Vocational education and training (VET) development and social dialogue in Egypt: A historical institutional perspective

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Journal of Vocational Education and Training Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI:10.1080/13636820.2023.2258496

Salma Soliman

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Abstract

ABSTRACTThe policy problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) development is an ongoing challenge for many developing countries. International organisations and donor agencies conceptualise the problem as one of skill supply and demand mismatch. Such a market-based perspective offers important insights into the problem; however, it does not sufficiently emphasise the influence of the historically institutionalised systems in which key VET actors, such as the state, employers and workers, are embedded. In this article, we use evidence from the Egyptian context to explore some of the key institutional features that have historically influenced VET and its trajectory to development. We use a process tracing approach to analyse documents on VET development in Egypt from 1955 to 2011. The analysis shows the persistence of weak VET and weakly articulated state-employer-worker relations across three temporal phases identified by critical junctures during this period. The study calls for a broader conceptualisation of the VET development problem to account for the historically rooted institutional relationships between the state, capital and labour in Egypt.KEYWORDS: Vocational education and training (VET)skill supply and demand mismatchsocial dialoguestate-employer-worker relationsEgypt Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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埃及职业教育与培训(VET)发展与社会对话:历史制度视角

摘要职业教育与培训发展的政策问题是许多发展中国家面临的一个持续挑战。国际组织和捐赠机构将这一问题定义为技能供需不匹配。这种基于市场的视角提供了对问题的重要见解;然而，它没有充分强调历史上制度化体系的影响，在这些体系中，关键的职业教育行为者，如国家、雇主和工人，都被嵌入其中。在本文中，我们使用来自埃及背景的证据来探索历史上影响VET及其发展轨迹的一些关键制度特征。我们使用过程追踪方法来分析1955年至2011年埃及职业教育发展的文件。分析表明，在这一时期的关键节点确定的三个时间阶段中，持续存在薄弱的职业教育和薄弱的国家-雇主-工人关系。该研究呼吁对职业教育培训发展问题进行更广泛的概念化，以解释埃及国家、资本和劳动力之间历史上根深蒂固的制度关系。关键词:职业教育与培训(VET)技能供需不匹配社会对话-雇主-工人关系埃及披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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Journal of Vocational Education and Training EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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5.20

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Vocational Education and Training is a peer-reviewed international journal which welcomes submissions involving a critical discussion of policy and practice, as well as contributions to conceptual and theoretical developments in the field. It includes articles based on empirical research and analysis (quantitative, qualitative and mixed method) and welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The journal embraces the broad range of settings and ways in which vocational and professional learning takes place and, hence, is not restricted by institutional boundaries or structures in relation to national systems of education and training. It is interested in the study of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, as well as economic, cultural and political aspects related to the role of vocational and professional education and training in society. When submitting papers for consideration, the journal encourages authors to consider and engage with debates concerning issues relevant to the focus of their work that have been previously published in the journal. The journal hosts a biennial international conference to provide a forum for researchers to debate and gain feedback on their work, and to encourage comparative analysis and international collaboration. From the first issue of Volume 48, 1996, the journal changed its title from The Vocational Aspect of Education to Journal of Vocational Education and Training.