India: Preparation for the World of Work: Education System and School to Work Transition

School to work transition and the preparation for the world of work are highly important aspects in India’s education and training policy (King 2012). India has a huge potential which does not only manifest itself in the growing population and the huge number of youths who stream into the education …

While India has become a fairly significant manufacturing hub due to its industryfriendly policies, cost competitiveness and vast pool of human resources, some of the key challenges remain unaddressed. As a consequence, the full potential remains unrealised which manifests as a structural problem in…

In this work – we try to understand the social desirability of vocational education and training (henceforth VET) in India. In general, it is observed that choice of VET often is a ‘second choice’ and also there is a global decline in the participation in VET. India always has a very low participati…

This chapter tries to capture the changing profile of Indian higher education seekers and the system per se. It is argued that Higher Education (HE) in India needs to make a leap from education for the sake of education to education for better livelihood to education for better living to provide for…