India continues to face steep challenges in meeting its employment targets and lack of employability skills seems to be a key hurdle. According to the NSSO’s latest jobs survey, albeit controversial, 50 percent of India’s working-age population (15-64...
A quality apprenticeship ecosystem based on robust dialogue and public-private partnership can increase the employability odds for young Indians and help address acute talent shortages across industry sectors. In the latest American Staffing...
A pre-apprenticeship programme aids a smoother transition towards a full apprenticeship. It effectively builds stronger apprentices. Whilst an apprenticeship usually lasts for one to four years a pre-apprenticeship, akin to an internship, runs for weeks to a few...
Let’s begin with employability rates of the cream of the crop of India’s higher education – 1.5 million engineer graduates every year (52% employable); 3,60,000 MBA graduates from 4,000 B-schools (61% are unemployable). Why? Acute skill gaps and no work...
Is a USD 5 trillion economy yet another symbolic gesture akin to a target set in 2015 to skill 500 million by 2022? Unless the root issues such as education, skilling and job creation are not addressed we will continue to miss the boat in leveraging our demographic...
