Greater emphasis is placed on general rather than job-specific skills. But incentives for close relationships between education and business are also stressed. . Tax breaks are given for company donations of personnel and equipment to schools.
Assuming the world development community is serious in its Millennium Development Goal of enrolling all children in six years of elementary school by 2015, it could do far worse than to study the early experience of Taiwan, where despite some glitches enrollment was real and not just on paper, students generally remained in school after they enrolled, teachers actually showed up for class and taught seriously, and corruption was kept to a minimum. The contrast in most of these respects to today’s low-income countries is all too striking.