Skills Formation for Economic Growth

David Lim is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, having served as a dean of modern Asian studies and international business and a pro-vice-chancellor in charge of quality assurance. He has published extensively on the economies of Malaysia and other ASEAN countries and economic development issues generally, and more recently on education, especially quality assurance, in developing economies. He helped to set up the Technological and Higher Education Institute of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) of Hong Kong to offer degree programmes in vocational and professional education and training and became its founding president/vice-chancellor. Before that, he was a deputy executive director of the VTC.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Education, skills formation and economic growth Part 2: Hong Kong 2. Hong Kong’s labour requirements Part 3: The Vocational Training Council 3. Vocational and professional education and training in Hong Kong 4. The Vocational Training Council 5. Strategies for improvement 6. Through-train to higher diploma 7. Through-train to degree 8. Provision of quality education Part 4: Learning from good practice for the future 9. Lessons from Switzerland and Singapore