21st Century Sustainable Development for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Asia-Pacific

Green paradigm is emerging in Asia. In order to achieve harmonious development and sustainability, governing green paradigm is critical. The growing significance of sustainability is having a major impact on business, industry, and society as a whole. Hence, preparing the future workforce for the coming green economy is a challenging task for many Asian countries especially in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the post-2015 agenda. As a ground work, greening TVET in Asia to meet the challenges of the green economy for the purpose of sustainability should begin now. The aim of this paper is to map sustainable development in terms of green governance, mindset, lifestyle, economy, education, training, employability and sustainability in selected Asian countries. A country’s quantum leap or leap-frogging in sustainable economy is dependent of its transformation of human resources especially in TVET sector. Thus, TVET should be transformed to fit the requirements of the sustainable green paradigm. The results posit the country’s green governance, best practices, and challenges toward green economy in order to achieve sustainable development. Finally, the implication of green economy on TVET system in selected countries in the Asia Pacific will be discussed.

Keywords:

sustainable development , human resource development , TVET