- Title
- How can the expansion of the apprenticeship system in India create conditions for greater equity and social justice?
- Creator
- Smith, Erica; Kemmis, Ros Brennan; Comyn, Paul
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/73540
- Identifier
- vital:7078
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-1394
- Abstract
- 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 proportion of jobs that are in the informal economy, and is subject to very rigid regulation. Expansion of the system has been seen as vital in order to improve the supply of skills to the rapidly expanding economy, and also to address issues of disparity in labour market participation and equity for certain groups in Indian society. The paper firstly explains how findings about apprenticeship systems from ten other countries, together with analysis of the Indian situation, were used to present options for consideration by the Indian government. It then analyses these options for their social justice and equity implications.
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 54, no. 3 (2014), p.
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Journal of Adult Learning
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Apprenticeship; Developing nation; Equity; Access; Training; 1301 Education Systems; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
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