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A View from the Outside: India’s School to Work Transition Challenge – Strengths and Weakness

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School to work transition and the preparation for the world of work are highly important aspects in India’s education and training policy (King 2012).

India has a huge potential which does not only manifest itself in the growing population and the huge number of youths who stream into the education and labour market system; its economic and geostrategic position at the interface between Asia and the Arab region is of high relevance for economic growth and future developments.

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Pilz, M. (2016). A View from the Outside: India’s School to Work Transition Challenge – Strengths and Weakness. In: Pilz, M. (eds) India: Preparation for the World of Work. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08502-5_17

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