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CONTENTS January 2018 | Volume 14 | Issue 01

Special article

Digital Learning Revisits Innovations in Education

Karnataka’s education perspective

School Leadership Summits’ Legacy

24 Mission 2020 for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Recognising the Finest Practices and Minds

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32 P Panneervel CEO of ICT Infracon

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Jitendra Karsan

CEO – Safari Kid

What Holds for Education in 2018

MD International School Providing value based education

Rita Kaul Director The Millennium Schools

Rishi Kedia Co-founder and CEO Neev Finance

Editor-in-Chief Dr Ravi Gupta Editorial Team - Delhi/NCR Senior Assistant Editors: Souvik Goswami, Gautam Debroy Assistant Editors: Sandeep Datta, Priyanka Sharma, Gopi Krishna Arora Senior Correspondent: Akash Tomer Correspondents: Rashi Aditi Ghosh, Rajbala, Dipen Pradhan Bengaluru Bureau Associate Editor: T Radha Krishna Mumbai Bureau Senior Assistant Editor: Kartik Sharma Senior Correspondents: Poulami Chakraborty, Rakesh Kumar Roy Correspondent: Harshal Yashwant Desai Jaipur Bureau Senior Assistant Editor: Kartik Sharma Chandigarh Bureau Assistant Editor: Priya Yadav Hyderabad Bureau Assistant Editor: Sudheer Goutham B Amaravati Bureau Correspondent: Mohammad Akbar Basha Lucknow Bureau Assistant Editor: Arpit Gupta

Ahmedabad Bureau Assistant Editor: Hemangini S Rajput Odisha Bureau Senior Correspondent: Biswajit Sahoo Raipur Bureau Correspondent: Susmriti Sahu Bhopal Bureau Senior Correspondent: Divakar Mukherjee Sales & Marketing : digitalLearning Senior Manager: Kumar Chandan Anand Project Manager: Pradeep Negi Assistant Managers: Sandeep Gulati, Ashish Jain, Amit Kumar Chandrabhan Singh Senior Executive: Ashutosh Dubey, Executives: Neha Dwivedi, Silky Bhatia, Rewanshi Singh Subscription & Circulation Team +91-8860635832; subscription@elets.in Design Team Creative Head: Anjan Dey Deputy Art Directors: Om Prakash Thakur, Gopal Thakur, Shyam Kishore Graphic Designer: Twinkal Gupta Director, Administration Archana Jaiswal

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EDITORIAL Demystifying the Indian Education Ecosystem in 2018 In a move to celebrate how our Indian education system is set to witness the most innovative ways to learn and enjoy learning experience, it’s significant to understand the need, the scope, and the advantages of a new education system in contemporary India. Our latest endeavour indicates and explores what special things can be anticipated from the education ecosystem in 2018. With the Education Landscape’s horizon expanding every year, the key factors like innovations, modern practices and technologies are leaving a mark on it like never before. The unprecedented level of change is caused by the modern-day’s needs to make education relevant for student fraternity at large. In a bid to celebrate the legacy of School Leadership Summits organised by the digitalLearning Magazine, a premier publication of the Elets Technomedia Private Limited on innovation in education, it has prompted us to underline how significant these summits have been in the education world. A key objective of these summits has been to facilitate the top schools and preschools of India on the basis of their exemplary work in the field of school education. It is vital to understand how this forum serves as the knowledge-sharing platform for thought leaders, edu-experts and industry leaders. Our Special Story -- School Leadership Summits’ Legacy – Recognising the Finest Practices and Minds – is a just a summarised reflection on these aspects. Our latest issue also carries a special article – digitalLearning Revisits Innovations in Education – highlighting how we have underlined the various developments and embracing of modern technology in education world. Also, with the Governments infusing a variety of things through innovations in the education sector, we have talked about how the 2017 has been an eventful year. Having played the role of a lighthouse on the key developments, this issue has brought to you a flashback of the year gone by as captured and observed through each of our monthly issues. With special features like “Mission 2020 for Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan”, “Karnataka: Registration Process for SSLC Goes Digital”,and an interview of P Panneervel, CEO of ICT Infracon and (retd.) chief secretary, Government of Gujarat, the latest issue offers a Karnataka perspective about the education sector. This segment is a reflection upon how this most happening southern State is gearing up to take education to all, while making it more meaningful in modern times. With this bouquet of special stories, interviews and industry stakeholders, we hope our latest endeavour will evoke an invaluable readers’ feedback.

