Schools

India has more than 211 million students studying in schools of different boards across varying qualities of education. Of this, more than 70 per cent of the students drop out even before they reach Class 10. Even though the Government of India has made education compulsory until Class 8, the dropout rate goes unabated. According to the Joint Review Mission (JRM) report, nearly 2.7 million children drop out of school every year. The same would result in approximately 500 million people with less than five years of schooling by 2016.

As a fall out of this, the students who drop out of these schools remain unemployed or enter into the informal stream of employment, adding to the nation’s unemployed or underemployed pool. The reasons are many, ranging from inadequate education infrastructure, outdated courses, poor faculty support resources, mismatch with industry requirements and more. .

Unit Code	Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)
Class 9–10	52.26
Class 11–12	28.54

Source: Selected Educational statistics (Abstract) 2005-06, MHRD, Govt. of India

As a fall out of this, the students who drop out of these schools remain unemployed or enter into the informal stream of employment, adding to the nation’s unemployed or underemployed pool. The reasons are many, ranging from poor quality of education, irrelevant courses, poor faculty, mismatch with industry requirements and more.

IndiaSkills provides an opportunity to schools by offering courses like Retail, Spoken English, Work place Skills and so on. IndiaSkills qualifications prepare students for the future and enable them to proactively learn skills which will build the foundation for their future career. This would also give them an idea about various industries and their career interests.

Modes of Engagement

1. Schools can impart skill education to the students through one of our learning centers
2. Offer skill training & certification managed by IndiaSkills as a part of the course curriculum.
3. Large progressive institutions can own up an IndiaSkills training center and impart skill education of various interests to the students.