It is heartening to note the prominence given to vocational education in the Additional Key Focus Areas section of the report. The…
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Employability rates among college graduates languish under 50% dropping to 30% in disciplines such as commerce and arts. Equally alarming, an astonishing…
The National Youth Policy 2014 defines ‘youth’ as persons between the ages of 15-29 years. Rural male and female youth…
Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in India are a major pipeline for skills-based and vocational training. From 59 institutions in 1956, there are…
The saying ‘the hand that rocks the cradle’ has enormous economic connotations for India’s ambitions towards an inclusive workforce. The…
We continue from Part I – Are Industrial Training Institutes Up to The Job? where we examined the quality of technical and…
The narrative on India’s education system is many things at once – hopeful, despondent and overwhelming. India’s Higher Education system…
Skills training has never been more crucial for a work-ready workforce in India. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship…
In a two-part article, we examine recent developments in policy and regulation in education, vocational training and skills development aimed…
Kotak Securities (KSL) has appointed Jaideep Hansraj as its managing director and CEO. Previously, he was CEO, wealth management and…
A recent survey revealed close to 76% of Indians view dearth of employment avenues as a ‘very big problem’. And a…
In the highly acclaimed Harvard Business School Press book, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, authors…
TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) in India is often marred by inefficiencies owing to the problem of too…
The Indian mindset harbours a deep-set bias for a conventional higher education degree. The relevance of a bog-standard graduate degree…
Skill development is used by economies the world over to propel youth towards higher employability, increased labour productivity, income growth,…
Why is it important for HR heads to have a long-term strategy on workforce planning and skills development? The answer…
SMEs are the ‘local’ experts- with in-depth knowledge of local sectors, skill gaps and employment challenges. They hold enormous opportunities…
Recognising the pivotal role of apprenticeships as an industry-led, application-oriented, effective mode of formal training, the current government launched the…
Anticipating and adapting skills require continuously scanning the work landscape to make meaningful changes to upskill or re-skill workers to…
In a rush to mass skill populations to avert crises of unemployment, governments often find themselves scrambling to put too…
Well-intentioned efforts in developing countries often fail to achieve skilling goals due to ‘capability traps’, defined as ‘a dynamic in…
Matching and Adjusting skills– is part of the three-component framework of the Skilling India: No Time to Lose- NCAER 2018[i]…
Whichever way one looks, the numbers on the spread of informality in the Indian economy are alarming- a whopping 95%…
Acquiring & Imparting skills– requiring an overhaul in K-12 education, vocational and technical education and on-the-job training- is part of…
The Indian SME sector is the lynchpin of the country’s economy employing around 40% of the total workforce, next only…
Giving apprenticeships a prodigious shot in the arm, two industry experts expound on the remarkable qualities of apprenticeships in enabling…