It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this special issue on HIV and employment. Since the onset of the HIV pandemic in the early 1980s, the nature and course of this illness has changed in dramatic ways. As such, the response of the field of vocational rehabilitation has also grown to meet the ongoing needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS, especially as the need for employment and vocati...

Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity in Europe between 1999 and 2005. We find that one ext...

This study contributes to a deeper understanding and perspective on the current debate structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by investigating effect of technical vocational education training industrial performance between 1980 - 2018. The panel data used for this were obtained from World Development Indicators (WDI), International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Educa...

Although there are already some qualification offers available for enterprises to support resource efficiency innovations, the high potentials that can be identified especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have not been activated until now. As successful change lies in the hands of humans, the main aim of vocational education has to be the promotion of organisational and cultur...

In recent years, various forms of career guidance and career counseling have become more prominent and better serviced in most universities throughout the world. Such services are obviously to the benefit of the students themselves and for society. After an initially slow start, researchers and practitioners in China have now begun to focus on the localization of guidance and counselling theory...

Digital Games as a means of learning have become more important in recent years. Infrastructural and sociological developments have created fertile grounds for game innovations, making use of latest technology and being welcomed by new generations of learners. This chapter focuses on an overview of the current state of the art of learning games, explaining different perspectives. As the gamers’...

Foreword igh-school-level vocational educationwhich is supported to a small degree by federal fundsis perennially subject to scrutiny. Given the changing nature of employers' demands, one important question is whether those young men and women who take vocational education courses in high school and go to work rather than to college or other postsecondary education are better off economically...

The process of selecting or developing an assessment begins with an examination of the intended uses of the assessment results. The first section of this chapter explores the purposes of vocational assessment and classifies the case studies of alternative assessment systems by purpose. Then, because vocational assessments must take into account the characteristics of the students being educated...

Practical teaching is an important part of teaching activities in colleges and universities. Based on the characteristics of vocational colleges, the article expounds the importance of practical teaching in the teaching system of vocational college. Meanwhile it makes an analysis on the current situations and development demand of vocational college, discusses how to make more students make ful...