1st Edition
India Higher Education Report 2020 Employment and Employability of Higher Education Graduates in India
1. Employment and employability of higher education graduates: an overview
N.V. Varghese and Mona Khare
Part I: Economic Growth and Employment of the Educated
2. The crisis of jobless growth in India
Rajat Kathuria and Ujjwal Krishna
3. On the persistence of informal work and self-employment in India
S. Chandrasekhar and Vasavi Bhatt
4. Migration, education and employment in India
S. Irudaya Rajan
5. Declining labour force participation in India: does education and training help?
S. Madheswaran and J.K. Parida
6. Trends in employment and unemployment in India: dimensions of gender, caste and education
Rajendra P. Mamgain and Khalid Khan
Part II: Graduate Employability and Skills Mismatch
7. Skills mismatch of higher education graduates in India: factors determining employability quotient
Mona Khare
8. General, technical and professional education: employability skill gaps
Ritika Sinha
9. Education, skills mismatch and wage differentials
Sahana Roy Chowdhury, Catherine Bros and Sayoree Gooptu
Part III: Education and Skill Formation
10. India’s national skills qualification framework and employment: the promise and the reality
Santosh Mehrotra
11. Curriculum and pedagogy in higher education for skill development
Nikhil Agarwal and Aprant Agarwal
12. Skilling India: vocational orientation to higher education
Pankaj Mittal
13. Skill universities in India
S.K. Shukla and Komal Raghav
14. Informal modes of skill formation
Vineeta Sirohi
Part IV: Education–Industry Relationship
15. Industry–academia linkages in India’s technical education sector
Raj Agrawal and Anuja Pandey
16. Refuelling entrepreneurship education in India: a case study
Kavita Saxena
17. Executive education and career advancement: sustainable employment
Neetu Jain and Ajay K. Jain
Biography
N.V. Varghese is Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and the founding director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education at NIEPA, New Delhi, India.
Mona Khare is Professor and Head, Department of Educational Finance, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. She is associated with various government bodies and international education forums in research, consultancy and advisory activities.
