India would implement the US concept of community colleges

Updated on: Thursday, June 27, 2013

With an uphill task of providing skill to 500 million youth, India said it would implement the US concept of community colleges to make sure that its workforce is trained to meet new upcoming challenges.

Union HRD Minister, Pallam Raju told, India has decided to develop community colleges, based on the success story of US in providing skill education to its youth work workforce.

Briefing reporters after the India-US Higher Education Dialogue here, he, however, said, "We are only borrowing the concept and not going to replicate what is happening there in the US" as the economic condition of the two nations are different.

"It is a relevant model. Over 100 years, the US has fine tuned that model. It has become much more than impacting skills," Raju said about the skill development through community colleges. It will work closely with industry and business from the area to develop skill sets that are required from the local areas.

Meanwhile, the US stressed on jointly working towards increasing skills of students to face future challenges and said this can be done through exchange programmes and partnerships between India and the US.

"We need to make sure that next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs have the skills and training," US Secretary of State John Kerry said.

Those who work in government and private sectors need to join together in order to focus and meet the challenges in education, he said.

Raju and Kerry co-chaired the India-US Higher Education Dialogue.

India would implement the US concept of community colleges

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