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EDITORIAL Delineating the Educational Innovations

In the present digital age, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionised every sphere of our life, including the education ecosystem. The impact is visible in every sector: preschool, school, higher, and skill & vocational training, where the teaching-learning practices, curriculum and assessment have incorporated the latest and innovative digital tools for improved outcomes.

Adoption of these technological innovations is helping the Indian education sector to stay relevant in present times. In line with this, Our cover story – “Robot Assisted Learning: The Future Ahead” highlights the growing dominance of another technological innovation – Robot in the field of education.

It briefly explains how the future of education is going to be Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based, keeping sync with the best traditional educational practices.

One of our special stories – “Government’s Far-reaching Reforms to Improve Quality and Access to Education” has highlighted the various initiatives implemented by the Government of India in last few years to keep the country’s education sector at par to the global standards. The story highlights how the Government schemes related to technological advancements, improved curriculum, better infrastructure, teachers’ training and others are paving way to transform the Indian education landscape holistically.

Another special story: “Campus Placement in India: An Overview” describes about the placement trends and practices adopted by the colleges. Nowadays, placement being the major factor to decide a college’s brand value, a good placement strategy also helps students to start their professional career without much hassle.

The issue also carries the interview of Dr B Janardhan Reddy, Secretary, School and Higher Education Department, Government of Telangana, along with other key stakeholders of education sector who have shared useful insights about the practices adopted by their organisation to impart holistic education across the country.

The comprehensive reports of the 10th School Leadeship Summit Lucknow and 11th School Leadership Summit Chandigarh are a collection of valuable inputs shared by the top-notch policymakers, eduleaders, and stakeholders linked to school education during the summits.

We hope the wide variety of articles, reports, and other write-ups in the magazine would help our esteemed readers gain invaluable insights into the Indian education system.

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Robot Assisted Learning: The Future Ahead As the computer sparked revolutionary changes in learning environments, it is likely that robots will also bring changes in education. It is important to understand various approaches from the perspective of pedagogy and student learning, observes Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN).

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It is likely that the use of robots in the classroom will help students to explore diverse career paths.

Moreover, robotics is a perfect way to show students that engineering and IT can be fun by making abstract knowledge concrete.

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ducational utilisation of robotics has seen a considerable worldwide growth in last few years. In line with this, several attempts have been made to introduce robotics in school education from kindergarten to high secondary school (K-12) in subjects other than science, mathematics and technology.

It is likely that the use of robots in the classroom will help students to explore diverse career paths. Moreover, robotics is a perfect way to show students that engineering and IT can be fun by making abstract knowledge concrete.

Working with robots enhances creative problem solving techniques. These machines also help in improving basic communication and interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate, and convey complex ideas to a fellow students or colleagues.

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What is a robot?

Robots can be defined as programmable machines or gadgets that can be used in place of humans to perform a range of tasks by executing input commands. As the world looks forward to a fullfledged Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is expected that the robots will soon have more advanced features.

For example: Alexa, a voice bot by Amazon, has already made headlines with its ability to learn new skills through its sound interface. Humanoids like Hanson Robotic’s Sofia are another pointer to how the world is moving quickly into a future of robots.

In fact, the pilot tests that have been carried out on a number of modern creations reinforce the message that robotic capabilities will closely resemble to those of humans.

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It is important to note that innovation in school education should not be limited to introduction and access to a new technology. Education innovation is a broad term that includes appropriate educational philosophy, curriculum and learning environment among others. These factors are important for any educational innovation to become successful. Similarly, introduction of robots should be considered as introduction of new tool. It is the teaching-learning/pedagogical practices that will determine the learning impact coming from robotic applications.

How far has the development of robotics come?

Modern robotics began in the early 1950s, when George C Devol created a robot called “Unimate”.

The machine was programmable, a concept that still applies to modern techniques. Joseph Engleberger, a businessman and engineer, bought Unimate in the 1960s and began mass production of robots. To date, Joseph Engleberger is referred to as the father of the modern robotics industry.

Today, advanced robotics continues to surprise those of us who couldn’t have fathomed the existence of AI bots like Sofia, Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant. But thanks to tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others that continue to set the pace, this sector is something to marvel at.

Early developments of robotics in Academia Academia has been at the centre of robotics worldwide for many years now. In 1958, researcher Charles Rosen led the Stanford

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Research Institute in developing Shakey – An industrial-scale robot with more advanced features. For example, it could move around a room, perceive its surroundings, and even respond to them to some extent. Today, robots like Milo and ASK NAO are continuing to bring the world into a future of artificial intelligence.

