Filling India’s Huge Need for Vocational Training

“In a simple classroom above a storefront on a bustling street, four young men crowded around the colorful innards of an open computer hard drive while their teacher explained in Hindi how it all worked,” Amy Yee wrote in The International Herald Tribune about a computer repair course offered at a private vocational training institute on the outskirts of New Delhi.

The institute is one of a “burgeoning number of private academies providing hands-on job training in India,” Ms. Yee wrote, “filling a gap between government vocational centers and four-year universities.”

More than half of India’s population of 1.2 billion is younger than 25, she wrote, and “the challenge is of harnessing this generation as a productive work force, or else facing the combustible prospect of hundreds of millions of unemployed youth in the future.” Read more »