Anticipating and adapting skills require continuously scanning the work landscape to make meaningful changes to upskill or re-skill workers to…
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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…
Some groups are more socially and economically challenged than others in finding meaningful employment; such as special needs individuals, women…
For companies new to the notion of apprenticeships, finding the right apprentice for your organisation can feel like a formidable…
The ILO feels that a shift to the formal economy is a pre-requisite to ‘decent work’- which is ‘opportunities for…
There is a lot of noise around the skills-jobs predicament that severely impedes India’s economic prosperity ambitions. Rightly so, given…
Quality assurance in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is an indisputable pillar of a robust apprenticeship and skills…
Skill building has taken centre stage what with India’s conundrum around jobs, employment and wages. Often overlooked is the significance…
Even with rising education levels many countries continue to grapple with a dual employment problem of how to skill youth…
Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder & EVP, TeamLease Services, brings the focus back on productivity and what it hinges on, namely the…
The National Employability through Apprenticeship Program (NETAP) and the India Apprenticeship Forum (IAF) partnered to organise a felicitous interactive discussion…
In our earlier blog, we stated a lack of contact with local training providers as a barrier for smaller firms.…
The dearth of reliable data on apprenticeship make-up in the country by industry/sector/company-size/type etc makes it difficult to gauge the…
SMEs employ around 40% of the country’s workforce which presents an enormous opportunity for a staggering multiplier effect in generating…
For an employer, taking on board an apprentice should not be a financial burden. Businesses the world over have reported…
This is the stuff dreams are made of. Poonam Kumari, daughter of a truck driver, went from being an unemployed…
Digitisation can be loosely defined as the large scale proliferation and adoption of digital technologies by consumers, businesses, and governments.…
Building skills is an expensive affair central to which is good data on various metrics or indicators that are integral…
The sixth edition of the India Skills Report (2019)[i] provides insight into emerging trends and changes in the Indian jobs and…
These are findings from the Future of Work in India report[i] and its related publication Young India and Work- A Survey…