KASE

Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence

The Government of Kerala has set up Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence (KASE) with the objective of skilling the young workforce of Kerala and elevating their skills to global standards for employment in India and abroad.

KASE promotes, establishes, sets up, monitors, governs and regulates institutions and academies for skills excellence for development of core employability skills, competency standards and for promoting technology that meets the demands of various industries, globally.

KASE also provides accreditation to skill training institutions, subject to adherence of accreditation conditions, through a high level committee of experts constituted for the purpose.

PMKVY

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

PMKVY is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Log onto: http://pmkvyofficial.org/

DDUGKY

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana

Vision: Transform rural poor youth into an economically independent and globally relevant workforce

The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas, on 25th September 2014. DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.

DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. As a part of the Skill India campaign, it plays an instrumental role in supporting the social and economic programs of the government like the Make In India, Digital India, Smart Cities and Start-Up India, Stand-Up India campaigns.

Over 180 million or 69% of the country’s youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth from poor families with no or marginal employment number about 55 million.

For more details:

Log onto: http://ddugky.gov.in/

ASAP

ASAP, Additional Skill Acquisition Programme is a joint initiative of General Education Department and Higher Education Department, Government Of Kerala.

ASAP has been developed to impart sector specific skills to create a labour market ready work force.

The students studying at Government and Government Aided Higher Secondary Schools and at the Arts and Science Undergraduate Colleges will be equipped with sector specific skills to make them employable.

ASAP envisages development of skill programmes in three levels, that is, from certificate programmes to dual degree programmes. The programmes shall also be dovetailed to National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework (NVEQF). The starting point will be at level three or four of NVEQF.

The ASAP level 1 programme, which commenced during November 2012, is a combination of three courses, namely, Communication Skills in English, Basic IT and an Elective Domain Specific Skill Course.

The Programmes are developed, delivered, assessed and certified with the active participation of the related industries to ensure labour market acceptance of the programmes.

By imparting Communication Skills in English and Basic IT courses to a large student community, the project envisages to create a large talent pool that can work in modern day organizations that promote a global work environment. By choice student groups receive sector specific skills that further enable them to be employable and industry ready.

NSQF, RPL, NOSs, SSC

National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF)

The National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) is a competency-based framework that organizes all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude. These levels, graded from one to ten, are defined in terms of learning outcomes which the learner must possess regardless of whether they are obtained through formal, non-formal or informal learning.


Under NSQF, the learner can acquire the certification for competency needed at any level through formal, non-formal or informal learning. In that sense, the NSQF is a quality assurance framework. Presently, more than 100 countries have, or are in the process of developing national qualification frameworks.


Specific outcomes expected from implementation of NSQF are: 

1. Mobility between vocational and general education by alignment of degrees with NSQF 
2. Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), allowing transition from non-formal to organised job market 
3. Standardised, consistent, nationally acceptable outcomes of training across the country through a national quality assurance framework 
4. Global mobility of skilled workforce from India, through international equivalence of NSQF 
5. Mapping of progression pathways within sectors and cross-sectorally 
6. Approval of NOS/QPs as national standards for skill training 

Recognition of Prior Learning:

RPL is a platform to provide recognition to the informal learning or learning through work to get equal acceptance as the formal levels of education. It aims to appreciate prior learning irrespective of the medium of achieving it. In short, RPL is a process of assessment of an individual’s prior learning to give due importance to learning as an outcome rather than learning as process.


Sector Skill Councils are responsible for the creation of QPs and NOSs. These Occupational Standards are open for public viewing for a month on http://www.nsdcindia.org/nos. All those who have participated in development and validation of standards as well as the industry are informed by the SSC that the Occupational Standards have been published for comments.All comments/ feedback received during the period will be responded to by respective Sector Skill Council under intimation to NSDC. After one month of public viewing, these standards will be promulgated as National Standards.

National Occupational Standards (NOSs) specify the standard of performance, knowledge and understanding when carrying out a particular activity in the workplace. Each NOS defines one key function in a job role. Example: For a Sales Associate, one of the NOS would be to 'To help customers choose right products'


QPs – A set of NOSs, aligned to a job role, called Qualification Packs (QPs), would be available for every job role in each industry sector. These drive both the creation of curriculum, and assessments. These job roles would be at various proficiency levels, and aligned to the NSQF. Example would be Qualification Pack of a Sales Associate


For more details Log onto : http://www.skilldevelopment.gov.in/nsqf.html