Education and Training for Development in East Asia: The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialised Economies (Esrc Pacific Asia Programme (Series).)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Tables......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Introduction and overview......Page 9
Introduction: education, training and economic growth......Page 15
The World Bank approach......Page 17
Evaluation of the World Bank approach......Page 22
Statist approaches......Page 23
The industrial relations approach......Page 28
A political economy approach to skill formation......Page 29
Our method......Page 33
Introduction......Page 35
The nation-building and consensus formation processes......Page 36
Reliance on MNCs......Page 39
The industrial base and the demand for skills......Page 41
The response from the education and training system......Page 44
The industrial base and the demand for skills......Page 45
The response from the education and training system......Page 48
The industrial base and the demand for skills......Page 50
The response from the education and training system......Page 52
Mechanisms for linking the education and training system with the demand for skills......Page 57
Conclusions......Page 60
Introduction......Page 63
The social preference for education......Page 66
South Korea’s stages of economic growth......Page 68
(ii) From import substitution (IS) to export-oriented industrialisation (EOI)......Page 69
(iv) Liberalisation and democratisation......Page 71
Institutions......Page 73
Export-oriented industrialisation and economic take-off......Page 76
Skills for the HCIP stage......Page 78
The period of liberalisation......Page 80
Reform of the skill formation system......Page 82
Contradictions and conclusions......Page 86
Introduction......Page 89
Distinctive features of Taiwan’s system......Page 91
Background to economic take-off......Page 93
Export-oriented industrialisation......Page 94
The present economic conjuncture......Page 96
The post-colonial period......Page 98
The era of manpower planning......Page 99
Institutions......Page 103
Policy making......Page 107
The skill formation system into the twenty-first century......Page 108
Conclusions......Page 112
Distinctive features: industrialisation via market forces......Page 114
The first phase......Page 115
The second phase......Page 117
Phase 1: Using the market to deliver education and training......Page 121
Phase 2: Expanding the government delivery of education and training......Page 125
Linking mechanisms......Page 131
The changing role of government......Page 132
Problems and policy directions at the time of handover......Page 133
Introduction......Page 136
Politico-economic strategy......Page 140
Mechanisms to link trade and industry policy to education and training provision......Page 142
Centralised control and rapid responses......Page 144
Maintaining linkages through time......Page 147
The case of Hong Kong......Page 150
Conclusion......Page 155
Introduction......Page 160
Direct influence......Page 161
Indirect influence......Page 166
Conclusion......Page 168
Singapore......Page 170
Korea......Page 171
Taiwan......Page 172
Malaysia......Page 173
Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations......Page 174
Notes......Page 177
Bibliography......Page 183
Name index......Page 196
Subject index......Page 199