ICON Institute trains Indian trainers

On the vigil of the 5th Global Skills Summit in New Delhi, the Cologne-based ICON Institute Consulting Group hosted a taster course for Indian vocational training supervisors. The one-day taster course focused on modern methods in vocational pedagogics.

 

The Indian Jinda Steel & Power Ltd corporation provided its company headquarters in New Delhi as a venue for the training. The enterprise also dispatched 15 vocational training supervisors from the company-owned O. P. Jindal Community Colleges to attend the taster course.

 

Another 15 participants came from private and state-owned vocational education and training institutions (ITIs – Industrial Training Institutes), which cooperate with each other within the umbrella organisation National Association of Vocational Training Providers (NAVTP) headed by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

 

The Indian vocational training supervisors proved to be remarkably open to and interested in modern methods of vocational pedagogics, which as yet are not widely employed in the Indian vocational education and training system.

 

The feedback from the trainers attending the taster course was positive without exception. For instance, Miriam Carter, Director of the O. P. Jindal Community Colleges, is certain in her intention of seeking further collaboration with the ICON Institute to obtain qualifications for her teachers and trainers.

The National Thermal Power Corporation Public Ltd., one of the largest state-owned producers of energy, who recently incorporated 17 state-owned ITIs, likewise sent trainers to attend the taster course. This enterprise, too, showed great interest in the training measure and asked the ICON Institute to provide a proposal for the implementation of longer courses for trainers.

 

For a long time now, the marked shortage of qualified Indian training personnel has been known to be the greatest impediment in the further development and modernisation of the country's vocational education and training system. Likewise, India has long since identified the problem of missing capacities to improve the training provision for Indian vocational training supervisors and is seeking solutions.

 

The sustained rehabilitation of these deficits is subject to discussion between the vocational education and training department of the Indian industry umbrella organisation FICCI and the ICON Institute.

 

Approximately two years ago, iMOVE had established the contact between these two partners. The one-day taster course now implemented is a first result of the talks between FICCI and the ICON Institute.