India and Australia will work in tandem to deliver vocational training and subsequent employment opportunities in different sectors. Sanchayan Bhattacharjee reports
During his recent trip Down Under, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to hard sell India as a manufacturing and manpower hub. The idea is to use India’s significantly larger human capital to meet the shortage of the same in Australia. For this objective to achieve fruition, it is necessary that Indians are trained and certified to seek employment in both countries. Keeping this in mind, the National Skill Development Corporation, India (NSDC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) to cooperate with each other in technical and vocational education and training.
The training programmes will focus on specific sectors in which Australia faces shortage of manpower including Retail, Healthcare, IT, Telecom and Automotive sector and work in collaboration with Australian Skills Councils in order to impart relevant skills. “The primary objective of this alliance is to build transnational standards of training, which is required to fulfill a job role in two or more countries,” says Dilip Chenoy, CEO, NSDC. According to Chenoy, a mapping of Australian standards that are accepted even in the Middle East, with respect to Indian standards has begun and will be completed early next year. “Soon trainees will be trained on transnational standards in India and have job opportunities in Australia,” he adds.
In addition to the training programmes, NSDC will also work with Australian Immigration Department to facilitate smooth transition of skilled workers from India to Australia and vice-versa. TDA for its part will provide curriculum support for targeted vocational training in the sectors as agreed by both organisations. “There will be reciprocal staff exchange and study tours to develop professional capability. TDA will be sharing advanced teacher training programmes for technical trainers and teachers too,” says Chenoy.
According to NSDC officials, this collaboration is in line with the thought process of the current Government and is a result of continuous talks with Australian government and education officials since 2010. “We will also fund Heraud Training, a member organisation of TDA, to set up an Indian institute and train Indians on transnational standards and help get placed in Australia,” says Rajiv Mathur, head, Standards and Quality Assessment, NSDC.
Ultimately, this collaboration looks to skill Indian for job profiles in different sectors in such a way that their certification validates them to seek work in countries like Australia where there is a shortage of human resource. It is a one among many steps which are needed in order to make productive use of India’s demographic dividend.
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