Concretely
To understand how and why the entrenchment of vocationalisation at progressively earlier stages in a student’s development is actually an entrenchment of the class structures in society, it will help us to review the excellent analysis by Radhika Saraf in Economic and Political Weekly.6 Since an overwhelming majority (over 90%) of the Indian workforce is employed in the informal sector of the economy7 and is poorly educated,8 it is perhaps unsurprising that the impetus for expanding vocational education was precisely that it hoped to tap into this great reservoir of human potential.9 Saraf summarises the emphasis on vocationalisation quite neatly: