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In
low-income countries with a weak
private sector ,the government
needs to play a strong role in
financing and delivering
training, until such time as the
private sector is in a position
to absorb a larger share of the
task.
In middle-income countries with
a large industrial sector and
widespread basic education, on
the other hand, the private
sector can assume a more active
role.
In rapidly growing economies
with a strong private sector,
the tendency is to leave the
delivery of VET largely to the
private sector so that business
and industry are able to assume
and discharge most of the
training functions.
The trend towards
demand-driven and private
sector-led VET centered on
enterprise needs is gaining
ground, however, due attention
must also be devoted to the
supply aspect of training.
Enterprise-led training should
improve the effectiveness,
efficiency and relevance of VET
and its rapidity of response to
market requirements.
Demand-driven VET, however,
tends to have a short-term
vision of human resource
development, favoring
job-specific training in order
to meet immediate and
foreseeable needs. Moreover,
technology and the working
environment are changing so
rapidly that longer-term demand
is not always clearly
predictable. This needs to be
counter-balanced by the
provision of sound education and
broad-based initial training to
provide the workforce with a
flexible and adaptable skills
base. It is the government’s
role here to give a long-term
perspective to the development
of national skilled manpower,
with the emphasis on broader,
multiple skills which enhance
worker employability and equity.
Laws and regulations in many
aspects are necessary at a much
later stage
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All
reform movements in democratic
societies can be understood as
the result of a consensus
achieved between stakeholders.
The stakeholders in the field of
the VET-reforms are the
governments (politicians), the
entrepreneurs from different
sectors, the target groups and
their families, trade unions and
important personalities like
representatives from different
religious and ethnic
communities.
All reforms have to be organized
with a proper strategy and in
the context of the interest of
the beneficiaries, the target
groups and the political &legal
framework.
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