Dr Ravi Gupta Editor-in-Chief digitalLEARNING magazine and CEO Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd

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Digital Learning Revisits Innovations in Education The 2017 has been an eventful year for the education sector, as the Governments have been infusing a variety of things through innovations in the education sector to make it more relevant for the student fraternity in the contemporary world. Having played the role of a lighthouse on the key developments, the digitalLearning magazine brings to you a flashback of the year gone by, captured and observed through each of our monthly issues. It is pertinent to mention this magazine also played a key role in bringing together world’s eduleaders at one platform through its print and web edition along with the premeir knowledge conferences. Let’s have a glance at the highlights of our different issues and conferences as observed by Elets News Network (ENN).

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February-March Issue

KALOREX Nurturing 21st Century Learners

Rediscovering Bahrain

The first issue of January 2017 showcased the best education practices and teaching methodologies followed by Kalorex schools for the holistic development of its students. “The motive of Kalorex is to develop global learners equipped with 21st century learning skills,” stated Manjula Pooja Shroff, MD & CEO, Kalorex Group, in the cover interview. She explained their strategies and methodologies. She also threw light on the various philanthropic activities of the group. The interview also comprises the details of awards won by the group for its best educational practices and philanthropic work.

This was a special issue which revolved around World Education Summit (WES) 2017 Bahrain and recognised the global education ecosystem’s best practices. The summit was inaugurated by H E Dr Majid Bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, Minister of Education, Kingdom of Bahrain. The cover story of the February and March 2017 issue covered the improvements in formal education sector of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Governments across the region have invested heavily in the education sector and over the past 25 years witnessed a rapid expansion in primary, secondary and tertiary education. Despite all the development in the education space, the region has a lot of scope to grow in terms of bridging the gap between skill development and job market.

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experiences in the Indian schools through the cover story “Rehashing School Education Practices through Innovation”.

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Through our three special stories “Ensuring Holistic Development of Children”, “ICT in Higher Education Taking Learning Process to the Next Level”, and “Sports-Key to Character Building of Schoolchildren”, the magazine attempted to touch upon some latent dimensions of the existing education scenario of the country. Another prominent interview was of Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE, who talked about the council’s various steps undertaken to improve technical and higher education in the country.

April Issue Private Engineering Colleges Ranking and Annual Resource Guide Finding out the most suitable institute or college as per one’s academic prowess and financial means most often proves a Herculean task, especially in engineering stream. Considering the complications of zeroing-in on the most suitable option, we decided to devote our Digital Learning magazine’s April issue to “State-wise Ranking of Private Engineering Institutes and Colleges -2017”, conducted by a perception-based methodology by a jury involving experts. In addition, our cover story – “Annual Resource Guide: Sourcing Educational Prerequisites” – was a step towards furthering Digital Learning magazine’s legacy providing better insights, enabling consumers to take an informed decision. The issue also comprised the glimpses of “elets 8th World Education Summit Bahrain 2017” that witnessed a grand congregation of leading speakers and hundreds of delegates from as many as 12 countries from across the world.

July-August ISSUE Rajasthan Higher Education Souvenir The July-August issue of Digital Learning magazine was published in association with Department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan. The Souvenir carried a number of prominent and distinguished who’s who of Rajasthan whose presence has brought remarkable changes in the Rajasthan education system. An important feature of this issue of the magazine was congratulatory messages from the President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh and Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

May-June Issue

With Rajasthan, one of most vibrant and progressive States of the country, focusing on its education sector in a big way, the Digital Learning magazine’s Cover Story — Rajasthan Higher Education Embracing Change for New Era of Opportunities — highlighted the growing charm for higher education among youngsters as an important prerequisite to grab highly r ewarding jobs.

Transforming School Education Practices Trough Innovation With a large number of schools adopting finest teaching-learning practices from across the world, our May-June issue tried to find out the practices that are improving and enriching educational

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was also intended to create an integrated and comprehensive database of diverse, high quality early childhood education and care services.

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Our special interview on Sanfort — a pioneer partner of “Trinity College London” — was about bridging the learning gap in the early years of learning. The brand has around 150 preschools in 22 States of India and two abroad.

WES Delhi Special Issue Celebrating 10th Edition of WES In this issue, we highlighted how a growing role of innovation and technology in education sector is becoming too overwhelming for members of any progressive society to ignore it. We stated how it is serving as a useful tool to help our schools, colleges and universities deliver the information and knowledge effectively. Our cover story — WES Legacy: Bringing the Brightest Minds Together — was an attempt to explain and revisit the World Education Summit over the years and celebrate its 10th edition.

October Issue (Part I)

This special issue also contained insightful interviews of Kiran Maheshwari, Minister of Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan; Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ashok Jain, Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan among others.

In the wake of a large number of highly impressive thesis and innovative ideas emerging every year, the cover story of our magazine’s October issue explored how the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP) transformed these innovations into new products and services.

