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Vocational Education and Training (VET) is usually understood to nurture talents in industrial development, but it seems different in the Hong Kong context. In view of the deindustrialization in the 1990s, VET had been no longer on the vital education agenda for long, until an initiative of rebranding to Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VPET) was carried out in 2015. However, it is noted that the VPET initiative is not called for facilitating reindustrialization (also known as Industry 4.0) in Hong Kong. The remained disconnection to industrial development results in problematic and questionable positioning of VPET within the social structure in the local context. Hence, this paper concludes that the repositioning of VPET in social structure is needed in response to the alignment of reindustrialization for global VET development. VPET initiative should become a new paradigm for incorporating the strategic planning of STEM with digitalization and craftsmanship fostering as an innovative feature to promote VPET in Hong Kong better.
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Chun, WS.D., Yau, SH.T., Leung, C.Y., Tang, H.H.H., Hui, H.W. (2022). From Deindustrialization to Reindustrialization: A Repositioning of Vocational Education and Training for Improving Synergy and Connection Within the Social Structure in Hong Kong. In: Hong, C., Ma, W.W.K. (eds) Applied Degree Education and the Future of Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9812-5_28
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