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The Policy Challenge of High Skills Vocational Education and Training in the Future Social Changes

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  • Jung-Yeon Lim

    (Korea Polytechnics, Incheon, Korea)

  • Young-Min Lee

    (Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea)

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The article aims to analyze the cases of high skills human resources development (HRD) vocational training programs in future strategic industries. This article analyzes the cases of ongoing HRD training programs for strategic industries in Korea. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the strategic industry training, carried out in specialized industrial training institutions in Korea, are mostly focused on the environmental, weather, and robotics industries, in addition to bio-industry. Second, the key drivers of future high skills strategy training turned out to be industrial convergence and globalization. Third, many experts were invited to be instructors to manage the quality of the high skills training programs. Based on the findings of these case studies, this article suggests the promotion of high skill vocational training for strategic industries in Korea.

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  • Jung-Yeon Lim & Young-Min Lee, 2019. "The Policy Challenge of High Skills Vocational Education and Training in the Future Social Changes," Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), IGI Global, vol. 17(1), pages 39-49, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jeco00:v:17:y:2019:i:1:p:39-49
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