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M., Nimmi P.; Mathew, Paul V.; Donald, William E. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore an employability enhancement initiative, the Additional Skills Acquisition Programme (ASAP) project in the state of Kerala, India, as a case for the inclusive development of employability in college and university students. Design/methodology/approach: ASAP is applied as a case study to examine the…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skill Development, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
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Agrawal, Tushar; Agrawal, Ankush – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Skill development has been a major policy agenda in several countries and there is a lot of emphasis on the promotion of vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates the labour market outcomes of the vocationally trained population in India using the data from a nationally representative survey on employment and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, Job Skills
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Smith, Erica; Kemmis, Ros Brennan; Comyn, Paul – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
This paper reports on aspects of a recent project carried out for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, which was designed to feed into the process of updating and expanding India's apprenticeship system. The apprenticeship system in India is extremely small for the country's population, even taking into account the high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Social Justice, Labor Market
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Sarma, Alaka; Mukhtar, Mazin – Childhood Education, 2017
Akshar Forum, an experimental livelihood school in the semi-rural village of Pamohi, Assam, in Northeast India, tests cutting-edge methods in education in the context of underserved communities and rural development programs. Started in 2015, the school links 42 children and their parents to the vast knowledge resources of the Internet to teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Rural Development, Geographic Regions
Russell, L. Roxanne – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Global organizations with personnel in India rank innovation as a primary workforce development objective to stay competitive in the global market (NASSCOM, [2007]). This analysis reviews relevant literature for evidence of cultural factors that stand in the way of innovative performance in Indian personnel and discusses implications for the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning
Spence, Nancy – Online Submission, 2006
Records show that school enrollment for girls is still lagging behind in some areas in the Asia and Pacific region, which poses challenge for the region to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015. And girls' labor in the Asia and Pacific region continues to constitute a major obstacle towards gender parity in education, another EFA target. Girls'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Opportunities, Child Labor