Nurturing innovation encouraging Startups: The Gujarat Way

A Hackathon Report also featured in this issue which showcased how a group of people recently tried to solve public problems through intellectual prowess away from any discrimination. We also tried to explore the perspective of various distinguished stakeholders including Anju Sharma, Principal Secretary, Higher and Technical Education, Government of Gujarat, Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and K K Nirala as Director of Technical Education, Gandhinagar and others.

October Issue (Special Issue) Top Schools of India Ranking 2017

September Issue India’s Top Preschool Ranking In the light of rapid growth of the preschool segment, the September issue of the magazine came up with India’s Top Preschools’ ranking for the second time.

This issue published the Top School Ranking-2017, a concise list of the best of schools across India which have been ranked in order of their performance on six parameters handpicked carefully. The benchmarks achieved by the schools in our ranking was done separately for five zones – North, South, West, East and Central.

Through “India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2017”, we endeavoured to explore various dimensions of the preschool segment. This year’s ranking

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November issue

December Issue

Happy Education: Dubai Inspires the World

Rajasthan Building Human Resource Capital with Higher Education

As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has embarked on a unique journey not many countries have treaded in the world, it’s steadfastly acquiring a distinction of being a global education hub with a difference. We endeavoured to highlight how the UAE’s new policies are focused on giving back to the world by making happiness and well-being the focal point of everything they do to improve quality of the education through the November Issue. Our cover story in this issue, “Happy Education: Dubai Inspires the World”, explored the three key pillars of the UAE’s ‘Year of Giving’ – Corporate Social Responsibility, Volunteering, and Serving the Nation – to develop a knowledge-based economy as the best in the world.

Rajasthan is among the top states in India in terms of number of institutions of higher learning. Given the high number of graduates and post-graduate students being churned out of these colleges and universities, providing meaningful employment through industry-academia partnership is of utmost priority for the State. Our cover story “Rajasthan Govt All Set to Bridge Students-Industry Gulf” in this special Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave, Rajasthan issue covered various initiatives and achievements of the Government of Rajasthan in facilitating direct employment of students.

Highlights of power packed global education conferences organised by DL in 2017 NATIONAL STUDENT

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Big Data Challenge Jaipur

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Speakers & Delegates

WES Dubai

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WES Bahrain

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National Student & Startup Summit, Ahmedabad

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School Leadership Summits’ Legacy Recognising the Finest Practices and Minds

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Looking at the potential of Information and communications technology (ICT) in making a significant and positive impact on education, it is vital to understand a forum that serves as the knowledge-sharing platform for thought leaders, edu-experts and industry leaders --the School Leadership Summit (SLS). Over the years digitalLearning through the School Leadership Summits has congregated various education stakeholders to deliberate on finest practices and innovations empowered by technological interventions. The objective of these summits is also to facilitate the top schools of India on the basis of their exemplary work in the field of school education. Let’s have a glance at the School Leadership Summits’ legacy:

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In today’s digital era, technology is needed in every sector of education. Now, schools are embracing technology and innovation to prepare for the future of learning. New technology is more integrated into the classroom than ever as educators and industry experts believe that both students and teachers can benefit from it and help in building a robust digital future. We all agree on the potential of ICT to have a significant and positive impact on education. Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd, the premier technology and media research organisation of Asia and the Middle East, is organising the 5th School Leadership Summit on 12 January, 2018, in Bengaluru with the vision to connect educators, policymakers, industry leaders and key stakeholders to share new ideas, best practices, latest trends with each other. This would thereby be an apt platform pitching and professing the new technological advances in school education.

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4th digitalLearning School Leadership Summit 2017 The 4th digitalLearning School Leadership Summit 2017 acted as a forum of knowledge sharing among the thought leaders, education experts & industry leaders. The summit was organised for various education stakeholder to deliberate on finest practices and innovations empowered by technological interventions. The conference was meant to achieve objectives of Educating, Encouraging, and Enlightening. The summit was intended to deliberate and initiate a dialogue on the changing paradigms around the emerging themes of Learning Outcomes, Outreach and Access, Vocationalisation, Examination Systems, Teacher Education, ICT Interventions for New Knowledge, Pedagogies and approaches for STEM education, Standards, Assessments and School Management systems, Learning Platforms for Differently Abled, Language Learning and Ensuring the Comprehensiveness of Education and Child health. secondary and tertiary education. Despite all the development in the education space, the region has a lot of scope to grow in terms of bridging the gap between skill development and job market.

