Rural Internal Migrants Navigating Apprenticeships and Vocational Training: Insights from Cambodia and Laos

The policy phrase Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia (and beyond). TVET is centrally about ‘skills’ development and considered an important policy component in smoothening young people’s ‘school-to-work transition’.

It is seen as increasing young people’s employability and earning capacity thus contributing to alleviating important youth-related social problems such as youth unemployment, intergenerational transmission of poverty, and the mismatch between schooling and the labour market.