Now Australian stamp of approval for online vocational courses

Chennai:
Now students undertaking vocational courses could get an Australian stamp of approval to enter the job markets worldwide.

This comes in the wake of India-based CEO Skill Foundation Private Limited signing a memorandum of understanding with Australasian Academy of Mentoring and Coaching (AAMC) Training Group, a wholly Australian owned Registered Training Organisation that delivers certified training across a number of industries both within Australia and internationally, to certify the courses.

The online courses that would have AAMC stamp of approval that include retail, banking, credit management, financial services and occupational health and safety,  said S Deenadayalan, director of CEO Skill Foundation Private Limited, who signed the agreement with Jeff Mazzini, managing director of AAMC.

Australian Consulate general for south India David Holly said that Australia is working to provide expertise to India in bridging the skills gap. “The next wave of memorandum of understanding would be focusing on skills education,” said Holly highlighting Australian government’s keenness to help the Indian government achieve target to provide skills based training to 500 million youngsters by 2023.

Holly said that this MoU comes in the wake of National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF), Ministry of Human Resources Department’s ambitious project, which aims at creating a pool of skilled professionals by inculcating vocational education into conventional education.

Interestingly, AAMC is also planning to work with Central Board of Secondary Education and All India Council for Technical Education, said Mazzini. “We will be signing an MOU with in this regard by first week of September,” said Mazzini.

“The MoU will make us skill knowledge partner from Australia,” said Mazzini. Interestingly, AAMC is already working with the Gujarat government in offering its solutions in framing the content as well as offering expertise in subject matter classification.

Deenadayalan said the MoU with AAMC would help the corporation as well as government school students who would be nurtured with the skills. Although the vocational skills training cost around Rs 4,000 to Rs 35,000, Deenadayalan said that most of its is being borne by the companies themselves. “First we go to the companies and find out what their requirement is then we provide the skills training to the students,” he said.

Currently, the MoU with AAMC is focused only on manufacturing sector and BPOs but in the future the aim is also to reach the rural parts of India and particularly rural banking. “We are also planning to come out with rural banking models,” says Mazzini, whose firm has a presence in 50 countries. Interestingly, with the massive change in technology even the vocational courses are also undergoing changes. “We are always talking to the industry to keep our students abreast of the recent development and satisfy the need of industries,” said Deenadayalan.