National Initiatives - Republic of Korea

Policies/agreements

• Adapting Education to the Information Age - 2001
• Comprehensive Plan for the Lifelong Education Promotion
• Social Pact for Job Creation
• Tripartite Commission Agreement Concerning the Direction of Improvement in the Vocational Training System

• Towards Social Integration and a Competence-Based Society: Comprehensive Measures to Overcome Exclusivity and Elitism

Programmes

• Labour-Management Cooperation Programme
• Vocational Ability Development Program under the EIS

Institutions

• Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS)
• Korea Labor Institute (KLI)
• Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET)
• Presidential Commission on Education and Human Resource Policy (PCEHRP)

Systems/frameworks

• Career Guidance
• Evaluation of Vocational Training
• In-plant Vocational Training
• System of Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Databases/research

• 2000 Population and Housing Census
• EDUNET