Following the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Meeting on "Innovation and Excellence in TVET Teacher and Trainer Education" at Hangzhou / China on November 8 - 10th 2004, the Chinese Ministry of Education through Tianjin University, UNESOC-UNEVOC and the German goevernment, through InWent, jointly organized a follow-up conference on "Development and Implementation of a Master Degree Standard for Teacher and Trainer Education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in East and South East Asia". The conference took place at Tainjin / China on December 9th and 10th 2005, and was attended by more than 80 participants from ten countries, most of them from East and South East Asia. The document is a revised version of the manuscript prepared by Professor Lauglo for the conference at Tianjin in December 2005.