Your neighborhood carpenter, plumber, car mechanic and other technicians won’t look the same ordinary fellows any more in coming years. They will sound more like engineers, proficient problem solvers and businesslike educated guys. Chances are, you will confront a Ph D carpenter, who will change your worldview completely about skilled human capital. On the outskirts of Jaipur in the Mahindra …
Furthering Prime Minister Modi’s bilateral visit to Japan, and seeking to deepen ties between the two friend countries, under a memorandum of cooperation signed between India and Japan, MSDE had started a Technical Training Programme (TITP) in Japan under which interns from India do their internships in Japan and thereby replicate Japan-like efficiency in our country, once they come back. …
Skill development—You name it—AISECT has all. All India Society for Electronics & Computer Technology or now famously known as AISECT set up by engineer turned computer literacy evangelist, Santosh Kumar Choubey in mid 1980s in Bhopal, has come a long way to represent a new paradigm in skills education in India. The group, which has already three skills universities under …
Twenty eight member Indian contingent for the WorldSkills International competition being held in Abu Dhabi from October 14 to 19, 2017 was given a warm send-off in New Delhi on October 11. The union skills minister Dharmendra Pradhan while wishing them the very best also announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for gold medal winners, Rs 8 lakh …
July 15 marked the World Skills Day and optics and big events unlike the past two years was missing this time. In a way it was good because in din pomp and show, the reality becomes a victim. There has been a peculiar manner in which country’s central ministers behave. They invoke PM Modi for everything and perhaps assure themselves …
By Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, Australia THE DEMAND FOR SKILLS … I mention this because of course the history of building in India is rich, but the demand for such skills today is very much perhaps at the top of India’s immediate capabilities and demands. Research by KPMG India found that the number of people working in …