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3rd digitalLEARNING School Leadership Summit 2016 The 3rd digitalLEARNING School Leadership Summit 2016 intended to deliberate and initiate a dialogue on the changing paradigms around the emerging themes of Learning Outcomes, Outreach and Access, Vocationalisation, Examination Systems, Teacher Education, ICT Interventions for New Knowledge, Pedagogies and approaches for STEM education, Standards, Assessments and School Management systems, Learning Platforms for Differently Abled and Language Learning and Ensuring the Comprehensiveness of Education and Child health. The objective of the summit was to find out the answers to the questions like how to evaluate the technology outcome implemented in schools, how to initiate critical thinking and what is personalised learning?

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1st digitalLearning School Leadership Summit 2014

The digitalLearning School Leadership Summit 2015 was organised to understand the vision of teachers for ensuring better future for children. Another important objective of the summit was to identify the role of technology in creating excellence in school education. Technology has changed the whole scenario in school education. Many schools have already started using technological advancements like smart boards for making the education, entertaining and easy. Now, information is just a click away.

The digitalLearning School Leadership Summit 2014 was made up of four key sessions led by renowned educational leadership researchers. It covered many different and important aspects of educational leadership in the 21st Century. The different sessions were designed to cater to various stake holders involved in education at different levels. Principals of around 200 top schools of India participated in School Leadership Summit 2014. The delegates comprised many school leaders, educators and researchers from Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools. It was meant understand the challenges of educational transformation and why they persisted over time.

Impact of globalisation on schools, need for visionary schools in present scenario and Life Skill Education were among the important themes of the Summit.

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Key Themes What are the best practices being employed today?

Exploring Innovation in School Education

Digital Transformation of Classrooms Smart Curriculum & Assessment

Join us at Elets 6th School Leadership Summit on 21 April 2018 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The School Leadership Summit is Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier platform for networking and knowledge-sharing to discuss good practices & tap growth opportunities in the education ecosystem.

How is technology positively impacting learning? Interesting ways of knowledge creation & sharing Impact on teaching & learning

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Mission 2020 for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Is Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) likely to be extended to 2020? Going by available information, it is likely. The Education for All movement of the Government of India, operational since 2000-2001, is aimed at the universalisation of elementary education in a time bound manner, writes T Radhakrishna of Elets News Network (ENN).

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Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVSs) has initiated a pilot project for connecting students and their teachers through tablets preloaded with relevant e content to facilitate easy classroom transaction, creation of genuine interest among students and effective learning of the students.

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nitiated by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the programme envisage at developing human capabilities to all children through provision of community-owned quality education in a mission mode. It is a response to the demand for quality basic education all over the country. The Government of India, in 2011-12 fiscal allocated Rs 21,000 crore for this project. In 2015, the funds sharing pattern of SSA was decided to be in the ratio of 60:40 between Centre and States (90:10 for the eigth NorthEastern States and three Himalayan States) with effect from the year 2015-16. The revision has been done in view of the higher devolution of funds to the States from 32% to 42% as recommended by the 14th Finance Commission. Some State Governments namely Bihar, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and West Bengal had raised their concern about interim reduction of the central share of funding in the SSA from 65% to 50%, which has subsequently been rationalized to 60% based on the report of the Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalisation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes. The programme set out with an objective to provide useful and elementary education for all children in the 6-14 age group and to

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bridge social, regional and gender gaps with the active participation of community in the management of schools, among others. As per the goals set in 2015 the programme sought to open new schools in those habitations which do not have schooling facilities and strengthen existing school infrastructure through provision of additional class rooms, toilets, drinking water, maintenance grant and school improvement grants. Key Features • Programme with a clear time frame for universal elementary education • A response to the demand for quality basic education all over the country • An opportunity for promoting social justice through basic education • An expression of political will for universal elementary education across the country • A partnership between the central, state and the local government • An opportunity for states to develop their own vision of elementary education • An effort at effective involving the Panchyati Raj Institutions, school management Committees, village and urban slum level Education Committees, parent’s Teachers’

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Objectives • To provide useful and elementary education for all children in the 6-14 age group • To bridge social, regional and gender gaps with the active participation of community in the management of schools. • To allow children to learn about and master their natural environment in order to develop their potential both spiritually and materially. • To inculcate value-based learning that allows children an opportunity to work for each other’s well being rather than to permit mere selfish pursuits. • To realize the importance of Early Childhood Care and education and looks at the 0-14 age as a continuum. 2017: Education for All Year 2017 has been a yet another landmark year in the field of education as ‘Education For All & Quality Education’ guided policy actions and decisions enabling transformation, that emphasized upon making education Available, Accessible, Affordable and Accountable. Learning Outcomes A frequent criticism against the RTE Act was that it did not adequately focus on issues promoting quality education in schools. Therefore, in a landmark step, the Rules to the RTE Act were amended in February 2017 to include, for the first time, the class wise, subject wise Learning Outcomes till Class VIII, thereby emphasizing the importance of quality education. In this regard, Learning Outcomes for each class in Languages (Hindi, English and Urdu), Mathematics, Environmental Studies, Science and Social Science up to the elementary stage have been developed. These are the basic levels of learning that children should arrive at the end of each class. Subsequently, 21 States and UTs, including Jammu and Kashmir, have incorporated the Learning Outcomes in their State Rules, while the remaining States have initiated the process, it is expected that this will be completed by the end of this year. All the States and UTs have translated the

