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
76.315789473684274.0740740740741
31.355932203389845.7777777777778
45.8646616541353100
45.762711864406836
00
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/