NEWS
Building Skills Awareness in Rural India
Over 66% of India’s population is rural and of the 11 million Indians who lost jobs in 2018, over 80 percent of those losses occurred in rural India. What has led to this alarming crisis? A severe lack of formal vocational skills training in India’s hinterlands is...
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Skilling Formal and Informal Economy Hand-in-Hand
NITI Aayog’s ‘Strategy for New India@75’ states India needs around 90 lakh new jobs annually to absorb the teeming mass of youth entering the workforce. A lot of focus is on creating jobs in the formal sector but a staggering 87% of Indian businesses firms,...
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The Driving Forces Behind Skills Development in India
To successfully leverage our demographic dividend represented by a population where over 50% is under the age of 25, urgent remedial measures need to support government action. Despite a boost in skills funding and a myriad centrally sponsored skilling schemes, what...
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Breaking Development – SME Friendly Fresh Reforms in Apprenticeship Act to Drive Up Numbers
In an extremely gratifying development, giving apprenticeships a robust shot in the arm, the Central Apprenticeship Council (CAC), under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), has proposed new reforms through amendments to the...
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The Latest in Policy and Regulation in Apprenticeships and Skills – Part II
In this concluding section of our two-part article, we continue our coverage of key recent developments from the skills space. Read our education focused article in Part I. Breaking Development - Fresh reforms to boost apprenticeships for SMEs have been...
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The Latest in Policy and Regulation in Apprenticeships and Skills – Part I
With a raft of changes and proposals in education and skilling initiatives, is the skilling landscape in India truly alive and kicking? In a two-part article, we examine recent developments in policy and regulation in education, vocational training and skills...
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Part III – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Welcome back to the continuation from Part I and Part II of our series on the above named ILO report.[i] This time we explore findings and good practices of social partners’ actions, namely employer and worker groups. Responses from India were provided by the All...
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Deconstructing the Apprenticeship Stipend Primer 2019 – Part I
Skill building has taken centre stage what with India’s conundrum around jobs, employment and wages. Often overlooked is the significance of robust data on various skilling metrics or skill indicators without which all good intent is akin to a wild shot in the dark....
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Leveraging the Power of Apprenticeships – A NETAP Event
India Apprenticeship Forum and NETAP Take Centre Stage The National Employability through Apprenticeship Program (NETAP) and the India Apprenticeship Forum (IAF) partnered to organise a felicitous interactive discussion on “Leveraging the Power of Apprenticeships for...
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What Job Creation Needs in India
With a new government at the helm, all eyes are turned towards making India the Skill Capital of the world and reaping benefits from the huge demographic dividend the country is blessed with. From Skill India to Digital India, a plethora of skilling initiatives were...
read more
Impact of Trigger Points on Inter-Ministerial Skills Development Efforts
This article is in continuation of the 4-part series that deconstructs the ILO-UNESCO report on ‘Taking A Whole of Government Approach to Skills Development’.[i] Read Part I of the series here. In this section, we examine seven potential triggers that can ease or...
read more
3X Increase in Apprenticeship Stipend
This is being suggested by NITI Aayog to ramp up the popularity of the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) both among candidates and reduce the financial burden on companies. The finance ministry has received a proposal to increase apprenticeship stipends...
read moreResearch
Impact of Trigger Points on Inter-Ministerial Skills Development Efforts
This article is in continuation of the 4-part series that deconstructs the ILO-UNESCO report on ‘Taking A Whole of Government Approach to Skills Development’.[i] Read Part I of the series here. In this section, we examine seven potential triggers that can ease or...
read more
Part IV – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Read Parts I, II and III for a sequential appraisal of inter-related themes of this ILO report. A quick recap of Part I, II and III of ILO's report In this concluding section of our series on the above named ILO report[i], we examine the remaining two activity themes...
read more Part III – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Welcome back to the continuation from Part I and Part II of our series on the above named ILO report.[i] This time we explore findings and good practices of social partners’ actions, namely employer and worker groups. Responses from India were provided by the All...
