Transitioning from school to work is an important stage in a young person’s life. Matching what young people learn at school with the skills employers need helps youth to transition more quickly and into a better job. Increasing the share of training taking place in companies can help to strengthen the matching of skills, facilitate … Preparing ASEAN’s Youth for the Labour Market
Breathing life into ASEAN’s intersecting commitments on higher education and the youth is an overwhelming task, but thankfully, ASEAN has found a partner in the European Union.
Higher education plays a vital role in developing a highly-skilled workforce.
The ASEAN Youth Development Index (YDI) is a tool designed to keep track of the level of development and wellbeing of the region’s youth in the following domains: education; health and well-being; employment and opportunity; participation and engagement; and ASEAN awareness, values, and identity. Each domain is composed of several indicators or measures. The data … What is the ASEAN Youth Development Index?
There was a time when job ads were a lot shorter. Those ads would not take up more than three or four lines in a newspaper, and typically sought candidates with “a pleasing personality.”
ASEAN has, since its inception, facilitated people-to-people exchange in the arts sector across Southeast Asia to encourage dialogue and debate. This unique space for artistic discourse, which fosters pluralistic notions of what constitutes a regional artistic identity and aesthetic, is one of ASEAN’s great legacies and is widely acknowledged, researched, and discussed by a new … ASEAN-KONNECT: Connecting through the Arts
On 8 August 2020, ASEAN turns 53 with a virtual celebration, a first in its history. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to stay apart, but ASEAN’s spirit of unity and togetherness lives on.
The ministers of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) gathered virtually for the 23rd ASCC Council meeting on 23 June 2020 to discuss developments in the socio-cultural sectors in the region, including ASEAN’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Against a backdrop of a raging pandemic and global economic downturn, ASEAN heads of state reaffirmed their solidarity and cooperation at the 36th ASEAN Summit on 26 June 2020. The summit was held via a live-streamed video conference—a first in the 44-year history of the biannual summit.