Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction and overview -- 2 The developmental state and the education and training system -- Introduction: education, training and economic growth -- The neoclassical approach -- The World Bank approach -- Evaluation of the World Bank approach -- Statist approaches -- The industrial relations approach -- A political economy approach to skill formation -- Our method -- 3 Singapore -- Introduction -- The distinctive features of industrialisation in Singapore -- Industrialisation through a managed economy -- The nation-building and consensus formation processes -- Reliance on MNCs -- The development of the education and training system in Singapore -- Stage 1: Establishing a manufacturing base and full employment -- The industrial base and the demand for skills -- The response from the education and training system -- Stage 2: The 'Second Industrial Revolution'-creating a skill upgrading strategy -- The industrial base and the demand for skills -- The response from the education and training system -- Stage 3: Singapore International Incorporated-consolidating a skill formation strategy -- The industrial base and the demand for skills -- The response from the education and training system -- Mechanisms for linking the education and training system with the demand for skills -- Conclusions -- 4 South Korea -- Introduction -- Distinctive features of the Korean system -- The social preference for education -- South Korea's stages of economic growth -- (i) Post-colonial beginnings -- (ii) From import substitution (IS) to export-oriented industrialisation (EOI) -- (iii) The Heavy Chemical and Industrialisation Plan (HCIP) -- (iv) Liberalisation and democratisation.

The East Asian skill formation model in South Korea: linkages between education, training and economic development -- Institutions -- The sequencing of economic development and skill formation -- The post-colonial stage: reconstruction and nation-building -- Export-oriented industrialisation and economic take-off -- Skills for the HCIP stage -- The period of liberalisation -- Reform of the skill formation system -- Contradictions and conclusions -- 5 Taiwan -- Introduction -- Distinctive features of Taiwan's system -- Economic development -- Background to economic take-off -- The first-stage import substitution industrialisation -- Export-oriented industrialisation -- The present economic conjuncture -- Evolution of manpower policy -- The post-colonial period -- The era of manpower planning -- State-led skill formation in Taiwan -- Institutions -- Policy making -- The skill formation system into the twenty-first century -- Conclusions -- 6 Hong Kong -- Distinctive features: industrialisation via market forces -- Stages of economic growth -- The first phase -- The second phase -- The evolution of education and training policy -- Phase 1: Using the market to deliver education and training -- Phase 2: Expanding the government delivery of education and training -- Linking mechanisms -- Conclusions -- The changing role of government -- Problems and policy directions at the time of handover -- 7 Is there a 'Four Tigers' model of skill formation? -- Introduction -- Politico-economic strategy -- Mechanisms to link trade and industry policy to education and training provision -- Centralised control and rapid responses -- Maintaining linkages through time -- The case of Hong Kong -- Conclusion -- 8 On the diffusion of the model -- Introduction -- Direct influence -- Indirect influence -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Hong Kong -- Singapore -- Korea -- Taiwan.

Malaysia -- Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.