Education, Skills and International Cooperation

“Kenneth King’s clarity of perception and memory makes the book a historic study … . King’s clarity of memory and reference pays personal tribute as well to many other key figures in policymaking whom he met, worked with and either admired or critiqued. These include Birger Frederikson, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Patricio Cariola, and contemporary scholars and economists like Amartya Sen. The list is itself a record of key thinkers and actors in the field of development.” (William Ozanne, International Review of Education, Vol. 65, 2019)

• Introduction: Education, skills and international cooperation.- 1. The politics of Negro education.- 2. Skill acquisition in the informal sector.- 3. Aid, research and education.- 4. Education and training for self-employment.- 5. Education, training and their enabling environments.- 6. The vocational school fallacy revisited.- 7. Africa’s informal economies: Thirty years on.- 8. Re-targeting schools, skills and jobs in Kenya: Quality, quantity and outcomes.- 9. Skills and Education for All from Jomtien (1990) to the GMR of 2012: A policy history.- 10. Experience, experts and knowledge in Japanese aid policy and practice.- 11. African students in China.- 12. The geopolitics and meanings of India’s massive skills development ambitions.- 13. Conclusions.