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East and Southeast Asia are in the process of experiencing a period of outstanding economic growth and extraordinarily dynamic development and in view of the political regionalisation process achieving a common market by 2015 it should be lent a significant degree of additional momentum. To sustain the rapid development and face the challenges caused by the structural changes of economies, those societies involved will be depending on a highly skilled workforce and thus on functioning TVET-systems to meet both economic and societal demands. TVET-systems are in a process of permanent adaptation to the socioeconomic environment, which leads to an all-round increase and improvement of praxis-orientation in teaching-learning processes. It is evident that the sole employment of the traditional “chalk-and-talk” method in teacher-centred educational settings, does not produce the required workforce.
Prof.Xiao Feng
Director of IBB
IBB, Tongji University Shanghai
China
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Field of expertise/main research projects Born in August 1961, Prof. FENG Xiao obtained his doctorate from the University of Federal Defence in Munich in 1996 where, following post-doctoral research, he was employed as a professor from 1997 to 1999. He also lectured at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilian University. In 2005 he was appointed director of the Sino-German College of Applied Sciences, and professor and PhD supervisor of the School of Economics and Management of Tongji University. Since 2009 he has been the director of IBB of Tongji University and became the Chairman of the RCP Steering Committee in 2011. Activities over recent years include hosting a municipal talent promotion project in Shanghai, involvement in a key project for the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Education of China, and participation in projects for the National Natural Science Fund. His main research fields are national and regional economics with special focus on economic growth based on HR-accumulation. He has published 2 monographs in Germany and more than 40 papers in China, Germany, England, Portugal, Poland and other countries.
