Monthly Archives: July 2019
India’s 3E Challenge – Education, Employment, Employability – An Apprenticeship Looking Glass
With numerous accounts of a crisis in education, employability and employment- India’s 3E millstone around its neck, we strongly believe apprenticeships and...
Make Skills Training GST Free
In 2015 Narendra Modi gave a clarion call to make India the ‘Skills Capital’ of the world. The budget for skill development...
The Skill, Re-skill, Up-skill Mantra
Adding to the ballooning issue of the skills-jobs mismatch, India is also grappling with a NEET problem- youth ‘not in employment, education...
Integrating Vocational Training in Mainstream Education
The Indian education system with its prescriptive rote learning approach thwarts the imagination and creativity of learners. No wonder then that children...
NSDC Blends Education with Vocational Training
“I don’t consider vocational education different from education. In fact, it has to be well blended within our school systems like it...
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...
What Budget 2019 Should Do for Education and Skills Development
How can Indian education be reformed to boost employability skills and make youth agile to adapt to changing labour market forces? Will...
Revamping Indian Education
Whilst India has made rapid progress in secondary education enrolment- which has doubled in the last decade, can we rest on our...
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...
Skilling and Apprenticeships Should Take Centre Stage in Union Budget 2019
With all eyes and ears on the new Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2019, will the vicious cycle of a skills-jobs...
