1st Edition
Sustainable and Dynamic Graduate Employability A Comparative Overview across Geographies
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List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: Europe and the Middle East
1 Consequences of economic change for VET and individual employability in Germany
DETLEF BUSCHFELD AND NADINE WEIFELS
2 Skills in England: The need for alternative pathways
KEN MAYHEW
3 Higher education, skill development, and the evolving graduate employability landscape in the United Arab Emirates
ARAZ KHAJARIAN, LINDA C. ANGELL, ALIZEH BATRA
PART II: Asia-Pacific
4 The development of TVET in Australia
MALCOLM ABBOTT
5 Skills for sustainable employability: Strategies in India
MONA KHARE AND SONAM ARORA
6 Skills for future: Country policy and programmatic approaches in education and training in Vietnam
THE ANH NGUYEN
7 Reorienting technical and vocational education policies in Taiwan towards economic and social sustainability
I-HSUAN CHENG
8 Skilling the demographic bonus: Progress and gaps in Indonesian employment strategies
AGUSTIAN SUTRISNO
PART III: America and Africa
9 Design, approach and challenges of the vocational education and training framework in the United States: Delving into the state-level diversity
SAHANA ROY CHOWDHURY AND ATISHA GHOSH
10 Trajectory towards developing skills for the future: A decolonial perspective from Zimbabwe’s higher education sector
EVELYN CHIYEVO GARWE AND JULIET THONDHLANA
11 Mid-level skills development in South Africa: An evolving post‑apartheid landscape
JOY PAPIER, SOPHIA MATENDA AND GERALD VOLLENHOVEN
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Biography
Mona Khare (PhD) is Professor and Head of the Department of Educational Finance, CPRHE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. An expert and consultant with UNESCO, APO, UNICEF, BC, and various government bodies. Her main areas of interest are employability of educated youth, Financing of Education, educational internationalisation, and spatial disparities in educational development. She has published widely nationally and internationally. Her experience spans across higher education administration, research and training of government officers for more than two decades.
