Korean government has been calling for the innovation of education and training system to narrow the gap between school education and employers’ requirements and to address the high youth unemployment rate issue.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea introduced the Work-Learning Dual System in 2013.
It was adopted to get rid of mismatches between school education and workplaces based on the National Competency Standards led by companies.
Innovation Tag: Human Resources
The Poverty Stoplight (PS) seeks to activate the potential of families to eliminate multidimensional poverty beyond traditional income measures through a self-evaluation tool. PS is used by communities, businesses and governments to support families in assessing their poverty levels and implementing practical solutions, empowering the poor to be architects and protagonists in the process of eliminating poverty.
The programme “Outreach Services: Empowering Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Their Community” empowers persons with disabilities in order to gain independence and encourage the realization of an inclusive social environment that is friendly and caring towards the people with disabilities. It takes a family and community-based social-service model, and the inclusiveness of the innovation also avoids the separation the beneficiaries from their family and community.
Compared to…