It is observed that the use of robotics has simplified complicated medical procedures, made dangerous construction projects safer and exploration of our universe possible. On similar lines, application of robotics and simulators to education can change the way students learn that ultimately will lead towards knowledge-based society.

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Robotics in Education allows students to learn STEM disciplines in different ways and facilitate students’ skills and attitudes for analysis and operation of robots. Educational robotics strengthens and supports students’ skills developing their knowledge through the creation, design, assembly, and operation of robots.

Robotics in the classroom helps children and young students with particular requirements to develop their own personal learning experience, accessing information and educational contents

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through a tailor-made path.

Robots in school education can also represent a helpful solution for those students who cannot attend school. Robots can be used to bring students into the classroom that otherwise might not be able to attend.

Higher Education Many careers require specialised knowledge in delicate practices, specifically in the realm of healthcare. When receiving a medical education, many students find benefits in the use of robotics. When learning to perform complicated medical procedures, a human subject isn’t feasible, so educators are employing the use of robots as stand-ins. Robots can be created and programmed to give off all indications of human life, including breath and heartbeat. Their use can also be seen in such procedures as injections, surgeries and even delivering children.

Special Education Students with special requirements are reaching new levels of learning through the use of robotics in the classroom. With these technologies children with autism are learning communication and social skills and students with developmental issues and attention disorders are learning focus. Individuals with

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severe physical disabilities are also offered a constant companion and health monitoring system - all through the use of robotics. Robots can be programmed to suit each individual child’s need, offering special education in a much simpler, accessible format.

Why Teach Robotics in Educational Institutes?

Creative thinking Not many fields of knowledge incorporate creativity and fun simultaneously. Studies have shown that robotics achieves both. In fact, students love to partake in activities in which they have full control, something that is possible with robotics. And when learners are able to do cool stuff, they want to develop more features.

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Hands-on learning activities enhance concentration and attention levels, because the more students learn physical skills, the more they want to continue being in the lesson.

Preparedness With advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), driverless cars, and spacecrafts taking shape every day, the present generation of students need to be more prepared for technological changes than everbefore.

Programming skills As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in homes, schools, and offices, a little programming knowledge will help everyone understand how these bots work.

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Robotics is gaining momentum in many educational institutes across the world. It’s important to note here that teachers who administer courses in this area should advanced knowledge in programming and other skills as it will help students reaping huge benefits, not just for the present, but also for the foreseeable future.

Here are seven areas in which learning about robotics or through at educational institutes can benefit students.

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Robotics incorporates a range of skills, and thus promotes a learning environment for people with different talents. If properly harnessed, it also promotes a culture of teamwork.

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Creating and programming bots is challenging.

However, working through frustration helps students develop a never-give-up attitude. It imparts determination, which is crucial for any technological or scientific undertaking.

Teamwork Robotics incorporates a range of skills, and thus promotes a learning environment for people with different talents. If properly harnessed, it also promotes a culture of teamwork. It can even be used to help students who might struggle to learn in traditional classroom settings – for example, the ASK NAO robot was developed to help autistic students, and its main goal is to bring everyone on board through modern educational-technology approaches in academia.

Fun Learning about robotics is fun and as designs continue to improve how, it will only become more so!

Robots have already made their mark in education and will continue to do so. However, how useful or potentially harmful robots can be to education will depend more on how educators and students choose to use them than on the technology itself. Educators must embrace the latest skills and knowledge for effective teaching.

That’s why they should embrace robotics, which is breaking new ground in learning methodologies around the world.

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‘Why India Needs a New Education Policy?’

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hy India needs a new education policy? As history is replete with examples of a broken education system and if we wish to achieve sustainable development, we need to transform the education system,” said Dr Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Member, National Education Policy Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

He was speaking at the World Education Summit organised in November 2017 in Dubai. The Summit was organised in partnership with the Knowledge and Human Development Agency (KHDA), Dubai. It brought together top decision-makers from Government and public sector for exchange of ideas on best practices, trends, challenges and growth opportunity in education ecosystem.

Describing about the importance of education in a nation’s development, Dr Gupta said, “Some of the policymakers believe that education and health are the areas where we will focus on only after the country becomes developed. It is not like that.

If the public is neither healthy nor educated, it is very difficult to imagine development of any country. Economic growth without improvement in education and health cannot facilitate development.”

Citing the examples of Singapore and Medellin — a city in Colombia, Dr Gupta stated that the one of the major reasons behind the 180 degree transformation of the aforesaid places is the good quality education.

Explaining about the growing demand of technology across the world, Dr Gupta stated, “Digitisation and Automation will drastically change the education and employment scenario.”

In this context, he also referred a study by McKinsey Global Institute that suggests that in coming future few occupations will be fully automated whereas the 60% of all the occupations across the world have a chance of 30% automation.

Describing about the flaws of the education system, Dr Gupta referred Charles Darwin and Gregor Johann Mendel who used to be sailor and priest respectively. He said, “If the two eminent scientists have to follow the education system of bachelors’ degree and ahead, they will never be to achieve that they had.”

“We need to understand the importance of technology and also need to leverage the same through our education policy so that we can generate more job opportunities for our students,” he added.

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1968. 18 years later, we implemented the second education policy which got revised in 1992. 25 years later to that we are taking about drafting a new education policy.

Describing about the changes that have been witnessed and that India as a country needs to focus on, he said, “Since the last National Education Policy, India has liberalised its economy, India’s population has witnessed a massive growth of 65%, there is a paradigm shift in every sector globally, Signing of the Washington Accord, and most India needs to add one million jobs every month. These all are the factors that need to be focused on in the National Education Policy (NEP).”

As the New Education Policy of India is likely to be implemented in few months, Dr Gupta’s above speech was quite a bit relevant in today’s scenario. There are only speculations about the various norms that may or may not be the part of the education policy.

The education policy must include three very important aspects: Incorporating processes to be in sync with the global trends, effective skill training to boost employability and effective implementation of technology to improve teachinglearning processes.

The draft NEP was submitted to the new HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on May 31, following which it was made public for feedback and suggestion.

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‘OUR MAIN FOCUS IS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF EDUCATION’ Starting from June 2019, a massive campaign will be launched to increase class attendance in schools, as in each class quality of education depends on the knowledge from the previous class. This will be a non-financial intervention that would be taken up by involving parents, NGOs, media, self-help groups (SHGs), says Dr B Janardhan Reddy, Secretary, School and Higher Education Department, Government of Telangana, in an interview with Sudheer Goutham B of Elets News Network (ENN).

What are your plans to improve quality of education in the state?

I fully concur with Indian economist Amartya Sen’s observation that physical absence of students in government schools is rampant due to poverty, ill-health and festivals among other reasons. Physical absenteeism leads to mental absenteeism which results in poor quality of education.

As per a study by an annual certification agency, ACER, in the government schools of India, a Class 10 student has knowledge equivalent to a student of 5th standard and a Class 5 student has the knowledge standards of a Class 1 student. Even an international agency’s (PROBE) study in Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh as also in other countries, the same results were found to be true. In their ranking on quality of education, India stood 71st.

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What are the initiatives you would take up for school infrastructures, education access in the remote areas and girl child education in the states?

The Central and state governments’ efforts in the last few decades to increase number of schools and class rooms, toilets, computer and science labs, sports facilities among other infrastructure have resulted in adequate number of schools and access to education even in small hamlets. Even the girl and boy student ratio is in good numbers at enrollment stage and also at various stages of

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school education. Unlike earlier, the girl student ratio in the schools has improved.

What are the reforms you are planning to bring in the education systems right from the foundations?

Since we have increased the expenditure in education; the main focus is to bring about the improvement in quality of education. We intend to make students feel that they are part of the system. The intelligence quotient varies from one student to the other; some may be good at academics, some in sports, music and other extracurricular activities but average in academics.

Hence, the group committees of students I am forming would be for five different purposes with defined roles and responsibilities. One committee would be on attendance monitoring, second on academic monitoring, third on science and technology, fourth on health & hygiene and fifth on sports and culture. After a period of one to two months, the students of one committee will be transferred to another committee. This initiative will ensure that at a given stage each student will be part of one committee. This way the student would feel a part of the system. For instance, the student in attendance committee would visit the houses of absentee students and counsel them and their parent. In this process, the student becomes a teacher and will develop a sense of responsibility and bring the change in him or herself. A student of Attendance Committee would see that he is not an absentee. Similarly, the student of Health & Hygiene Committee would maintain hygiene conditions. Not following the norms and conditions, he or she would be questioned by their conscience or by others. This will improve their participation and performance

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12,000 crore directly and Rs 2,403.76 crore in the form of scholarships and other ways. The state government spends around Rs 50,359 per student in government school per annum and Rs 1,00,000 per student in residential schools.

