for Sustainable Economic Development
    Insights for Asia
    Asian Development Bank (2021) - Harnessing Digitalization for Sustainable Economic Development: Insights for Asia describes digitalization’s role in raising the productive capacities of ec ...
    2021
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    Topic: Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • New qualifications and competencies for future-oriented TVET - Volume 3
    TVET delivery: providing innovative solutions
    UNESCO-UNEVOC (2021) - This volume focuses on the micro-level stakeholders involved in the implementation of TVET skilling programmes and/or their components. It will suit lecturers, administrato ...
    2021
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: Quality Assurance & Development | TVET Management | Qualification Framework
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  • New qualifications and competencies for future-oriented TVET - Volume 2
    TVET advocacy: ensuring multi-stakeholder participation
    UNESCO-UNEVOC (2021) - This volume addresses the role of meso-level TVET stakeholders in the process of maintaining and updating TVET systems to ensure they remain fit for purpose. Meso-level stakehol ...
    2021
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: TVET Management | Private Sector Cooperation
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  • New qualifications and competencies for future-oriented TVET - Volume 1
    TVET governance: steering collective action
    UNESCO-UNEVOC (2021) - This volume is written with the macrolevel or system-level stakeholder in mind. Macro level stakeholders can be any number of bodies with a mandate for collective action in TVET ...
    2021
    UNESCO-UNEVOC
    Topic: Quality Assurance & Development | Cooperation | TVET Governance
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  • Reimagining our futures together
    A new social contract for education
    UNESCO UNEVOC (2021) - Our humanity and planet Earth are under threat. The pandemic has only served to prove our fragility and our interconnectedness. Now urgent action, taken together, is needed to c ...
    2021
    UNESCO UNEVOC
    Topic: 21st century skills | Youth | COVID-19 Response
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  • Comparative Study on Law and Policies in the Management of Migrant Workers in ASEAN
    ASEAN SECRETARIAT (2021) - The Comparative Study on Laws and Policies in the Management of Migrant Workers in ASEAN offers comprehensive analysis on how ASEAN Member States have dealt with the movemen ...
    2021
    ASEAN SECRETARIAT
    Topic: Labour Mobility | Labour Market Information | ASEAN
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  • Fit for Industry 4.0
    Innovative Learning and Teaching for Digitalization and Automation
    GIZ RECOTVET, SEAMEO VOCTECH (October, 2021) - We are getting used to living in an age of change. This global change is probably nowhere felt more severely than in those countries of Asia which h ...
    2021
    GIZ RECOTVET
    Topic: Teacher & Trainer Standards | GIZ | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation
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  • Human Resources Development Readiness in ASEAN
    Regional Report and Country Reports
       Country Reports  Language    ASEAN Regional HRD Report  English ASEAN Regional HRD Report  Vietnamese Brunei HRD Country Report   ...
    2021
    Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
    Topic: Life Long Learning | ASEAN | 21st century skills | ASEAN Policy
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  • Training Manual on Greening TVET
    Colombo Plan Staff College, 2019 - This Training Manual on Greening TVET is a written document that contains guidelines for trainers who will be conducting training activities related to greening TVET ...
    2019
    Colombo Plan Staff College
    Topic: Green TVET
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What TVET can and must do in a Just Transition to ...

Vision Paper
2023
Deutsche Gesellschaft für I ...
Topics: GIZ | Green TVET | TVET Governance

Implementation of Green Skills in Vocational Educa ...

Perceptions about Students' and Teachers' ...
2023
Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengaj ...
Topics: TVET Teachers | Green TVET

Skilled to care, forced to work?

Recognizing the skills profiles of migrant ...
2023
International Labour Organiz ...
Topics: Labour Market Information | Cooperation

Gamification and Game Based Learning for Vocationa ...

A Systematic Literature Review
2023
Taylor & Francis Online
Topics: 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation | Youth

Building better formal TVET systems

Principles and practice in low- and middle ...
2023
UNESCO
Topics: TVET Management | TVET Image | Inclusive TVET

DIGITAL SKILLING IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

EFFORTS OF ASIA-PACIFIC’S CORPORATE SECT ...
2023
The Asia Foundation
Topics: Private Sector Cooperation | 21st century skills | Industry 4.0 & Digitalisation

Turning Job Seekers to Job Creators

Talent Management Module Development for T ...
2023
Journal of Technical Educati ...
Topics: Curriculum | COVID-19 Response

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