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How to get a dream career even without a degree
Those who are very good with certain specific technical skillset like welding, plumbing, electrical work and so on can still earn a 5 digit salary! Wow! Isn’t that amazing?
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Apprenticeship programs at Atkins
If you would like to pursue your dream of solving complex technical problems or would like to bring about change in the society through scientific means whether or not you are an engineer then Atkins is the place for you.
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BT Group believes in apprenticeships
Andy Palmer, BT Group Head of Skills, talks about the importance of having apprenticeship training in order to hone the skills of employees
read moreNEWS
Building Skills Awareness in Rural India
Over 66% of India’s population is rural and of the 11 million Indians who lost jobs in 2018, over 80 percent of those losses occurred in rural India. What has led to this alarming crisis? A severe lack of formal vocational skills training in India’s hinterlands is...
Skilling Formal and Informal Economy Hand-in-Hand
NITI Aayog’s ‘Strategy for New India@75’ states India needs around 90 lakh new jobs annually to absorb the teeming mass of youth entering the workforce. A lot of focus is on creating jobs in the formal sector but a staggering 87% of Indian businesses firms,...
The Driving Forces Behind Skills Development in India
To successfully leverage our demographic dividend represented by a population where over 50% is under the age of 25, urgent remedial measures need to support government action. Despite a boost in skills funding and a myriad centrally sponsored skilling schemes, what...
Honda Takes on Youth Up-skilling
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India has inaugurated a Skill Development Centre at Excelus Learning Solutions, a centre affiliated to the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), in two Maharashtra towns– Dhule & Palgadh. The new skills training centre is at a...
Maruti Centre of Excellence at ITI-Becharaji
Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has opened yet another Centre of Excellence (CoE), capable of training over 7,000 trainees annually, this time at at ITI-Becharaji, Gujarat, at an investment of 4 crores. Also Read NSQF Skill Development at Government Degree College, Sopore...
ARTICLES
Breaking Development – SME Friendly Fresh Reforms in Apprenticeship Act to Drive Up Numbers
In an extremely gratifying development, giving apprenticeships a robust shot in the arm, the Central Apprenticeship Council (CAC), under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), has proposed new reforms through amendments to the...
The Latest in Policy and Regulation in Apprenticeships and Skills – Part II
In this concluding section of our two-part article, we continue our coverage of key recent developments from the skills space. Read our education focused article in Part I. Breaking Development - Fresh reforms to boost apprenticeships for SMEs have been...
The Latest in Policy and Regulation in Apprenticeships and Skills – Part I
With a raft of changes and proposals in education and skilling initiatives, is the skilling landscape in India truly alive and kicking? In a two-part article, we examine recent developments in policy and regulation in education, vocational training and skills...
Are Skills Training Centres of Excellence Up to the Job?
We continue from Part I - Are Industrial Training Institutes Up to The Job? where we examined the quality of technical and vocational education (TVET) provided in regular ITIs. In this article we focus on the second half of the research - Quality of VET in...
Honda Takes on Youth Up-skilling
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India has inaugurated a Skill Development Centre at Excelus Learning Solutions, a centre affiliated to the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), in two Maharashtra towns– Dhule & Palgadh. The new skills training centre is at a...
CASE STUDIES
Part III – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Welcome back to the continuation from Part I and Part II of our series on the above named ILO report.[i] This time we explore findings and good practices of social partners’ actions, namely employer and worker groups. Responses from India were provided by the All...
Deconstructing the Apprenticeship Stipend Primer 2019 – Part I
Skill building has taken centre stage what with India’s conundrum around jobs, employment and wages. Often overlooked is the significance of robust data on various skilling metrics or skill indicators without which all good intent is akin to a wild shot in the dark....
