By expanding education with equity, promoting brain circulation, and linking education with the economy, the Government of the Republic of Korea promoted human capital development to improve the welfare and lives of its citizens. As the country’s experience has shown, institutional building and rolling out national campaigns can overcome common reluctance to technical and vocational education and training experienced in developing countries.

Introducing infrastructure and pedagogical innovations in technical and vocational education and training (TVET), ITE Singapore is an authentic learning facility to prepare work-ready skilled workforce. It also serves as a hotspot for industry practitioners to collaborate and co-create relevant TVET training programs.

Private sector resource mobilization is a vital component in skills financing. Employing a revenue-generating scheme is considered the most reliable course of action to meet training needs and skills demands. The use of a decision tree is also crucial in determining and applying the most appropriate methods in financing skills for work.

Conducting market research is a critical component of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion to determine and segment the audience. Market research results direct how communication approaches can be positioned and which channels to use to effectively reach different audiences. Asian Development Bank’s Mid-Level Skills Training Project in Timor-Leste (2012-2017) used the results of a Youth Training and Employment Perception Study it conducted to formulate a targeted communications strategy.

Most technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion efforts currently emphasize the course, not the resulting job. Conducting market research is critical to understand who TVET’s audiences are, their interests and concerns, and what they aspire to be.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) aims to improve education and training to meet the changing needs of industry. JICA’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) projects focuses on the training of trainers in Viet Nam and on improving the quality of TVET to meet industry needs in Cambodia.

Starting operations in 2015, the Antipolo Institute of Technology (AITech) in the Philippines is an educational institution owned and managed by the City Government of Antipolo, and is the first to offer a baccalaureate course on construction management engineering and technology. AITech aims to contribute to nation building by developing a new breed of professionals who are able to blend knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values for construction engineering.

In the People’s Republic of China, different types of higher education Institutions serve different roles in university-industry linkages (UIL). As the nature and outcomes of UIL are shaped by local institutional contexts, it is essential to create strategies that are context specific. The key is to align economic incentives with efforts to ensure the success of UIL.

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET), in general, equips workforce with lifelong and technical skills that are required from employers. One of the ways to finance TVET is by setting up a dedicated fund for skills development, known as skills development fund.