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Skill Development

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Skill Development

In the classroom and on the shopfloor

Swiss VET is based on a dual-track apprenticeship system — practical training at a company’s premises is supplemented by vocational and general educational subjects at a VET institute.

SkillSonics can set up training workshops for a client’s employed and contracted technicians, as well as for its vendors’ employees. An entry-level technician gets practical shop-floor training and theoretical instruction. The trainee learns the company’s work processes and its cultural norms. Most importantly, the technician is ready to perform independently at international skill levels after completing the program. Existing technicians can take accelerated courses to upgrade their skills in areas where the company has identified skill gaps or wants to reskill its workforce.

Entry Level: Multi-Skilled Production Technician & Maintenance/Service Technician

Duration: 2 to 3 years

Fields:

  • Conventional Machining
  • CNC Machining
  • Joining of Metals & Sheet Metal
  • Mechatronics
Specialized: Production Technician

Duration: 6 months to 1 year

Fields:

  • Electrical/Mechanical
  • Skills Upgrade: Accelerated courses of up to 1 month
  • For workforce/engineering students
  • Designed in modules for flexible delivery
Trainer and Expert Vocational Education and Training (VET) Qualification Profiles

Qualification profiles describe the requirements and entry competencies for each occupation. They provide a detailed overview of the necessary professional qualifications which would be acquired during the course of training.

Technician Qualification Profiles
SkillSonics and TCS iON Digital Learning Platform
  • State-of-the-art technology
  • Interactive customized content
  • Global and user-friendly access to the platform
  • Digital assessment for various qualifications
  • Perfect complement to practical training
  • Globally available 24/7

Skill Consulting

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Skill Consulting

Targeted to your needs

We analyse your requirements, conduct potential demand analysis and provide you with proposals. Our experts go the extra mile to implement the best available program and technical infrastructure calibrated to the specifics of your case.

Areas
  • Skills Gap Analysis
  • Set up centers of excellence
  • Design classroom layouts
  • Design laboratory/ workshop layouts
  • Recommend list of equipment & tools
  • Joint certification with training partners

Swiss Vocational Education and Training

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Case Study

Rafaela Portmann

Automation Technician at Mechatronik Schule Winterthur – MSW, Winterthur, Switzerland

“Switzerland has a very good education system. I’m doing an apprenticeship as an automation technician because I didn’t want to attend high school. Nevertheless, all doors are still open for me and I can go to college thanks to  my vocational diploma.”

Swiss Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Apprenticeship training in Switzerland has a long-standing tradition. Today, VET is the predominant form of high school education in Switzerland. About 65% of all young people are in a VET program. Most VET courses are offered through the company-based dual-track system, so-called because there are two places of learning — a vocational school for general education and a host company for practical training.

Education in Switzerland is a holistic system geared towards the needs of the labor market. It is largely due to VET that Switzerland has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world, and that its companies are successful both at home and in the global marketplace.

In Switzerland, VET programs of two, three or four years exist in approximately 230 occupations in all fields of industry, including commerce, hospitality and agriculture. Students are employed by a host company in their vocational area throughout the program. Those who wish to get a university degree following their apprenticeship may do so after fulfilling certain scholastic requirements.

The strength of Switzerland’s VET system can be attributed to the following characteristics:

  • The system is strongly driven by companies and market. Theoretical instruction and practical training are directly linked to company requirements.
  • VET is not the realm of low achievers but regarded as a desirable entry point to a promising career.
  • VET offers career opportunities to participants since they have the relevant hard and soft skills, and hands-on experience.
  • The Swiss system is permeable, allowing people who have done VET to later get an academic degree and vice versa. In this sense, no person is locked into a single professional path and can move between educational systems with relative ease.

Swiss VET is a joint mission of the public and private sectors. The tasks are shared among the Swiss Confederation that functions as the overall regulatory body in charge of quality assurance; the industry associations that define the training content; the 26 cantons that supervise implementation; and the host companies that hire apprentices under special training contracts.

Skillsonics Trainer Success Story

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Skillsonics Trainer Success Story

My name is Santosh C V Chellappa. I’m a 40-year technical trainer of Swiss-based Multi-Skilled Production Technicians (MSPT) at Buhler India Private Limited in Bangalore, India

I’m currently a VET instructor and trainer of 14 trainees at Buhler India Private Limited in Bangalore. I have an MSc Engineering Degree from M.S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore and a diploma in NTTF Tool and Die-Making. SkillSonics trained me in Swiss VET methodology with instructors from Swissmem and SFIVET. Training methodology such as IPERKA and AVIVA helps me to plan and structure my lessons, and generally execute tasks effectively.

My trainees are between 18 and 21, 90% are male and 10% female. Most of them come from outside the Bangalore Region. They come to us directly from technical college (ITI – Industrial Training Institutes) and don’t have industry- related work experience.

The VET curriculum at Buhler is 40% classroom instruction, 60% practical training. I train the group in assembly, technical drawing, CNC, machining skills and calculation. They have exams at the end of each semester based on Swiss quality standards.

The apprentices I teach are very motivated and work incredibly hard to become skilled technicians. Sagaya Mary is one of them. I would say that mastering English is their biggest challenge, but they learn it quite fast. It takes about 4 months of training for them to understand better. One they get their VET diplomas, my trainees are an inverted-commaattractive workforce for companies though they continue working for Buhler as a prerequisite of their participation in the apprenticeship program.

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Company Skillsonics exports vocational training

Franz Probst (62) has already enabled more than 5,000 Indians to study apprenticeship. His company Skillsonics carries out training for companies such as ABB, Bühler, Burckhardt Compression or Rieter. Now he wants to expand.

Swiss teaching for one million Indians

From cheese, chocolate and watches. Switzerland is becoming more and more famous abroad for its latest export hit: apprenticeships. Not only US presidential daughter Ivanka Trump (35) is thrilled (Blick reported). In many countries, interest in training is increasing according to the Swiss model.

Pioneering work is done by the Winterthur lawyer Franz Probst (62). Nine years ago, he founded the company Skillsonics, which carries out vocational training in India for the industrial groups ABB , Bühler and Rieter. Probst provides curricula and teaching aids, trains teachers and runs vocational schools.

That's why India

“Both sides benefit from the training. The Indian youth get a good job and the Swiss companies skilled workers, “says Probst, who formerly headed the Indo-Swiss Chamber of Commerce. And lived in India in his childhood – his father worked there for Rieter.

Thanks to Skillsonics, Probst has already made it possible to teach India 5,000 Indians. The industry association Swissmem checks the quality of training and issues certificates.

“The young people come partly from villages where there is no running water. For them, the training offers the opportunity for a great social advancement », says Probst. Soon, many more will benefit: “The goal is to train up to one million Indians in the next few years.” He finds fertile ground here: The Indian government plans to train some 500 million professionals by 2022.

That's how much training costs

Skillsonics wants to become self-supporting this year. For a year of training she gets from the companies 500 francs. Profit is needed to expand. And to offer lessons in other industries in the future. For Probst India is just the beginning: “Next year, we would like to start our project in South Africa .”