Taking the Government’s flagship project Make in India one step ahead the Apprenticeship Rules 2019 has been modified by the…
Browsing: Skill Development
By 2020, India will be blessed with a median age of just 28. Quality education and skill-building can become the…
As per the estimates, the total workforce in the logistics sector will increase from the current 21 million to over…
The Indian Retail industry has witnessed a phantom leap in growth and expansion as new players set foot into the…
Apprenticeships have always helped young minds to gain career opportunities with wage premiums. This age old practice of apprenticeship has…
Have you met the often overlooked but nonetheless talented pool of students outside mainstream education? In the millennial era, anyone…
India is known for its robust workforce in IT and supports services across the world. Ours is a country of young population,…
Let’s begin with employability rates of the cream of the crop of India’s higher education – 1.5 million engineer graduates every year…
In an extremely gratifying development, giving apprenticeships a robust shot in the arm, the Central Apprenticeship Council (CAC), under the…
Skills directly impact the economic development of any nation- a sentiment germane to India’s workforce development challenges. Between 2017-2022, the…
While a juggernaut of vocational training and education rolls out through various policies and schemes, what does it mean for…
Several industry-friendly amendments in 2014 to the Apprentice Act (1961) saw an impressive 15% growth in apprentice engagement during 2015-16,…
Of the nearly 15,000 ITIs, 84% are privately run. The 2017 Annual Report of the Ministry of Skill Development and…
It is heartening to note the prominence given to vocational education in the Additional Key Focus Areas section of the report. 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…
In a two-part article, we examine recent developments in policy and regulation in education, vocational training and skills development aimed…
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,…
Recognising the pivotal role of apprenticeships as an industry-led, application-oriented, effective mode of formal training, the current government launched the…
In a rush to mass skill populations to avert crises of unemployment, governments often find themselves scrambling to put too…
Building skills is an expensive affair central to which is good data on various metrics or indicators that are integral…
The Indian workforce is highly stratified and segmented. A strong vetting system of key indicators of skills training is tremendously…
Ten automotive labs will be set up in India as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Honda…
The purpose is to create a win-win situation for communities in which they operate and also address the problem of attrition in the business.