India's Skill Challenge

Reforming Vocational Education and Training to Harness the Demographic Dividend
Herausgeber: Mehrotra, Santosh

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is a first thorough and comprehensive study on the policy and strategy of skill development that synthesizes significant recent advances in this area and provides a forward looking agenda for action. It identifies key issues that need to be addressed while making policies and presents an innovative approach which enhances the employability of workers as well as the sustainability of their livelihoods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780199452774
• ISBN-10: 0199452776
• Artikelnr.: 47864724

Autorenporträt

Santosh Mehrotra is is Professor of Economics, Centre for Labour and Informal Sector Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Previously, he was Director-General at the National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (NILERD, earlier called Institute of Applied Manpower Research), Planning Commission of India.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Preface
* 1: Is India's TVET system responding to the challenge of rapid
economic growth?
* 2: The Indian Vocational Education and Training system : an Overview
* 3: Comparing Public and Private Vocational Training Providers
* 4: Reforming Apprenticeship Training
* 5: The Vocational Training System : A Learners' Perspective
* 6: The Vocational Training System : An Employers' Perspective
* 7: Comparison of apprenticeship training for the crafts with those
for technicians/ graduates
* 8: The Skill Development System in India - A Reform Agenda
* Bibliography
* About the Editor and Contributors