Preview Issue 7

Jan 25, 2016 | Uncategorized

Call for Papers

Title:
Quality Assurance as Basis of Trust and Labour Market Relevance of TVET Qualifications

Editors:
TBC (UNESCO Bangkok)
Andrea Bateman (Independent consultant)
Mike Coles (Independent consultant)
Anne Busian (TU Dortmund University)

As Asia moves towards greater socio-economic integration, mutual recognition of qualifications and their quality assurance is becoming ever more important. Countries that have developed National Qualification Frameworks (NQF) are now shifting attention to their implementation including through the establishment of quality assurance mechanisms which are the foundation for mutual trust, relevance and recognition across borders. In that context, exploring quality assurance in Asia is a timely endeavour.

UNESCO Bangkok is therefore inviting authors interested to contribute to the 7^th issue of TVET@Asia (www.tvet-online.asia), an online TVET journal. The articles (10-15 pages) can be research-, practice- or policy-based and address one or more of the following themes related to quality assurance of TVET qualifications at national level:

Evolution of quality assurance development in TVET;
Policies, institutional arrangements and legislation related to quality assurance of TVET qualifications;
Assessment that underpins qualification arrangements of learners and providers in TVET;
Employer, employee and civil society organisations involvement in assuring the quality of TVET qualifications;
Capacity development to support quality assurance of TVET qualification;
Funding quality assurance of TVET qualifications;
Quality assurance as a way to increase labour market relevance of TVET qualifications.

Authors:
Open to any interested author.

Copyright and Charges:

TVET@Asia will publish the submission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, copyright stays with the authors.

This journal does not charge article processing or submission charges.

Timeline:

Please send an abstract of no more than one page, a short CV/profile (half page) and a list of publications to the editorial board via issue7@tvet-online.asia by February 29^th, 2016;
Please use “form-abstract_tvet-online.docx” which you find with other forms for download at https://www.tvet-online.asia/preview
Submit a draft by March 31^st, 2016.
Your draft will be reviewed by a peer and sent back as soon as possible.
Send the finalised paper by May 15^th, 2016.
Tentative publication date: end of June/beginning of July 2016