The geopolitics and meanings of India's massive skills development ambitions
- 作者：Kenneth King ; kenneth.king@ed.ac.uk
- 关键词：Skills development ; Planning Commission ; Skills targets ; Public private partnership ; National Skills Development Policy ; Informal sector ; Skills via casual labour
- 刊名：International Journal of Educational Development
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：45_07380593
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：September, 2012
- 卷：32
- 期：5
- 页码：665-673
- 文件大小：297 K
摘要
This paper interrogates the drivers and meanings behind the dramatic rise of technical and vocational education and training in the policy and political agenda of India. What are the assumptions about the existing traditions and character of India's culture or cultures of skills development? Is the massive planned expansion of skilled people in India simply more of the same, or is there a new paradigm involved? How central will be the role of the private sector and of public private partnerships in the new skills training environment? And how inevitable was it that India should embrace a national vocational qualification framework?