The increasing international interest in the Austrian dual system of apprenticeship has triggered a trend to transfer this system, or parts of it, to foreign countries including developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes the trend from a developmental perspective. After a historic...

This study was attempted to identify key factors that are worth to be considered when the government of a developing country designs and implements the pre-employment VET policies and systems. For this, 7 policy cases of Korea were selected and analyzed according to 4 key policy issues that...

This paper reports on the results of the review of the two major scholarship programs of TESDA, namely: (a) the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP); and (b) the Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA). The two scholarship programs account for 73 percent of the number of...