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Learning Outcomes document in their regional languages, and they are circulating these to all the teachers, and also providing them with the requisite training. Posters for display of Learning Outcomes on the schools along with leaflets on Learning Outcomes for reference of parents have been developed and circulated to all States and UTs. An amount of Rs 91.20 crore has been released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India to all States and UTs for printing the Learning Outcomes documents, the Posters and the leaflets in regional languages, and for their distribution. National Achievement Survey 2017-18 National Achievement Survey (NAS) which was earlier based on textbook content is now a competency based evaluation. As compared to only 4.43 lakh students who were earlier tested across Classes 3, 5 and 8, this time around 22 lakh students from around 1,10,000 schools across 700 districts of India (including rural and urban) were assessed in the year 201718 (November 13, 2017) making it one of the largest sample surveys of student learning achievement. This survey is an improvement over the previous cycles of NAS as it will be completed in the one full academic year. It will reflect the scores of the students and will be able to suggest academic intervention in the same academic year. District wise Result will be generated within 2 months of test conduction. NAS Reporting will show if the students’ learning levels are as per the learning outcomes of a particular grade. It will also look for association of school, teacher and students’ background variables with students’ achievements while analysing the data. Through NAS 2017-18, it will be for the first time that the teachers will have a tool to understand what exactly the child should be learning in various classes, how to teach this through activities and how to measure and ensure that children have reached the required level. This will also help agencies at the District, State, and National level to conduct achievement surveys and assess the health of the system to improve upon the policy directives. Adding to this, for the first time there will be detailed district-specific report cards for all the districts in the country.

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Karnataka: Registration process for SSLC goes digital The Karnataka Secondary Education and Examination Board (KSEEB) has switched to digital mode from its manual process of updating student details. With the SSLC exams due in March/April 2018, the State board schools across the state, are now updating student information onto the student tracking system (STS), writes T Radhakrishna of Elets News Network (ENN).

he STS was implemented by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Karnataka (SSA Karnataka) to record details of over 1 crore children across the state. While collection of this data was completed sometime ago, most of the information is already pre-filled onto the STS database. For SSLC registrations, the operator would only have to add the photograph of each student and take the digital signature as well as add the school code while submitting applications to KSEEB.

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An ambitious Student Tracking System, in association with Infosys Foundation, is implemented. The programme is aimed at monitoring the academic progress, dropout rate and other aspects of about 45 lakh students from classes One to 10 in all government schools. Each student is assigned a unique identification number and progress is monitored to improve the academic performance and prevent dropouts, according to Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait.

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The SSA Karnataka started this online registration process in which the government will avoid duplicate document submission and fraudulent businessmen opening schools. The online registration process of Karnataka Students Tracking System Portal is completely online. This online registration process will run every year. However, the registration process will be done through the online at sts.karnataka.gov.in. The government also released a draft of fees structure for all schools. After the completion of registration process, all the schools will have to give the detail of students and teaching staff of the school.

Online Registration All the schools will have to follow some easy steps to complete online registration on Students Tracking System Portal. First of all, the applicant school will have to visit sts.karnataka.gov.in official website. The applicant will have to click on “Registration” link. After that clicking on the registration link, a registration form will appear before applicant. On the registration page, the applicant will have to fill all the required information of the school. After filling all the necessary details finally click on “Submit” button. Here is the Fees Structure of Karnataka Schools. The government

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has set up a fees structure for all the schools in Karnataka. All the schools need to remember, the Government of Karnataka has mentioned that this registration process of schools is mandatory. Each student in the State will have a ninedigit unique code that will be tagged to his or her academic life under the School Tracking System. The number will be linked to data on their academic performance, details of schools, scholarships, and awards received. Data pertaining to nearly 1.01 crore schoolchildren — in government, aided and private schools — enrolled in classes 1 to 10 will be ready as part of an ambitious exercise by the Department of Primary and Secondary Education to map students’ academic record. The number can be keyed in by the school headmaster to access the records of the student. The biggest benefit of the tracking system, department sources said, was in stemming the dropout rate. It will also help in streamlining incentives that a child avails of and reducing duplication. PC Jaffer, Commissioner for Public Instruction, told media that the system would capture data in real time and help track a child’s academic performance. Officials could use the data to make inferences and intervene wherever necessary, and improve the quality of government schools.

