India Higher Education Report 2020 (eBook, PDF)

Employment and Employability of Higher Education Graduates in India
Redaktion: Varghese, N. V.; Khare, Mona

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

India Higher Education Report 2020 critically analyzes the role played by the state, industries, and higher education institutions in the employment and employability of educated youth in India. The book discusses a wide range of topics such as employability skill gaps of higher education graduates; curriculum and skills training systems; formal and informal modes of skill formation; crisis of jobless growth in India; migration, education and employment; dimensions of gender, caste and education; general, technical and professional education; vocationalization; qualifications framework and skills certifications; curriculum and pedagogy in higher education for skill development; industry-academia linkages; entrepreneurship education and executive education; and sustainable employment.

The book focuses on theoretical insights, empirical evidences and recent data on key issues and challenges of higher education graduate employment in a knowledge economy driven by the unprecedented expansion of higher education and increasing digitization. It offers successful cases of institutional responses, examples of policy and practices as also perspectives of different stakeholders such as employers, employees, teachers and students to present trends in the changing landscape of higher education and future demands of the job market for the youth workforce across sectors, subject disciplines and gender.

This volume will be an important resource for scholars, teachers and researchers of higher education, public policy, political economy, political science, labour studies, economics, education, sociology in general as well as for policymakers, professional organizations and associations, civil society organizations, and government bodies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000434729
• Artikelnr.: 62441197

Autorenporträt

N.V. Varghese is Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and the founding director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education at NIEPA, New Delhi, India. Mona Khare is Professor and Head, Department of Educational Finance, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. She is associated with various government bodies and international education forums in research, consultancy and advisory activities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Employment and employability of higher education graduates: an overview
Part I: Economic Growth and Employment of the Educated 2. The crisis of
jobless growth in India 3. On the persistence of informal work and
self-employment in India 4. Migration, education and employment in India 5.
Declining labour force participation in India: does education and training
help? 6. Trends in employment and unemployment in India: dimensions of
gender, caste and education Part II: Graduate Employability and Skills
Mismatch 7. Skills mismatch of higher education graduates in India: factors
determining employability quotient 8. General, technical and professional
education: employability skill gaps 9. Education, skills mismatch and wage
differentials Part III: Education and Skill Formation 10. India's national
skills qualification framework and employment: the promise and the reality
11. Curriculum and pedagogy in higher education for skill development 12.
Skilling India: vocational orientation to higher education 13. Skill
universities in India 14. Informal modes of skill formation Part IV:
Education-Industry Relationship 15. Industry-academia linkages in India's
technical education sector 16. Refuelling entrepreneurship education in
India: a case study 17. Executive education and career advancement:
sustainable employment