Maclean, Rupert

Prof. Rupert Maclean (馬敬言) was the Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Chair Professor of International Education, and UNESCO Chair Professor in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning at the Education University of Hong Kong.

He was the foundation Director of UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education in Bonn; the Director of Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris; Acting Director of the UNESCO Principal regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok; Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) at UNESCO Bangkok; and, UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor for the United Nations project to strengthen and upgrade teacher education throughout Myanmar.

His scholarly work in education, and particularly in technical and vocational education and training, is well known from his numerous published books, chapters, articles and reports. He has a thorough understanding of Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in the Asia-Pacific region, contextualized by his broad grasp of educational issues, developments and scholarship world-wide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Australia, 13 June 2011, for his distinguished service to technical and vocational education particularly through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Selected Recent Publications

• LEE Chi Kin John, PAVLOVA Margarita, MACLEAN Rupert (Apr-2016). School-to-work transition in Hong Kong: suggestions for the vocationalization of secondary education. James Nicholas Publishers.

• PAVLOVA Margarita, MACLEAN Rupert (2014) Global and regional networks to promote education for sustainable development in TVET. Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers.

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