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Title: | Enhancing the quality of VET in Hong Kong: recent reforms and new initiatives in widening participation in tertiary qualifications | Authors: | Lim, David | Issue Date: | 2008 | Publisher: | Routledge | Journal: | Journal of Education and Work | Abstract: | 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. | Description: | Available manuscript via VTC Institutional Repository | Keywords: | Vocational education and training Strategic planning Unfounded myths Through-train education External accreditation |
Type: | Article | ISSN: | 1363-9080 | DOI: | 10.1080/13639080801957246 | Links/Full text: | VTC Institutional Repository |
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