Australia assured its support to India help meet the skill development challenges.
In helping India meet its goal to upskill 500 million people by 2022, Australia assured its support to country by providing trainers, who can help meet the skill development challenges. The assurance came during a meeting between Union Minister of State for Skill Development Rajeev Pratap Rudy and Australian Assistant Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham.
Birmingham said that the meeting has helped build their bilateral skills relationship with India so they can seize emerging opportunities in both countries. He further added that international education is Australia's most successful services export worth AUD 16.3 billion in 2013-14, and supporting around 130,000 jobs across Australia.
They are negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with India and piloting international training and assessment courses to upskill Indian trainers and assessors. They are also working to sign a Free Trade Agreement with India by the end of this year, with particular opportunities for service industries, informed Birmingham.
He further explained that in 2013-14, education related services with India made up AUD 1.5 billion of our services exports. The Australian government has developed internationally relevant training courses benchmarked to Australian standard.
He said "these have the potential to be used, so Australian training providers can help meet India's skill challenges. India has a goal to upskill 500 million of its people by 2022, requiring an estimated 70,000 highly skilled trainers now and 20,000 additional trainers each year.”
"To achieve this, India must address significant challenges, particularly in ensuring that training produces skills that are globally relevant, and that there is a sufficient supply of highly skilled trainers to deliver this," he said.
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