This conference was dedicated to the topic of 'Collaboration in technical and vocational education and training (TVET)'. Topics of sessions included: (1) the Regional Cooperation Platform on Vocational Teacher Training and Education in Asia; (2) the types of vocational teachers needed; (3) assessment in TVET; and (4) the possibility of organised collaboration between universities, companies and schools in vocational teacher training. Papers include: The role of VET provider in training partnerships with industry in East Java, Indonesia / Abdullah Helmy; Industry linkages of TVET programs...  [+] Show more

This conference was dedicated to the topic of 'Collaboration in technical and vocational education and training (TVET)'. Topics of sessions included: (1) the Regional Cooperation Platform on Vocational Teacher Training and Education in Asia; (2) the types of vocational teachers needed; (3) assessment in TVET; and (4) the possibility of organised collaboration between universities, companies and schools in vocational teacher training.

Papers include: The role of VET provider in training partnerships with industry in East Java, Indonesia / Abdullah Helmy; Industry linkages of TVET programs in Bangladesh [Underprivileged Children's Educational Programmes] UCEP programs: a successful model / Aftab Uddin Ahmad and Mohd. Habibur Rahman; Indian experience of internal and international collaboration in TVET and prospects of regional cooperation / Poonam Agrawal; Keeping current: the industry knowledge and skills of Australian TVET teachers / Berwyn Clayton; Post study pre-service practical training program for TVET teacher students / Dadang Kurnia, Ilhamdaniah; Good practice in apprenticeship systems: evidence from an international study / Erica Smith and Ros Brennan Kemmis; The importance of assessment for the world-wide comparability of TVET / Gerald Thiel; A study on core curricula for vocational teacher education in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering within regional integrated context / Ha Xuan Hung, I. Wayan Ratnata, Boualinh Soysouvanh and Wang Jiping; TVET research in Australia: its history, roles and impact / Hugh Guthrie; Innovation pedagogy in technical education / Liisa Kairisto-Mertanen, Taru Penttila, Harri Lappalainen and Margareth Gfrerer; Assessing the unemployment initiative programmes in collaboration with technical vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in Nigeria / S. A. Ma'aji and A. M. Hassan; TVET agency-industry collaborations: addressing diversity / Maizam Alias and Razali Hassan; Descriptive analysis of mathematical modeling ability, logical inference ability, and academic achievement in the training of vocational school physics teachers / Maman Wijaya, Agus Setiawan and Paulus Cahyono Tjiang; Strengthening TVET teachers' education through teacher-industry linkages / Masriam Bukit; Mapping national and regional TVET initiatives in Southeast Asia and beyond in response to students and labour mobility / Paryono; Integration of social skills and social values in the National Dual Training System (NDTS) in Malaysia: employers' perspective / R. Mustapha and R. Rahmat; Digital media and remote experimentation in TVET / Reinhard Langmann and Yuliya Lyalina; The influence of more prevalent technology use on the tasks carried out by older employees in Germany / Sabrina Inez Weller; A review of vocational teacher education at the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Laos / Sengprasong Phrakonkham, Bounseng Khammounty and Boualinh Soysouvanh; Transparency of competences via recognition: criteria-based analysis of different European approaches / Silvia Annen; Enhancing the image and attractiveness of TVET / I. Wayan Ratnata; Training on an embedded microcontroller system tool for teachers of vocational high schools in West Java / Yoyo Somantri, Enjang Akhmad, Erik Haritman and Didin Wahyudin; Vocational technology education students' perception on employability skills / Wasimudin Surya; The implementation of animation as a mechanism of pneumatics component learning media / Enda Purnawan and Ristiantoro Permana; Report on the workshop: TVET teachers: Educators? Trainers? Or Master craftsmen? / Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch.