{"id":19056,"date":"2019-08-03T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2019-08-03T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T18:51:00","slug":"minister-india-job-seeker-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/minister-india-job-seeker-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister says India invests in job seeker economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aamaadmiparty.org\/teams\/manish-sisodia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manish Sisodia<\/a>, Delhi\u2019s Education Minister, recently announced that the country is aiming to remain a job seeker economy. In a press conference this Friday, Mr. Sisodia announced a new government program called \u201cEntrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea behind the initiative is to introduce students in the region to entrepreneurship and its <strong>underlying principles so that they can be better prepared for the shift between education and the labor market.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The specialized curriculum has already entered all Delhi schools, and students between ninth and twelfth grade get to participate. During a meeting with more than two hundred entrepreneurs and business representatives from the region, <strong>Mr. Sisodia emphasized that the labor market and the educational system should work together to help students prepare better for life after they finish school.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Job seeker economy and vocational education<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the most critical factors for the development of India\u2019s job seeker economy is the improvement of vocational education in the country. <strong>Many countries around the world are looking into ways to boost vocational training.<\/strong> Some examples include Germany and China, who recently signed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/vocational-education-for-strengthening-the-sino-german-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joint program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to promote exchange opportunities for students looking for vocational education<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Mr. Sisodia, <strong>reforming the education policies in the country will help India achieve better GDP.<\/strong> Currently, India is ranked at seventh place in the world in terms of gross domestic product; however, just a few years ago, the country was holding the fifth position.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cEntrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum\u201d is a great way to boost students\u2019 awareness of their opportunities once high school is over. Not only that, but <strong>children will also develop a passion for business as a result of this initiative, which will boost India\u2019s economy in the future.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manish Sisodia, Delhi\u2019s Education Minister, recently announced that the country is aiming to remain a job seeker economy. In a press conference this Friday, Mr. Sisodia announced a new government program called \u201cEntrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum.\u201d\u00a0 The idea behind the initiative is to introduce students in the region to entrepreneurship and its underlying principles so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[511,607,741],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}