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Venter, Katharine – Journal of Education and Work, 2004
This article argues that China's education system is facing unprecedented pressures to provide appropriately skilled individuals to meet the demands of the rapidly growing economy. In China this is a uniquely complex situation owing to the coexistence of a diminishing command and control economy and a growing market economy. Within this context we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Education Work Relationship, Adult Education
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Mitra, Jay; Matlay, Harry – Industry and Higher Education, 2004
The social, economic and political systems of former communist countries have faced considerable changes since the late 1980s. Most countries in Eastern and Central Europe have undergone their own individual brand of transition from a centrally planned, command system to a more or less liberalized, Western-style market economy. Many observers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Small Businesses, Vocational Education