Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar for TVET Experts, RMIT International University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 5-7 October 2009

The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre worked with RMIT University (a UNEVOC Centre in Australia) and the Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (CPSC) to organize a seminar on TVET Teacher Education for Sustainable Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on 5-7 October 2009. The 24 TVET experts that participated in the seminar came from institutions in Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

The objectives of the seminar were to:

• Map contemporary issues of sustainable development for inclusion in TVET teacher education programmes;
• Identify current and new approaches to TVET teacher education that address such issues, especially in relation to globalization (e.g. international workforce mobility, the global financial crisis, etc.) and climate change (e.g. energy efficiency, the ILO Green Jobs Initiative, etc.);
• Elaborate strategies for strengthening the contribution of TVET teacher education programmes around such issues; and
• Advise the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre on future regional activities to support TVET teacher education for sustainable development.

The seminar built the capacity of mid-career professionals and raised new ideas for integration into the participants’ home country systems and programmes. It provided the participants with information for reorienting TVET teacher education curricula and practices to address sustainable development issues. Recommendations to UNECO-UNEVOC and partners for supporting countries and institutions in enhancing the contribution of TVET teacher education to contemporary issues were also developed.

Documents

Background paper and programme

Report of the meeting