Editors:
- Highlights the importance of generating new knowledge on skills at the secondary level
- Provides innovative models for skills delivery
- Synthesizes important lessons from six case studies
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 26)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Employability in developing countries
- Global youth unemployment
- ISESE project
- Inclusive skills development
- Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement
- R4D
- Skills development models
- Skills enhancement
- Sustainable livelihoods
- Systemic curricular change
- Workforce development
- Workforce readiness
Editors and Affiliations
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Results for Development Institute (R4D), Washington, DC, USA
Shubha Jayaram, Wambui Munge
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Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Bob Adamson
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Print Perfect, Tai Po, Hong Kong
David Sorrell
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UNESCO’s MGIEP, New Delhi, India
Nitika Jain
About the editors
Shubha Jayaram is a Senior Program Officer at the Results for Development Institute (R4D), where she works on the education portfolio. She leads initiatives focused on workforce development and youth employability, including the Rockefeller Foundation-supported project Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement (ISESE).
Wambui Munge is a Communications Officer at the Results for Development Institute (R4D). At R4D, she conceptualizes, plans and implements communications activities in Global Education.
Dr. David Sorrell is an independent education consultant based in Hong Kong. David currently serves as an Associate Editor for The International Journal of Comparative Education and Development; Associate Secretary for the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK); General Secretary for The Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA); and Executive Director for The Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA).
Nitika Jain works at UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), New Delhi, as part of a project that reviews the policy and curriculum documents of education systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Raised in Hong Kong, she received her BA in English from the University of Exeter, and completed her MEd in Comparative and Global Studies in Education and Development at the University of Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bridging the Skills Gap
Book Subtitle: Innovations in Africa and Asia
Editors: Shubha Jayaram, Wambui Munge, Bob Adamson, David Sorrell, Nitika Jain
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49485-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49483-8Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84171-7Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49485-2Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 148
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Curriculum Studies, International and Comparative Education