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From School to Work: Contemporary TVET Regional Experiences

— theme: Youth Employment Policies and Programmes, Skills for Youth, Entering the World of Work
— country: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (The Republic of), Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
— type: Good Practices

National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER) Japan, 2007 (Seminar report with regional good practices) - The assimilation of youth and young adults into the world of work has become an important policy issue for the majority of countries. Worldwide, changes in the nature of work and employment have weakened the prospects of long-term and secure jobs, even for the most educated young people. A high level of youth unemployment has become a global phenomenon, but it is especially prominent in the Asia-Pacific region. This region is home to over 45 percent of the world’s young people without work (in 2005, 39.2 million young people were unemployed). Young people are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults, especially young women are affected

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National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER)
Publishing Year
2007
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