Volume 8 : Issue 2 (2021)

Outcome-Based Learning through Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Programme to Meets the Gap of Employability

In the 21st-century era,skillsare very important to solve any problems, problems solving skills should be developed to solve the situationalproblem in our daily life. In the present degree programme, the curriculum which ispracticed in schools,colleges, and universities are only develops the learners' knowledge not focused on skills. So problem-solving skills must be nurture through curriculum not only theoretical but its hands-on experience through the training programme.Which makes the learners Apprenticeship and matkes them capable to make the employable person. UGC has formulated these Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions to offer Apprenticeship/Internship embedded Degree Programme for embedding apprenticeship/internship in generaldegree programmes offered by the different kind of Universities. In the degree course curriculum should be such that can able to create the benefit of employment for the learner also government should to take the responsibilities to create the job opportunity of the learners. Objectives of this paper to proposed outcome-based learning through apprenticeship embedded degree programme (AEDP). Secondary databased paper, Researcher collected data from different sources there are e-books reports, policies, Apprenticeship/ Internship Act’s, websites, observation of various organization, journal articles, national and international articles published in local papers, etc. Apprenticeship programme enhance problem-solving skills and outcome-based learning for a new generation of learners.

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