Back to school: To prepare workforce of the future, India must radically revise its education system

Back to school: To prepare workforce of the future, India must radically revise its education system

Schoolchildren assemble a robot at the launch of an Innovation Hub at Sir M Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bangalore. | AFP India will soon have the youngest and largest workforce in the world, adding roughly 12 million people to the 15-29 age group annually. The flip side is that only 2.3% of the country’s workforce is formally skilled . Automation is predicted to reduce jobs relying on physical labour across all sectors, thereby increasing the demand for higher cognitive skills such as critical thinking, creativity, communication, decisionmaking and collaboration. It is expected that by 2030, nearly 9% […]

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