STUDENTS’ ASPIRATION TOWARDSSKILL DEVELOPMENT

Kalinga Keshari SamalNIRD & PR, Hyderabad

Population as a Resource• As on 2016- 1,322,874,128 (1.32 billion)

• Projected to be number 1 by 2030

• 17.85% of world population

• More than 50% under age of 25

• Projected Median age by 2020 is 29 yearsSource: www.indiaonlinepages.com

Emergence of skill development

• To meet global requirement of human resource

• To meet employment opportunity its large population for a better living

Largest skill provider in the countryMission is to train 40lakh people by 2022

Objective of the study

• To investigate student awareness, interests & aspirations around general education and vocational education

• To find the gap between industry requirements and student aspiration

• Intervening suggestion to squeeze this gap

Issues of the study• General aspirations• Aspirations of students post completion of school• Professions and sectors students aspire to work in• Factors that influence these choices• Skills that students aspire to develop• Student interest in vocational education/skill

development program• Perception issues associated with vocational

education/skill development program• Factors that influence these opinions

Methodology• Primary data collection was done by questionnaire, interview

and observation

• Data analysis done by using SPSS and EXCEL

• Data has been represented through bar charts, pie charts, histogram, table etc.

Survey background & sample profile

Total of 2000 students from class-9 to undergraduate courses

Districts covered• Khurda (Bhubaneswar)• Cuttack• Bhadrak• Jajpur

Male63%

Female37%

Respondent Categorizationon "Gender"

Male Female

SC17%

ST7%

OBC44%

GENERAL31%

Respondent Categorizationon "Caste"

12th Appeared65%

12th Not Appeared36%

Respondent Categorizationon "Education"

Government72%

Private28%

Respondent Categorizationon "Type of School"

Yes20%

No73%

Don’t Know8%

Wish to Continue Father's Profession

• Changing aspirations of students• Fraying of caste based

occupations• Increasing technological

intensity of occupations• Limiting inter-generational

knowledge

Yes69%

No32%

Wish To Study Full TimeOf Total Respondent

M a l e

F e m a l e

68.30%

68.90%

31.70%

31.10%

Wish To Study Full TimeGender Wise

Yes No

S C

S T

O B C

G E N E R A L

64.70%

66.70%

68.20%

71.40%

35.30%

33.30%

31.80%

28.60%

Wish to study full timeCaste wise

Yes No

More than 75%

60% - 75%

Less than 60%

57%

70%

80%

43%

30%

20%

Mark Percentage In Last ExamVs.

Interest In Full Time CourseInterested Not Interested

Getti n g M arr ied

A cad em ic P erf o rm an ce

S h o rtag e o f m o n ey

A d v ice f ro m teach ers / C areer O ffi ce

O w n I n teres t

P aren ts & F am ily Exp ectatio n

13%

25%

8%

17%

46%

52%

14%

20%

12%

34%

25%

26%

10%

16%

14%

32%

12%

6%

34%

23%

33%

9%

10%

11%

28%

16%

33%

8%

7%

6%

Reasons For Their InterestIn Post School Education

Strongly Agree Agree Slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly Don’t Know

Medi a

Sc hool C a r eer Advi sor

Fr i ends

Tea cher s

Pa r ents/Gua r di a ns/Fa mi l y E l der s

30%

36%

51%

60%

81%

70%

40%

49%

40%

19%

Source Of InformationYes No

In Which Sectors Students Displayed Interest?Interested Sector % of Total

Aspirant% of Total Male % of Total

Female

Engineering/Govt. Jobs 19.5 18.3 21.6Banking/Financial 11 10.3 12.2Education 16 11.1 24.3Automobiles/Transportation 3 4 1.4National Security 6.5 8.7 2.7Entrepreneurship 7.5 10.3 2.7Hospitality/Health Care Services 13 8.7 20.3IT Services 10 10.3 9.5Agriculture 1.5 2.4 -------Construction/Plumbing 3.5 5.6 -------Retail Services 4 4.8 2.7Manufacturing 3 3.2 2.7Others 1.5 2.4 -------

Ma nufac tur i ng

R eta i l Ser vi c es

C onstr uction/Plum bi ng

Ag r i c ul tur e

IT Ser vi ces

Hospi ta l i ty/Hea l th C a r e Ser vi ces

Entr epr enuer shi p

Na tiona l Secur i ty

Autom obi l es/Tr a nspor tation

Educ a tion

B a nki ng /Fi na nc i a l

Eng i neer i ng Ser vi c es/Govt. Jobs

O ther s

54.237288135593264

100100

52.020202020202

3079.2307692307692

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31.355932203389845.7777777777778

45.8646616541353100

45.762711864406836

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47.979797979798

7020.7692307692308

23.684210526315825.9259259259259

68.644067796610254.2222222222222

54.13533834586470

Interested SectorMale : FEMALE

Male Female

What skills do students aspire to possess?

Comput er Knowledg e

Eng lish Spea king Abil it y

Pla cement L ink/Employer Net work

I nt er view Ski l l s

Communica ti on & Persona li t y D evelopment

On t he Job T ra ining

Access t o St udy Loa n

Pa rt T ime Opti on

61%

53%

38%

14%

36%

19%

12%

16%

29%

32%

32%

45%

31%

24%

11%

14%

2.00%

1.50%

18.50%

17.00%

17.50%

24.00%

19.50%

13.00%

3%

7%

6%

12%

10%

16%

17%

34%

5.50%

6.50%

6.50%

11.50%

6.00%

17.50%

41.50%

24.00%

Strongly Agree Agree Slightly Disagree Slightly Disagree Strongly Don’t know

Yes44%

No43%

Don’t Know13%

Yes No Don’t Know

Wish to peruse vocational education/skill development program

Reasons for not wanting to do vocational/skill program Percentage

Want to continue further education 84%

Don’t know about a good vocational education/Skill development program 36%

Discouragement from family for these type of courses 37%

You don’t know anyone attending Vocational education/Skill development program 35%

You think you can’t afford to these type of courses 24%

Vocational education/Skill development programs are not prestigious 29%

48.7

48.2

17.3

16.4

5.8

5.3

4.2

3.5

3 4

13 16

10 11

Projected New Job Created by 2022 (million) Interested Respondent (%)Series3

Source: NSDC report

Chart source: Journal of CASI

• Creating awareness for high growth sector

• Understand the various factors that influence a student’s career decision

• Providing high quality vocational/skilling program

Policy implications

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Megha Aggarwal, Devesh Kapur, Namrata Tognatta, and CASI• Perspectives on Skill Development in Maharashtra: Matching aspirations to opportunities, Deloitte Knowledge paper for SkillCon India March 2013• Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey Report (2011-12)• Education for All Global Monitoring, UNESCO Report 2012• Knowledge paper on skill development in India: Learner first (September 2012), FICCI• http://skillindia.gov.in/• http://www.nsdcindia.org/• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_India• http://www.ilfsets.com/• www.nsda.gov.in/• www.npsd.gov.in/• http://ddugky.gov.in/• http://www.pmkvyofficial.org/• http://labour.nic.in/• http://msde.gov.in/• http://www.enotes.com/research-starters/skills-development-programs• https://ncvtmis.gov.in/• https://www.sdi.gov.in/• http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/welcome.html• http://mospi.nic.in/