August 28, 2011
Outmoded Vocational Schools Fail to Teach Skills for India's Booming Economy
Private corporations and foundations step in to offer much-needed training that the public sector can't provide
Nathan G for The Chronicle
Students train in the old machine shop of one of India's 9,000 Industrial Training Institutes and Centres. The institutes' 20th-century curricula and outdated equipment mean that although India's economy may create millions of skilled jobs next year, there may not be qualified workers to fill them.
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Nathan G for The Chronicle
Students train in the old machine shop of one of India's 9,000 Industrial Training Institutes and Centres. The institutes' 20th-century curricula and outdated equipment mean that although India's economy may create millions of skilled jobs next year, there may not be qualified workers to fill them.
Chennai, India
M. Vignesh is hard at work learning to build machine parts inside one of India's more than 9,000 vocational training institutes.
The room where he and a crew of other young men are busy resembles an auto mechanic's shop, with age-blackened machines. Students work with bare hands, standing on stone floors, with barely a computer or fire extinguisher in sight.
"I graduated from the 10th grade and decided to train here so I could start working and earning soon," says Mr. Vignesh.
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