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Urban Clap Joins Skill India Mission
UrbanClap and the National Skill Development Corporation have teamed up to create micro-entrepreneurship opportunities for candidates under the banner of the government’s flagship scheme the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. Also read: World Youth Skills Day -...
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TikTok Launches Skills4All with NSDC
In a bid to take vocational training deeper into the Indian hinterland, short video platform provider TikTok and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) launched an in-app campaign ‘Skills4All’, on World Youth Skills Day 2019. Through this partnership, the...
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Team India Gears Up for WorldSkills International Competition 2019
The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has announced a 48-member team representing India at the biggest global platform of skills excellence, the WorldSkills International Competition 2019, to be held in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to the 27th of August...
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Urban Clap Joins Skill India Mission
UrbanClap and the National Skill Development Corporation have teamed up to create micro-entrepreneurship opportunities for candidates under the banner of the government’s flagship scheme the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. Also read: World Youth Skills Day -...
read more TikTok Launches Skills4All with NSDC
In a bid to take vocational training deeper into the Indian hinterland, short video platform provider TikTok and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) launched an in-app campaign ‘Skills4All’, on World Youth Skills Day 2019. Through this partnership, the...
read more Team India Gears Up for WorldSkills International Competition 2019
The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has announced a 48-member team representing India at the biggest global platform of skills excellence, the WorldSkills International Competition 2019, to be held in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to the 27th of August...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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Urban Clap Joins Skill India Mission
UrbanClap and the National Skill Development Corporation have teamed up to create micro-entrepreneurship opportunities for candidates under the banner of the government’s flagship scheme the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. Also read: World Youth Skills Day -...
TikTok Launches Skills4All with NSDC
In a bid to take vocational training deeper into the Indian hinterland, short video platform provider TikTok and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) launched an in-app campaign ‘Skills4All’, on World Youth Skills Day 2019. Through this partnership, the...
Team India Gears Up for WorldSkills International Competition 2019
The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has announced a 48-member team representing India at the biggest global platform of skills excellence, the WorldSkills International Competition 2019, to be held in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to the 27th of August...
Computer Skills Training for School and Higher Education Drop-outs
The public-private partnership has seen the establishment of a training centre for computer hardware training at the Swami Vivekananda Rural Community College (SVRCC) in Puducherry with support from Dell Technologies. The 'Dell Kaushak Kendra' will impart vocational...
Focus on Apprenticeship as Skill India Reaches 4th Anniversary on World Youth Skills Day
World Youth Skills Day, celebrated the world over on July 15th, saw the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) completing four years of the Skill India Mission. A host of skills training MoUs and initiatives were signed at an exclusive event in the...
ARTICLES
Urban Clap Joins Skill India Mission
UrbanClap and the National Skill Development Corporation have teamed up to create micro-entrepreneurship opportunities for candidates under the banner of the government’s flagship scheme the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. Also read: World Youth Skills Day -...
TikTok Launches Skills4All with NSDC
In a bid to take vocational training deeper into the Indian hinterland, short video platform provider TikTok and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) launched an in-app campaign ‘Skills4All’, on World Youth Skills Day 2019. Through this partnership, the...
Team India Gears Up for WorldSkills International Competition 2019
The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has announced a 48-member team representing India at the biggest global platform of skills excellence, the WorldSkills International Competition 2019, to be held in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to the 27th of August...
Computer Skills Training for School and Higher Education Drop-outs
The public-private partnership has seen the establishment of a training centre for computer hardware training at the Swami Vivekananda Rural Community College (SVRCC) in Puducherry with support from Dell Technologies. The 'Dell Kaushak Kendra' will impart vocational...
Focus on Apprenticeship as Skill India Reaches 4th Anniversary on World Youth Skills Day
World Youth Skills Day, celebrated the world over on July 15th, saw the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) completing four years of the Skill India Mission. A host of skills training MoUs and initiatives were signed at an exclusive event in the...
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