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Part I: The Issues and the Challenges 1. Introduction: Applicant Work-Readiness and Graduate Employability Challenges in the Asia Pacific (John Burgess, Roslyn Cameron, Subas Dhakal and Kerry Brown) 2. Graduate Work Readiness in Asia Pacific Economies: A Review of the Literature (Alan Nankervis, Verma Prikshat and Roslyn Cameron) Part II: Country Studies 3. Labour Market and Work Readiness Challenges: The Case of Taiwan (Min-Wen Sophie Chang and Julia Connell) 4. Enhancing Graduate Work-readiness in Vietnam (Nguyen Danh Nguyen and Nguyen Ba Ngoc) 5. Work Readiness in Malaysia (Noorziah Mohd Salleh, Jude Emelifeonwu, Jonathan Winterton and Kwok Mow Chan) 6. "The Perfect Storm": Constraints on Indonesian Economic Growth Posed by Graduate Work-readiness Challenges (Soegeng Priyono and Alan Nankervis) 7. Work Readiness in Singapore (Peter Waring, Christopher Vas and Azad Singh Bali) 8. Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategic Responses to Graduate Work-Readiness: Challenges in India (Verma Prikshat, Sanjeev Kumar and Parinita Raje) 9. Graduate Employability in Australia: Time for a VET and HE Overhaul? (Alan Montague, Julia Connell and Barbara Mumme) 10. The State of Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training Sectors in Nepal: Implications for Graduate Work-Readiness and Sustainable Development (Subas Dhakal) 11. Work Readiness in Lao PDR (Vipapone Apayvanh) Part III: Comparative Analysis and Conclusions 12. A Comparative Perspective on Work-Readiness Challenges in the Asia Pacific Region (Subas Dhakal, John Burgess, Roslyn Cameron and Alan Nankervis) 13. Conclusion: The future for Work-readiness and Graduate Employability in the Asia Pacific (Roslyn Cameron, John Burgess, Subas Dhakal and Barbara Munne)