Tamil Nadu Guidance

WorkLabs

WorkLabs cell is set up to create an enabling ecosystem for developing a future-ready workforce. Producing an industry-ready and future-ready workforce requires a strong collaboration between academia and industry that fosters innovation and transforms the education system.

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As a part of Industries Department Budget Announcement in 2021, WorkLabs has been set up in Guidance. WorkLabs is a cell set up to promote, facilitate, and expand industry and academia collaboration in the state to address and minimise talent and skills gap in the workforce for the industries in Tamil Nadu.

WorkLabs

The primary roles and responsibilities of WorkLabs is to:

Engage: With higher and technical education bodies to facilitate revision and development of core learning curriculum on par with industrial requirements.

Enhance: Industry participation and involvement with the academia to develop industry-ready talent pool and higher employability amongst graduates.

Support: Initiatives and programmes on academia-industry linkages by other govt. bodies and business chambers.

Lead: Outreach and public engagement activities for greater visibility of state's talent and skilled workforce.

Facilitate: Knowledge transfer and seamless mobility of resources between industry and academia for application-inspired research and innovation in the state.

Form: Bilateral collaborations and strategic partnerships between the state and international academia and industry bodies to develop a talent pipeline on par with global standards.

Industry-academia collaboration framework

Level 1: Aware
Level 2: Engage
Level 3: Progress
Level 4: Innovate
  • Industrial training workshops for students
  • Exposure to industrial shop floors
  • Guest lectures from industry experts for higher education colleges and universities
  • Short-term faculty development programme

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