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The biggest benefit of the tracking system, department sources said, was in stemming the dropout rate. It will also help in streamlining incentives that a child avails of and reducing duplication.

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CSTS Project Inspiring Other States A unique project titled Child / Student Tracking System (CSTS), being implemented by the Department of Education (Primary and Secondary), Government of Karnataka, is turning into a model for other States to emulate. This project is designed, developed and implemented by Ahmedabad-based ICT Infracon and totally sponsored by Infosys Foundation. P Panneervel, CEO of ICT Infracon and a retired Additional Chief Secretary of Government of Gujarat, shared the significance of the project and its objectives, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN). How and when was the idea of CSTS conceptualised? What is the signicance of the project?

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The project of Child / Student Tracking System is likely to be an ideal tool for the Government of Karnataka, in implementing Right to Education Law effectively.

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In one of the meetings of IIM, Ahmedabad chaired by the then chairman KV Kamath, a question was asked by former Minister of HRD, Government of India, who was part of the meeting that is it possible to track every child in India? Mr Kamath replied yes, recommending my name as he already knew me that I had implemented several eGovernance projects in the Government of Gujarat and all are working successfully even today. The former Minister, who was happy with the positive reply from Mr Kamath, suggested this project can be supported by Infosys Foundation and the first pilot can be done in Karnataka.

That is how the idea of CSTC started two years or more ago. This is a very significant project as it connects every child in the country. Right to Education Law has been enacted, but the responsibility to enroll the children who attain the age of five, in the nearest school is left to the parents. The responsibility of enrollment in real sense lies with the State Governments. Despite all the efforts, it is very difficult to ensure 100% enrollment. Dropout rate of India is one of the highest in the world. Perhaps, the CSTS will support the concerned departments in mitigating the challenges faced in dropouts is a handy in not only tracking child but also support the enrollment.

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The project is also known as District Information System for Education (DISE).

What are the primary objective of the project? The main objective of the CSTS is to track each and every child in the relevant age group throughout the State through Birth Registration. For example if the goal is to universalize 9 year basic education in the state, the relevant age group children to be tracked in the CSTS is 0-15 considering 6th year as official entry age to grade 1. The CSTS will create a database of all children in the age group of 0-15 years in the state, with the details of each and every child such unique Child Code, his/her name, date of birth, sex, educational status, reason for non-attendance /Out-of- School and data on other related key variables by particular reference period of the year.

Which are the purposes the database of CSTS can be used, if any? The database generated will enable the state government to identify village/habitation wise

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children in the relevant age group for enrollment and find out reasons for every out-of-School child in order to design appropriate intervention strategy. Also track academic progress and health records of every child in every school. The database can be used for the following purposes by the concerned authorities. • Dropout rate • Student Performance record/health record • Diagnosing several other aspects of participations and retention of children in basic education. • State/District/Taluka/Village Wise Student Tracking • Monitoring the educational status of every child in terms of never enrolled out of school / vocational Institute / higher & technical

How the support system of the project and its modules were developed? The system is designed to provide support system that enables government institutes to apply appropriate interventions and deploy required resources (asset management) that provide adequate environment to every child to have their preferred line of education for gainful employment. Finally the project at the state level will lead the state to achieve better “human development index”. The CSTS is equivalent to an Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP system for a corporate firm. Student tracking system (STS) is also a Web-based application designed to introduce a conducive and structured information exchange environment for integrating students, parent, teachers and administration of a school or college. Implement the centralized web based application which will be hosted at Central Location. The application can be accessed directly through internet and intranet by using a pre-defined web link. The application can also be accessed through a link within any web site/ system already exists or hosted by any Government Department/ School/University. In this case, a specific URL will be communicated to the respective University/ College so that they can incorporate the link into their web site/system. Following modules will be in the scope of ICT: • Birth Registration/Survey/link between school and village records • Students unique id PIN generation to monitor life time academic mobility • Attendance Monitoring- Dropout-Link to students ID-PIN List – Parents Status • Parent Migration

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• Infant Health/mortality • Sibling Care • Bring Back dropouts to main stream by special coaching-monitoring • Student Academic Records-Promotion, Awards etc. • School Wise Children Enrolled • School Wise Teachers requirement • Asset Management • Student Health Management • List of Students Passed from Primary School/ Secondary/Higher Secondary School • Mapping of Primary/Secondary/Higher Secondary Schools • School Wise Enrollment Data • Actual requirement of the Primary/Secondary/ Higher Secondary School • Mapping of Technical Institute as per government norms • Child Labor Abolition • Developing MIS and analytics for monitoring the usage and other administrative purposes

