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Stigma attached to vocational education should go
A change in mindset towards vocational education is the need of the hour. There is a cultural obstacle that needs to be addressed if India is to meet the requirement of a skilled workforce of 500 million persons by 2022 says Louay Constant, policy researcher at RAND Corporation and Professor, RAND Pardee Graduate School. He is in the city and is meeting government officials as well as private stak
​Hyderabad: A change in mindset towards vocational education is the need of the hour. There is a cultural obstacle that needs to be addressed if India is to meet the requirement of a skilled workforce of 500 million persons by 2022 says Louay Constant, policy researcher at RAND Corporation and Professor, RAND Pardee Graduate School. He is in the city and is meeting government officials as well as private stake holders including NGOs in the sector.
The notion that a degree is the only passport to success is not true. The stigma attached to vocational education should go. “Education and training needs to be aligned with the needs of the private sector and traditional vocational education system needs to be brought into the fold to provide high quality education,” said Louay.
The notion that a degree is the only passport to success is not true says Louay Constant, an expert in the sphere of vocational education
In a tour to South India, Louay met with officials of Telangana Academy for Skill Development & Knowledge, Andhra Pradesh Department of Technical Education and Department of Collegiate Education. He said that like in several other countries, in India too there is a mismatch between the national skills, demand and supply.
Louay worked on a number of projects that have examined the link between national skills demand and supply, K-12 education reform, postsecondary education and training initiatives, and labor markets.
His recent project was in Kurdistan region of Iraq developing-Iraq developing strategies to increase access and improve quality of general and vocational education.
When asked if RAND Corporation would be working in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the near future in the area of vocational education, he said that the possibilities are immense and is looking forward to work as there is a lot of scope in India with the Government of India is keen on promoting skill development.
