NEWS
The Match Between Education and Employability
What prompted TN Hari, the HR Head of Bigbasket, to make vocational education the focus of his newest book Cutting the Gordian Knot? What place do vocational skills hold in bridging the gap between available jobs and degree holders? Do skills trump degrees, and if so...
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Vocational Skills Training to Women from Amazon Cares
Amazon Cares, the CSR initiative of Amazon India, is especially focused on empowering women by creating growth and job opportunities through vocational skills training, micro-entrepreneurship awareness training, digital literacy, and English language training. These...
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Rubber Sector to Skill One Million
Rubber Skill Development Council (RSDC), the skill council for the rubber sector through its project 'Saamrath' aims to empower a million workers. Part of the plans is to skill and up-skill 10 lakh manpower in the rubber sector by 2020 under the Recognition of Prior...
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Can India’s Apprenticeship Strategy Lead to better Employment numbers?
Jobs have, understandably, become a highly debated topic in recent times. While all eyes scrutinise employment numbers, and opinions are aplenty, we bring the focus back to why apprenticeships should get the spotlight. With multiple sectors facing huge skills...
read more
Engaging Employers in Youth Employment – An Apprenticeship Perspective
Are we letting our youth down? It appears so. And the employer-youth disconnect is a key reason why. 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 sheen...
read more The Match Between Education and Employability
What prompted TN Hari, the HR Head of Bigbasket, to make vocational education the focus of his newest book Cutting the Gordian Knot? What place do vocational skills hold in bridging the gap between available jobs and degree holders? Do skills trump degrees, and if so...
read morecase 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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
The Match Between Education and Employability
What prompted TN Hari, the HR Head of Bigbasket, to make vocational education the focus of his newest book Cutting the Gordian Knot? What place do vocational skills hold in bridging the gap between available jobs and degree holders? Do skills trump degrees, and if so...
Vocational Skills Training to Women from Amazon Cares
Amazon Cares, the CSR initiative of Amazon India, is especially focused on empowering women by creating growth and job opportunities through vocational skills training, micro-entrepreneurship awareness training, digital literacy, and English language training. These...
Rubber Sector to Skill One Million
Rubber Skill Development Council (RSDC), the skill council for the rubber sector through its project 'Saamrath' aims to empower a million workers. Part of the plans is to skill and up-skill 10 lakh manpower in the rubber sector by 2020 under the Recognition of Prior...
IOCL Skilling Project Trains 400
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) have certified nearly 400 candidates under a Skill India training program in sectors such as healthcare, apparel, telecom and domestic worker category. This is among a host...
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...
ARTICLES
Can India’s Apprenticeship Strategy Lead to better Employment numbers?
Jobs have, understandably, become a highly debated topic in recent times. While all eyes scrutinise employment numbers, and opinions are aplenty, we bring the focus back to why apprenticeships should get the spotlight. With multiple sectors facing huge skills...
Engaging Employers in Youth Employment – An Apprenticeship Perspective
Are we letting our youth down? It appears so. And the employer-youth disconnect is a key reason why. 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 sheen...
The Match Between Education and Employability
What prompted TN Hari, the HR Head of Bigbasket, to make vocational education the focus of his newest book Cutting the Gordian Knot? What place do vocational skills hold in bridging the gap between available jobs and degree holders? Do skills trump degrees, and if so...
Apprenticeships 2.0 – A National Imperative
The issue of low skills and joblessness has snowballed into gargantuan proportions. With a new government at the helm, what can we look forward to in the next five years for apprenticeships and vocational skills development? The Facts 58.3% of unemployed graduates and...
How Apprenticeships Deliver Local Economic Growth
SMEs are the ‘local’ experts- with in-depth knowledge of local sectors, skill gaps and employment challenges. They hold enormous opportunities for skills-based employment generation, especially in the area of apprenticeships. India is home to some 76 million small...
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
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...
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...
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