The study entitled 'Comparative Study of Educational systems and policies in Asia-Pacific Area Countries' is a one-three years project. One of the overarching premises of this study is that the economic and political institutions developed within each country have a bearing on its TVET institutions. Given the distinctive economic and political institutions in place in each of these countries, it was surmised that distinctive educational systems would also have been developed. To this end, one major goal of this study was to reveal the main features of each distinctive educational system and policy.
