New Policy Frame and Directions of Vocational Education, Training and Employment for Continuous Advances

This research is designed to suggest necessary education and training, new employment framework and main tasks for Korea to accomplish sustainable development based on foresight in a future society. First, the study reviews earlier studies regarding the future foresight and understood future trends, key drivers and uncertainty which have impacts on the education and training, and employment in the future. The STEEP (Society, Technology, Economy, Environment, Politics) analysis framework is laid out to carry out this study. Second, the research focuses to analyze earlier studies, policies and NAVER news related to the education, training and employment in a time sequence. With the collection of data, the research shows the vocational education and training system (relationship between education, training and employment) and its main issues by using big data analysis. Furthermore, the study draws the future issues on the education, training and employment through the keyword matrix analysis. Third, the research selects the crucial future trends, key drivers, and uncertainty in the education, training and employment sectors. Experts group meetings and Delphi study ran in parallel to create the foresight scenario based on the results. The survey contributes not only to draw the high feasible scenario with a desirable picture of our future but also to show the policy issues for the education, training and employment. Fourth, the research suggests the new education, training, framework and policy issues for future employment based upon the analysis and survey results. ..