Enhancing the quality of VET in Hong Kong: recent reforms and new initiatives in widening participation in tertiary qualifications

Enhancing the quality of VET in Hong Kong: recent reforms and new initiatives in widening participation in tertiary qualifications

• Lim, David Dept. of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Journal of Education and Work, 21(1), 25-40, 2008

Routledge

2008

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QF Vocational & Technical Education

Strategic Planning Foreign Countries Vocational Education Accreditation (Institutions) Hong Kong United Kingdom Australia

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

As elsewhere, vocational education and training (VET) has a poor image in Hong Kong. To remove the stigma, the Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong embarked on pro-active strategic planning to make it more relevant and cost-effective, exposed long and widely held myths that VET is for dullards which leads only to low-paid and low-status jobs, provided a through-train education system to ensure that VET is no longer an educational cul-de-sac, and sought external accreditation aggressively. Though it is early days, there is strong evidence that these strategies have worked.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 13639080

• 10.1080/13639080801957246

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2010-09-08