Turning Aspirations into Achievement with Swiss Vocational School

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Turning Aspirations into Achievement with Swiss
Vocational School If lack of employment
generation is one of the major challenges for the
country, employability is a major challenge for
the youth. Majority of what we call demographic
dividends in India face unemployment as much for
lacking employability skills as much as it is for
actual dearth of employment opportunities.
Generally, after 10th or 12th standards a student
stands at a crossroads of choosing the right
career path, however, lacking awareness of what
it takes to be employable from myriads of the
likes of him or her. Vocational schooling which
is a successful method followed in developed
countries can come to aid this problem in the
country. Vocational schooling in India is yet to
make its position parallel to mainstream
education because as a society or industry or
government, we never took it seriously. But we
can see now why we are struggling with quality
and efficiency whereas countries like Switzerland
and Germany have progressed by leaps and bounds,
leaving us way behind. We aspire for "SWISS"
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• Chocolate, watches, "GERMAN" Machines and
  Products when it comes to best quality and
  precision....the key is the quality from the
  bottom.
• The pioneering Swiss Vocational School is the
  brainchild of Mr. Manish Kothari, Managing
  Director Rhino Machines and ACE Foundation, and
  is a timely initiative in the country to address
  the issue of unemployment and help the aspiring
  youth reach their goals.
• Why Swiss Education System
• In Swiss System there are 240 vocations where
  the young 16 year olds (70 of them opt for this)
  take vocational education before transiting to
  higher education. At the age of 16, normally a
  student in India would have cleared Class 10 (or
  appeared for it).Those who do not have a very
  clear vision of their roadmap in higher
  education such as being a research scientist in
  technical, medical, commercial areas those who
  are still trying to figure out whats best for
  them those who are from low income group who
  need to earn and learn still have a growth path
  those who do not wish to study much but acquire
  some basic life skills which probably is 70 of
  the children.
• How Swiss Vocational Makes a Difference in Indian
  Context
• The Start of Career
• Admission of a Swiss Vocational School (where
  Industry is already a partner) at age of 16
• In 2 years acquire basic skills to start working
  in the industry as a mechanical, electrical or
  any
• such single skill be assured of job of the
  skill acquired, and be capable of fulfilling the
  employer expectations from day one.
• Finding the right future earn, learn and
  progress
• Path 1

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• b. Work for some time and do further part
  time/full time studies as per choice need
• Path 3
• acquire min 1-year experience, take NCVT or
  equivalent certification
• progress to higher education to the level of
  choice or need while working or full time
  education options are open.
• The graphical representation shows all the paths
  and the most important factor is EMPLOYMENT for
  the youth and ASSURANCE to the EMPLOYER of the
  Quality of new workforce.
• The objective of starting the Swiss Vocational
  School was to leverage the human capital into
  highly productive and efficient quality assets.
  The Swiss Vocational Education has structured
  quality training for more than 100 years and had
  a strong industry and training partnership model.
  On the other hand, the Indian industry was in
  need of an appropriately skilled workforce and
  had a great demographic dividend needing quality
  training. Rhino and ACE aimed to create
  professionals with improved soft skills,
  enhanced professional competencies, having
  multi-skills and increased productivity and who
  are self- confident and self-responsible.
• The other stakeholders in the Swiss Vocational
  School were SkillSonics and the Swiss Government
  and training institutes. SkillSonics has been
  aligned with SwissMEM (industry associations),
  SFIVET (Swiss Government), NSDC (Government of
  India) and CII and FICCI (industry associations).
  During these long- term associations,
  SkillSonics has been striving to transfer the
  Swiss 127 years old solutions to the Indian
  vocational ecosystem. The Swiss Government and
  training institutes provide exposure to
  international training. They offer access to more
  than 100 years of Quality Training modules. There
  is a facility of dual certification.
• In case of this Swiss Vocational School, in 2015,
  the training centre setup and marketing had
  begun. Training was provided to the Rhino
  trainers and instructors. The first batch of 22
  students of a 6-month ITI course was completed.
  In 2016, training was provided under the SVETII
  QAP. The first batch of 12 electrical and 10
  mechanical 6-month ITS course cleared the NSDC
  course. In the next year, the SERI- sponsored
  and SkillSonics-supported TOT in welding and
  automation had begun. Training was provided to
  engineers in industrial automation and
  electro-pneumatics. A partnership was established
  between Rhino and the Government of Gujarat to
  bring Swiss training to ITI Santrampur, which is
  now being kick started on 12th July 2018. In the
  beginning of 2018, the empanelment in the
  Government of Gujarat for the Skill Upgradation
  Centre was completed. Industrial automation
  training for existing employees of

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industries, students, and faculties was started.
Interaction took place with the Government of
Gujarat for Swiss TOT. The Swiss Vocational
Centre has recognized that the need of vocational
training in India is very strong, and it has
found the correct solution. The center
understands that it cannot change the situation
overnight, but can work around the system and
deliver what it aims at. For this, it has
re-tuned and adjusted the curriculum, delivery
methodology, and industry participation with
government certification. The Swiss Style
Apprenticeship training is the fulcrum of
reaching the safety, quality and productivity
standards that are acceptable at the
international level. The Rhino-ACE vocational
school adheres to the Swiss system that is
brought by SkillSonics and followed in
Switzerland. The courses are aligned to the NSDC
SSC courses, and they follow the NAPS route to
enlist the students. Students are provided a
step-by-step path to enable them for higher
education such as degree, masters, diploma and
MSPT. The highlight of these courses is that
students are assured of employment right from
the date they join the program if they clear the
levels defined by the Swiss system. At each
level, the students can learn more and move up
the career path. Mr. Kothari has through the
Swiss Vocational School charted out the following
path for 2 of the most common and generic
vocations required in the manufacturing industry.
The students who are approximately 16years old
are given admission, are equipped with basic
mechanical, engineering etc. skills to begin
work in the industry. Mr. Kothari has now
announced the third batch of production
technicians. The intake is of 20 students for
Mechanical and 20 students for Electrical. The
next batch commences on July 16, 2018. Contact
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