CBSE may introduce skill courses at school level
Updated: Apr 11, 2014 05:10:02pm
New Delhi, Apr 11 (KNN) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to offer vocational courses at school level in areas like real estate, construction, retail and automobiles.
This was indicated by CBSE Chairman, Vineet Joshi at a workshop organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here.
According to an official notification, he indicated that the CBSE would shortly widen and diversify its vocational courses in the field of real estate, construction, retail, automobile and host of other advance areas to serve these growing economic activities.
“In due course of time many more other vocational courses would also be introduced for students seeking vocational training in all CBSE affiliated schools across the country, he added.
Inaugurating the International Conference on Skilling in Schools, Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari said that the government should incorporate skilling and vocational training with its top social and economic national priorities to fill in the youth with skills and faculties that can empower them with employable abilities with emerging and evolving aspirations and expectations of industry and other similar stake holders.
He also recommended that an index need to be evolved to gauge the performance of those learning and imparting skills and vocational education in difference schools so that their performances is measured as per suggested index parameters to take skills and vocational education to a logical conclusion.
“…until skilling and vocational education were treated with national priority, the on-going schemes to promote and diversify the uses of skills and vocational education in various schools would yield little results,” he said.
The Vice President sought collective efforts from government and industry for wider spread and launch of vocational education throughout India so that India is able to prepare 500 million of its youth to be employable as per emerging requirement in all segment of Indian economy in next 10-12 years.
India would have to prepare 15 million youth per annum with skills that are required to maintain an annual growth rate of 8 per cent which is a very big challenge to maintain the demand and supply, he said.
He is of the opinion that in the changing paradigm of emerging global order, we need an education system in which net enrolment in vocational institutions rise manifold from present level of 3.5 million.
In his welcome address, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sharad Jaipuria said that the emerging world needed integration of skills and vocational education with main stream academics so that the educated youth is geared up and motivated to meet the challenges and opportunities of current times. He also sought incentivisation of vocational courses to spur up its growth and diversification. (KNN/ES)
This was indicated by CBSE Chairman, Vineet Joshi at a workshop organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here.
According to an official notification, he indicated that the CBSE would shortly widen and diversify its vocational courses in the field of real estate, construction, retail, automobile and host of other advance areas to serve these growing economic activities.
“In due course of time many more other vocational courses would also be introduced for students seeking vocational training in all CBSE affiliated schools across the country, he added.
Inaugurating the International Conference on Skilling in Schools, Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari said that the government should incorporate skilling and vocational training with its top social and economic national priorities to fill in the youth with skills and faculties that can empower them with employable abilities with emerging and evolving aspirations and expectations of industry and other similar stake holders.
He also recommended that an index need to be evolved to gauge the performance of those learning and imparting skills and vocational education in difference schools so that their performances is measured as per suggested index parameters to take skills and vocational education to a logical conclusion.
“…until skilling and vocational education were treated with national priority, the on-going schemes to promote and diversify the uses of skills and vocational education in various schools would yield little results,” he said.
The Vice President sought collective efforts from government and industry for wider spread and launch of vocational education throughout India so that India is able to prepare 500 million of its youth to be employable as per emerging requirement in all segment of Indian economy in next 10-12 years.
India would have to prepare 15 million youth per annum with skills that are required to maintain an annual growth rate of 8 per cent which is a very big challenge to maintain the demand and supply, he said.
He is of the opinion that in the changing paradigm of emerging global order, we need an education system in which net enrolment in vocational institutions rise manifold from present level of 3.5 million.
In his welcome address, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sharad Jaipuria said that the emerging world needed integration of skills and vocational education with main stream academics so that the educated youth is geared up and motivated to meet the challenges and opportunities of current times. He also sought incentivisation of vocational courses to spur up its growth and diversification. (KNN/ES)
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