Internationalization in Vocational Education and Training

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Internationalization in VET: An Overview

   • Ly Thi Tran, Kate Dempsey

   Pages 1-15

3. Internationalization and Its Impact on VET

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The US Community College After Globalization

      • John S. Levin, Ariadna I. López-Damián, Marie C. Martin, Michael J. Hoggatt

      Pages 19-40

   3. International Student Mobility and Its Impact on the Australian Private VET Sector

      • Rinos Pasura

      Pages 41-62

   4. Internationalization in European Vocational Education and Training

      • Kathrin Kaleja, Regina Egetenmeyer

      Pages 63-76

   5. Teacher Professional Development Under the Impact of Internationalization in VET

      • Ly Thi Tran, Truc Thi Thanh Le

      Pages 77-94

   6. International Students and Further Education Colleges in England: The Context, Policy Tensions, and Some Aspects of Practice

      • Roy Fisher, Mike Saunders

      Pages 95-114

4. VET Transfer and Appropriation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Management of Knowledge in International VET: Diversity of Practice from Laos, Kuwait, and China

      • Mark Rahimi, Helen Smith

      Pages 117-134

   3. Adapting International Influences and Retaining ‘Vietnamese Character’ in VET in Vietnam

      • Ann Reich, Tien Thi Hanh Ho

      Pages 135-147

   4. Australian VET in China: What Has Changed?

      • Kate Dempsey, Xia Tao

      Pages 149-166

   5. Korea’s Vocational Education Training Sector in a Globalized World: Current Practices and Future Plans

      • Mihae Mary Nahm

      Pages 167-185

   6. Policy Lender and Borrower at Once: Korea’s Developments in the VET Sector and Its New Pathway to Apprenticeship

      • Antje Barabasch, Stefanie Petrick, Cheonsoo Park

      Pages 187-206

5. Extending the VET Boundaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Internationalization in Senior Secondary Vocational Education in the Netherlands

      • Hilde Bastiaannet

      Pages 209-228

   3. English Instruction at Community Colleges: The Language Bridge to the USA

      • Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ran Li

      Pages 229-241

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Internationalization with VET Character: Key Emerging Issues

      • Kate Dempsey, Ly Thi Tran

      Pages 245-252

7. Back Matter

   Pages 253-255

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This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries. It considers the impact of internationalization and student mobility on VET at the sectoral, institutional and individual levels as the sector emerges as a key tool for social and structural change in developing nations and as a flexible and entrepreneurial means of growth in developed nations. The book explores not only the effects of the neo-liberal market principle underpinning VET practices and reforms, but importantly considers internationalization as a powerful force for change in vocational education and training. As the first volume in the world that examines internationalization practices in VET, the book provides VET and international education policymakers, practitioners, researchers and educators with both conceptual knowledge and practical insights into the implementation of internationalization in VET. 

• Appropriation of ‘western’ models
• Education export
• Export of VET programs
• International education
• Internationalization of VET
• Internationalization of higher education
• Student mobility
• TVET
• Teaching and learning in VET

• Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

  Ly Thi Tran

• Independent Education Consultant, Melbourne, Australia

  Kate Dempsey

Ly Thi Tran is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia and an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow. Ly’s research and publications focus on international students, student mobility, international vocational education and training, pedagogy and curriculum in international education and Vietnamese higher education. She has been awarded three grants for research on international student mobility and staff professional development in international education by the Australian Research Council. Her book ‘Teaching international students in vocational education: New pedagogical approaches’ won the 2014 International Education Association of Australia’s Excellence Award for Best Practice/Innovation in International Education. 


Kate Dempsey is an organisational consultant who has operated her own business, Kate Dempsey & Associates, for 29 years. She assists businesses with change management and organisational review. In addition to her consulting work, Kate is an academic who has taught Leadership and Managing Change to Master’s level students and to Bachelor of Business students. She currently teaches in the Latrobe online MBA course. She is a Research Fellow at Deakin University, specialising in research on educational internalisation. She was Executive Officer for an association of public Vocational Education and Training institutions in Australia from 2008 to 2015, where she prepared more than 18 research and best practice documents on international vocational education and training.

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