What is the current status of the project? The project has been rolled out all over the State. The system has been installed in State Data Center. Data migration for the year 2014-15 and 2015-16 has been done. Complete data base by name for more than 1 crore children has been created. For the new academic year commencing from June 2016 enrollment in the whole state has been done. All promotions, transfer certificates, academic records and other verifications will be only through this system. The system is designed developed with Women and Child Welfare department to track 0 to 5 yrs. From the academic year 2017-18, the children will be enrolled from Anganwadi to Primary School (First standard). This system will monitor the student welfare schemes, asset management of schools, scheme implementations, attendance etc., on online. This system is also linked with Aadhaar.

The project is now a successful. To whom do you give credit to? The CSTS is successful because of the valuable inputs and support and cooperation of following officers, including Ajay Seth, IAS, then Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Education (Primary and Secondary), Government of Karnataka, PC Jaffer, IAS, then State Project Officer of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Purushottam Kumar Rao of the Department.

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Safari Kid: Enabling Children in Perfect Learning Environment The Safari Kid believes that classrooms should be very stimulating space, facilitating multiple possibilities of action. The environment and the educational practices in classroom must coexist in meaningful ways that are related to students and their potential, says Jitendra Karsan, CEO – Safari Kid, India, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

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meaning to everything that students experience and explore with new concepts, without fear of being wrong. This approach is based on games that follow instructions and learning objectives, instead of those of “free play” (even though both are key for the intellectual and social development of the child) and it is supported by other methodologies like Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Emmi Pikler, Waldorf, Howard Gardner, etc. As a result, gamification shows us a child’s intellectual development process. To take theory into a practice, for example, when it comes to identifying and explaining the areas of geometric figures, we take the children and calculate areas in the playground. Experience and scientific research shows us that students can learn any concept presented to them as long as we adapt them to their maturational age. Other methodological strategies that are incorporated into the SK curriculum include interdisciplinary projects, problem-based learning, mental maps and thinking routines.

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At Safari Kid, we understand that classrooms must be a very stimulating space that facilitates and suggests multiple possibilities of action. The environment and the educational practices in the classroom must coexist in real, meaningful ways that are closely related to students and their potential. Choosing wide, well differentiated, easily accessible and specific spaces is the key to optimising the teaching-learning process in the classroom. That is why our spaces encourage creativity, public speaking, working on arts and exploring on different projects and themes. Our spaces allow and encourage joint assignments (like assemblies and dramatisations), always reminding the educational value of autonomy. Our spaces invite them to make hypotheses, build fantasies and narrate new experiences. This way, children’s imagination is not only enhanced but favoured from such rich environment, where discussions and reflections on what is known and what is new to be learnt is valued.

Along with their teachers, parents are partners in developing a child’s learning process. Therefore, effective, constant and personalised communication is crucial for Safari Kid. The way in which we approach this relationship is by creating the role of the Parent Relationship Manager, someone that closely follows every child´s needs and their development. Their task is to share the documentation of the children’s learning process and their performance along with our teachers. Parents are invited to witness their children’s work through activities held during the school year, including sports days, art exhibitions and special celebrations or holidays: the classroom becomes a space where knowledge and growth is shared and celebrated. Also, parents get access to the daily activities and assignments performed by their children through the Safari Kid app, which is updated with pictures on a regular basis.

What best practices, at par with global standards, are followed at Safari Kid to ensure students’ safety? Another of Safari Kid’s principles as a programme is to ensure the safety and caring of our children, their parents, and our employees. We have developed our own operations manual with high standards on safeguarding based on the best practices in childcare of different countries. Each child is treated as an individual, with a natural process of development and needs to be attended. Teachers and managers are trained and ready to identify if any child has special (social or physical) needs that must be taken into consideration. Along with their training, all our teachers and employees go through a very rigorous interviewing process where their capabilities, backgrounds and references are checked to be up to our highest standards. Everyday, routines and aspects like the tracking of each meal had at the nursery, their toileting details and medication schedules are noted and journaled. This documentation, though confidential, is available to be shared with parents on a regular basis with all the detailed and written feedback available to them in the classroom, waiting to be shared also in individual or group meetings.

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The Millennium School – Making Learning A Meaningful Experience The Millennium School has a holistic system, including that of assessment of students learning in multiple ways. It has been created to serve as a healthy combination of formative and summative assessments and also for the physical and emotional readiness of the child to learn, says Rita Kaul, Director, The Millennium Schools, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN). also to apply them to learn better.

