Call for Papers: International conference on TVET for Employment, Income, and Job Quality, 11&12 September 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal

The LELAM-TVET4Income project team Nepal organizes the project's first stakeholder conference aiming at interfacing distinguished TVET practitioners, policy makers, researchers and employer (industry) for the enhancement of the sector with the following specific objectives:

- To understand the dynamics of TVET particularly related to its contribution towards youth employment, income, and job quality
- To contribute for knowledge building on prominent aspects of TVET
- To share innovative practices and concepts of TVET theoretically and practically
- To highlight the challenges, constraints, opportunities for youth employment
- To share experiences on building and sharing TVET knowledge
- To provide a national/ international forum for TVET sector
- To strengthen a national/ international network of TVET sector

Conference Themes

The conference will have the main theme of TVET for Employment, Income, and Job Quality. Staying within this broad theme, the conference will have following sub-themes:

- Policy, planning, and practices
- Institutions and systems
- Governance and power sharing
- Financing and fund sharing
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Teaching and learning Quality, equity, and relevance
- National and international case studies
- Work, education, and training
- Occupations and occupational areas
- Development and TVET
- Sociology of TVET
- Inclusion in TVET

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30, 2019

Abstracts for papers should not not contain more than 300-500 words, for posters not more than 150-250 words and workshop proposals not more than 500-600 words.

Acceptance Notification: May, 2019

Full Paper Submission: September 1, 2019

To submit abstracts, here is the external page link to the conference website.