Skills education
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Anupam Sinha Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readDespite being world’s youngest country in terms of demographic dividend, India has only 2% of the workforce skilled compared with 96% in South Korea, 45% in China, 50-55% in USA & 74% in Germany. All these years, we focussed on building Higher Education and very little did we think of enhancing the Employability Quotient (EQ) ...
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Reetika Bose Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readIt feels as if new and diverse technologies are continually arising and in some cases disappearing. In some parts of the world, new technology brings excitement and an easier way of life. In others, new technologies might leave out entire communities. Rural and suburban areas of developing countries which often have minimal infrastructure and resources ...
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Uttara.J. Malhotra Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readWhen we refer to Skill Education, we have to look at it from two perspectives-one where children and youngsters have been exposed to formal education and school and college level, yet do not possess the required skills to be employable and; second those who have never been exposed to any kind of formal education and ...
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Uttara.J. Malhotra Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readThe 5th BRICS meeting of education ministers from India, Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, unanimously agreed upon ‘the need of the hour is to strengthen cooperation in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)’. Therefore, these nations were prepared to bring to the table shared ideas and experiences in ...