Why is Apprenticeship not a widespread phenomenon in India? The primary Apprenticeship model has had limited success due to a rigid 52-year-old law. With periodic revisions and amendments as recent as Sept 2019, the law has been updated with new schemes and...
Before we dive into the scope of how apprenticeships can benefit organizations, let us understand the correct meaning of the term. Vocabulary.com defines “Apprenticeship as a kind of job training that involves following and studying a master of the trade on the...
Taking the Government’s flagship project Make in India one step ahead the Apprenticeship Rules 2019 has been modified by the Government of India. The new rule is focused to increase the skilled manpower in the country and increase the remuneration for the apprentices....
All good intentions to make India the ‘Skills Capital of the World’ and to reap the benefits of skills-based economic development will fall flat if almost half of its population is not fully engaged in the workforce. The saying ‘the hand that rocks the cradle’ has...
“In many organisations, the habitual approach to workforce planning is just a short-term budget and headcount exercise. Attempting to be this granular and precise is not useful when looking longer term, especially when the environment is uncertain.” Julia...
There is a lot of noise around the skills-jobs predicament that severely impedes India’s economic prosperity ambitions. Rightly so, given that an estimated 5 million youth are out of work at any given point of time and of the 12-15 million youth approximated to enter...
