Indian TVET: Between Informality and Ambitions
CERE Expert Seminar Series 2025 ‘TVET Systems in BRICS Countries: Landscape and Contexts’
Third CERE Seminar
Indian TVET: Between Informality and Ambitions
Drawing on new evidence and policy-led reforms, this talk explores the emerging landscape of the TVET ecosystem in India, with a specific focus on mapping inequalities in access, concerns in teaching-learning, low demand for vocational education, frail connection with industry, skill mismatch, and, more importantly, the broken link between TVET systems and labour market. This talk also examines why a government financed and managed TVET system fails in India, and whether the industry and corporates can deliver well, giving us a workforce equipped with smart skills for the future of work. Do they succeed in imparting sector-specific skills, often considered a catalyst in boosting youth employment, more clearly for women, and improving the overall efficacy of vocational training? We situate the policy and evidence of the Indian TVET sector within the context of a rapidly changing labour market, and growing skills needs amid global economic uncertainties, AI-driven technological changes, demographic shifts, and climate change.
Speakers:
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 GMT
Format: Online
We warmly invite you to be part of this conversation.
Let’s build a new space for collaborative, grounded, and comparative thinking in education.
Indian TVET: Between Informality and Ambitions
Drawing on new evidence and policy-led reforms, this talk explores the emerging landscape of the TVET ecosystem in India, with a specific focus on mapping inequalities in access, concerns in teaching-learning, low demand for vocational education, frail connection with industry, skill mismatch, and, more importantly, the broken link between TVET systems and labour market. This talk also examines why a government financed and managed TVET system fails in India, and whether the industry and corporates can deliver well, giving us a workforce equipped with smart skills for the future of work. Do they succeed in imparting sector-specific skills, often considered a catalyst in boosting youth employment, more clearly for women, and improving the overall efficacy of vocational training? We situate the policy and evidence of the Indian TVET sector within the context of a rapidly changing labour market, and growing skills needs amid global economic uncertainties, AI-driven technological changes, demographic shifts, and climate change.
Speakers:
- Santosh Mehrotra, Visiting Professor, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK
- Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, Assistant Professor of Economics, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 GMT
Format: Online
We warmly invite you to be part of this conversation.
Let’s build a new space for collaborative, grounded, and comparative thinking in education.
20 November 2025
