27/03/2017
This Policy Paper analyses the vocational education and training (VET) system in four selected
countries – namely India, the Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Vietnam. The need for adequately
skilled persons is rising in all four countries. And all four countries have identified the
VET system – in cooperation with the private sector – as a key actor to provide such skills. In
consequence, all four countries have developed individual and apposite measures to strengthen
their VET systems. Even though the four countries are very different in terms of their starting
points and their demographic, economic and institutional framework conditions, they all face the
same challenge: designing a VET system that makes the country future-proof. On the one hand,
such a VET system skills young persons for the labour market and improves their employment
prospects. On the other hand, teaching the right skills is a key necessity for a sustainable
growth strategy for the economy as a whole and for reacting to current challenges like the ongoing
digitalisation of the economy. Since in Germany the German dual training system has a long
tradition, it is also introduced as a reference model.
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