Leveraging the Power of Apprenticeships – A NETAP Event
India Apprenticeship Forum and NETAP Take Centre Stage The National Employability through Apprenticeship Program (NETAP) and the India Apprenticeship Forum (IAF) partnered to organise a felicitous interactive discussion on “Leveraging the Power of Apprenticeships for...
Do Employers See ROI in Apprenticeships?
‘For each dollar spent on apprenticeships, how many dollars are returned to the investor—the employer, the trainee, the government program, the union, or whoever paid for apprenticeships?’ ROI as a percentage seeks to answer the question, ‘Why should I hire...
How This Govt Program Is Changing Rural Odisha
This is the stuff dreams are made of. Poonam Kumari, daughter of a truck driver, went from being an unemployed high school graduate to earning Rs.20,000 a month with Café Coffee Day after a three-month coffee making training programme under the government’s Deen Dayal...
POLICY
What Job Creation Needs in India
With a new government at the helm, all eyes are turned towards making India the Skill Capital of the world and reaping benefits from the huge demographic dividend the country is blessed with. From Skill India to Digital India, a plethora of skilling initiatives were...
Impact of Trigger Points on Inter-Ministerial Skills Development Efforts
This article is in continuation of the 4-part series that deconstructs the ILO-UNESCO report on ‘Taking A Whole of Government Approach to Skills Development’.[i] Read Part I of the series here. In this section, we examine seven potential triggers that can ease or...
3X Increase in Apprenticeship Stipend
This is being suggested by NITI Aayog to ramp up the popularity of the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) both among candidates and reduce the financial burden on companies. The finance ministry has received a proposal to increase apprenticeship stipends...
Making Skills Acquisition Relevant
Acquiring & Imparting skills- requiring an overhaul in K-12 education, vocational and technical education and on-the-job training- is part of a three-component framework which the Skilling India: No Time to Lose- NCAER 2018[i] report proposes to boost the...
Tackling Informality in the Workforce with TVET
‘The high incidence of informality in all its forms has multiple adverse consequences for workers, enterprises, and societies and is, in particular, a major challenge for the realization of decent work for all and sustainable and inclusive development.’ Rafael Diez de...
RESEARCH
Impact of Trigger Points on Inter-Ministerial Skills Development Efforts
This article is in continuation of the 4-part series that deconstructs the ILO-UNESCO report on ‘Taking A Whole of Government Approach to Skills Development’.[i] Read Part I of the series here. In this section, we examine seven potential triggers that can ease or...
Part IV – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Read Parts I, II and III for a sequential appraisal of inter-related themes of this ILO report. A quick recap of Part I, II and III of ILO's report In this concluding section of our series on the above named ILO report[i], we examine the remaining two activity themes...
Part III – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
Welcome back to the continuation from Part I and Part II of our series on the above named ILO report.[i] This time we explore findings and good practices of social partners’ actions, namely employer and worker groups. Responses from India were provided by the All...
Part II – ILO Report – National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries
This is a continuation from Part I of our series on the above named ILO report.[i] Here, we examine the remaining five of the 10 Action Points of the G20 Initiative to Promote Quality Apprenticeship. 6. Raising the awareness of apprenticeships Most governments...
Deconstructing the Apprenticeship Stipend Primer 2019 – Part I
Skill building has taken centre stage what with India’s conundrum around jobs, employment and wages. Often overlooked is the significance of robust data on various skilling metrics or skill indicators without which all good intent is akin to a wild shot in the dark....
VIDEOS
How to get a dream career even without a degree
Those who are very good with certain specific technical skillset like welding, plumbing, electrical work and so on can still earn a 5 digit salary! Wow! Isn’t that amazing?
Apprenticeship programs at Atkins
If you would like to pursue your dream of solving complex technical problems or would like to bring about change in the society through scientific means whether or not you are an engineer then Atkins is the place for you.
BT Group believes in apprenticeships
Andy Palmer, BT Group Head of Skills, talks about the importance of having apprenticeship training in order to hone the skills of employees