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The Millennium Learning System is a multifaceted learning system that is based on the principles such as: • Skill Based – students during the course of learning build subject specific skills and thus they acquire a thorough understanding and mastery of concepts • Sequential – the teachers guide the students to construct their learning sequentially as they move from the known to the unknown • VAK based – In MLS we believe that children learn best when they are exposed to learning in their learning style (Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic). MLS ensures that children are taught according to their learning style • Mapped to Developmental Milestones – We understand that children at different age groups have different learning needs and capabilities and hence our curriculum approach is mapped as per the age of the child. For our pre-primary learners we follow the play way approach, for the primary learners we have an activity and project-based learning methodology, to challenge our middle-school learners and to harness their developing cognitive capabilities, we follow the brain-based methodology and for the senior school learners the methodology evolves around developing higher order thinking and decision- making skills.

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How important is research and development to boost learning among students? In order to be relevant, classrooms must meet the future needs of the students and must prepare them for the world of tomorrow. Hence, the traditional approach to teach may not be always the best suited. An active Research and Development team that keeps adding to teachers’ repertoire of teaching tools and strategies to suit the learning needs of children will make sure that children are equipped to face the future with the requisite skills and knowledge.

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enhancement programme to help children to excel and reach their learning potential. The focus in The Millennium Schools is on learning and its application and in helping children to realise their potential and not just on scoring and ranking.

What is vision and mission of the school for future? The Millennium School is committed to nurture the inherent potential and talent of each child, creating lifelong learners who will be the leaders of tomorrow. With parents as our partners, we aspire to create global citizens who are innovative and have a strong sense of values. Mission: The mission of The Millennium School is to nurture a culture where students are valued as individuals and allowed to explore their creative talents. We believe that the positive self concept is benefited through academic success and it is our goal to keep raising the bar .We move forward with skills and confidence to be successful in our highly competitive society. Our school environment has been created with the focus on “Show the pride in everything you do”. With parents as partners we have followed a positive direction.

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The mission of The Millennium School is to nurture a culture where students are valued as individuals and allowed to explore their creative talents.

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What Holds for Education in 2018

Neev Finance – Lending Support for Educational Needs Neev Finance intends to be the most preferred education finance lender in the country having presence in 50+ cities catering to at least 30,000+Intuitions in next five years, says Rishi Kedia Co-founder and CEO, Neev Finance, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

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Neev has collaborated with 300+ educational institutions wherein students studying at these institutes are being financed by Neev. We convert the entire year cost of education into monthly EMIs which creates a convenience and affordability among the parents.

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What is the scope for a Non Banking Finance Company (NBFC) like Neev in the education sector of the country? The Indian education market is over $140 billion market. It is extremely untapped as far as financing is concerned. Not even 1% of the market is currently being serviced by banks or NBFCs. Financing is required for each and every aspect of education right from Preschool courses to Post Graduate programmes. Skill development and vocational training is another area which is again untapped as far as financial assistance is concerned. Once a proper ecosystem is developed around education financing, it can certainly be a multi-billion dollar opportunity.

What mechanism has been devised by Neev to help parents in paying the education fees for pre-schools, schools, colleges, tuition centres and other academic centres? Neev has collaborated with 300+ educational institutions wherein students studying at these institutes are being financed by Neev. We convert the entire year cost of education into monthly EMIs which creates a convenience and affordability among the parents to ensure that the finance does not become a problem for these parents.

To provide financial assistance to parents has the company tied up with the schools, colleges and other institutions? Please shed some light on your clients.

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As on date we are tied up with more than 300 + Educations Institutions. Few of them are Mount Litera Zee School - Chain of Schools, Delhi Public School - Chain of Schools, Orchids The International School - Chain of Schools, Gowtham Model School - Chain of Schools, Edify School - Chain of Schools, ITM University, Raisoni University, Seacom University and many more.

It is a new concept. What challenges are being faced and how are those challenges handled by the organisation? Yes, it’s being a new concept, the initial days were really challenging. Making School owners convince about the model was really a difficult job. While they were extremely happy with the Model, they were initially skeptical about Neev execution capabilities. However, once we showed our performance in one Academic Year cycle, there has been no looking back since then. Now most of our new tie ups are reference based or Inbound . As far as convincing parents for availing the loan, the same has not been a difficult task since a big pain point of parents that we are solving.

What is your vision and mission for the future? We want to be the most preferred Education finance lender in the country with presence in 50+ cities catering to at least 30,000+Intuitions in next five years. We want to touch upon every aspect of education i.e from Pre KG to PG. Academic to Skill development.

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