by Betsy Brown Ruzzi My colleague, CIEB Director Betsy Brown Ruzzi, recently spoke with Bruce Poh, Director and CEO of Singapore's Institute of Technical Education, about Singapore's efforts to strengthen the country’s already strong vocational education and training system. In 2013, Singapore convened the Applied...
This month, the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) presents Keys to a Successful Vocational Education and Training System, an infographic for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The infographic shows the organizing principles and practices that distinguish the systems that are most effectively and efficiently preparing...
by Jennifer Craw This month CIEB released an important new report, Made In China: Challenge and Innovation in China’s Vocational Education and Training System, which includes the findings from dozens of interviews with Chinese government, business and education leaders and visits to vocational schools and...
Key Reports New CIEB Report: Gold Standard: The Swiss Vocational Education and Training System In an era marked by increasing competition, automation, and globalization, how does Switzerland, a country that produces comparatively few university graduates, enjoy the world’s 4th highest per capita income and an unemployment rate...
Cross-posted at Education Week A few years ago, my team and I were doing research in a high school in a Midwestern community. We found ourselves in the classroom of a long-serving high school vocational education teacher, standing around a workbench in his woodshop. He was...
Cross-posted at Education Week In 1978, When Deng Xiao Ping took over the moribund Chinese economy, only the Red Army had access to people with any significant technical skills. China had an informal education system that was millennia old, but Mao had destroyed the formal Chinese...
by Marc Tucker You’ve never been to Estonia? You owe it to yourself to go. We just returned and the warm glow of the visit has not yet worn off. We cannot wait to go back. What these modest, friendly and highly educated people have pulled...
Poverty Among U.S. School Children For the first time in history, a majority of students attending U.S. public schools come from low-income families, according to a report by the Southern Education Foundation based on the latest data collected from the states by the National Center for...
by Betsy Brown Ruzzi In this week’s Tucker’s Lens, we hear from Ursula Renold, former General Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, now at ETH Zurich, about one of the world’s leading vocational education and training systems – Switzerland. In the...
by Jackie Kraemer & Jennifer Craw In the 21st century, vocational education and training (VET) plays a vital role in preparing students not only for immediate employment, but also with skills that allow students to continue their education and training and learn throughout their careers....