Tag: vocational training
How pedagogy impacts vocational skills
The draft National Education Policy (NEP) released earlier this year shines the spotlight sharply on revamping Indian education to meet the challenges of gaping...
National Education Policy- Enough focus on vocational education? – Part II
It is heartening to note the prominence given to vocational education in the Additional Key Focus Areas section of the report. The report gives a clarion...
Making skills development work
TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) in India is often marred by inefficiencies owing to the problem of too many cooks – 17...
Engaging employers in youth employment – An apprenticeship perspective
The Indian mindset harbours a deep-set bias for a conventional higher education degree. The relevance of a bog-standard graduate degree has been steadily losing...
Effect of TVET on labour productivity
Skill development is used by economies the world over to propel youth towards higher employability, increased labour productivity, income growth, and development. Skilling is...
Around 400 vocational training institutes de-affiliated by Centre
MSDE has been inspecting and grading the ITIs across the country for quality and infrastructure adequacy.
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
‘Work from office 4 days a week’: Snapchat to employees
Snapchat has asked its employees to come in to office for 80 per cent of the time, that is, four days a week. The...
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Airtel to hire women engineers, offer WFH options
Having rolled out its 5G Plus services in about 12 cities across India so far, Airtel is now all set to have more women...
‘Work from office 4 days a week’: Snapchat to employees
Snapchat has asked its employees to come in to office for 80 per cent of the time, that is, four days a week. The...
‘Cannot force employee to be part of excesses’: French court to employer
An employee, called Mr T, who worked for a Paris-based consultancy firm, Cubik Partners, had to drag his employer to court for being called...
UAE warns companies against cutting salaries of Emirati job candidates
Certain companies were allegedly found to take advantage of the government's salary support programme for Emiratis. This comes right after the week when the...
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EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...
“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
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A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