Telangana state has the highest number of residential schools as it is committed to provide quality education to the students from the poor financial backgrounds. But how do we get the value for the money spent and improve the quality of education is our major focus.

Starting from June 2019, we will launch a massive campaign in the state to increase class attendance in schools, as in each class quality of education depends on the knowledge from the previous class. This will be a non-financial intervention that we would take up by involving parents, NGOs, media, self-help groups (SHGs) headed by government agencies involved in elimination of poverty in urban and rural areas.

We had detailed discussion on this with these agencies of SHGs. Over one lakh SHGs would be involved in this programme to sensitise the poor on consequences of not attending the school classes.

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irrespective of their intelligence quotient. Many students feel inferior given their illiterate parental background, less IQ, not able to understand what is being taught in the class, and hence they avoid the classes at the slightest available opportunity.

The above mentioned reforms would bring in significant improvement.

What are your plans in place for educators to bring reforms in the education system and improve education quality?

Usually the teachers in government schools are the most qualified and meritorious as they are brought into the government system after intense efforts and thorough examination methods. For instance, recently the Telangana State Public Service Commission has recruited over 7,000 members out of 2,77,374 applicants who were merits in their graduates and post-graduate studies and also could secure top ranks in certain national and state level tests. Basically, there is no mystery about the potential of teachers in government schools. However, the general impression is that they do not contribute as much as they are supposed to once they enter into the government system. Their potential to contribute to the education system is hidden. I plan to bring in certain exercise in the work system that would encourage them to love their work or jobs and deliver the best. These exercise and methods I introduced in GHMC and previous departments that I headed and yielded best results. It

mainly involves the reminder stickers at their workstations to love their jobs and introspection to improve the education system. Monitoring and biometric systems on working hours of educators would not help much in bringing the change.

Most of your initiatives are about bringing the reforms at the primary and school level education. What are your plans for Higher Education?

In our analysis, it is found that the quality of education at the research, post graduate, graduate, intermediate and school level education has an organic link with the foundation of its previous level of education. Recently, I happened to interact with the directors, and teaching staff at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT).

They had to tell that the knowledge foundation of the student streams, (required to excel in the research education) coming from universities to the research institutes are not up to the mark.

When I had review meetings and interacted with vice chancellors and teaching staff of universities on the matter, they had to say the same thing for the education foundation at intermediate education level, and intermediate education staff had to say similar things about the school level education standards. Eventually it is boiling down to the basic foundation of education at school level. However, since the school education, higher education and research level studies come under my limits; we will be taking up holistic approach for the solution as the problems are different

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In your stint as the GHMC Commissioner, you also tried to involve the students of school and other educational institutions in Hyderabad for the Swachh Bharat Mission. Now, with all the educational institutions from the primary to research level education under you, how do you see the opportunity for cleanliness campaigns?

Since you mentioned about waste management, a lot can be done with regards to sanitation.

There are over 38,000 government and private schools in Telangana. Furthermore, over 11 universities and several intermediate and degree colleges with over 10 lakh students studying in them are functioning in the state. Now, we can universalise the cleanliness campaign. Earlier, I was struggling to involve the students in the mission of cleanliness.

It is my duty and obligation to indoctrinate the principals of ‘Swacchata’ in the students and make them ‘Swachh Doots’ (cleanliness campaigners).

Across the government schools and educational institutions, I am forming exclusive committees of students in each class on five different subjects. One of the committees will be on health & hygiene, which will have a group of five students. For instance, 30 students in each class will be part of different committees and one of the committees would be on Swachata to be called as health committee.

These committees will ensure cleanliness in class rooms, school, their individual houses and also at least 10 houses in their neighbourhood.

After two to three months of training, the members of one committee will be transferred to another committee. So, by end of the year, all the students will become Swachh Dhoots.

As an education secretary, I can take up the cleanliness campaign not just in Greater Hyderabad but also across the state. I tried this earlier as the GHMC Commissioner and was partly successful in my efforts.

What is the integral link you see between ‘Swachhata’ and quality of education?

In one of the researches on Indian education,

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it was found that on any given day, 33 percent of students and 20 percent of teachers in government schools are found absent. Out of 365 days in a year, 220 are working days. And in those working days, about 50 percent of the time students and teachers do not come across eye-toeye. Even in those teacher-student contact days there would be festivals and elections among other distractions.

It has been estimated that out of 365 days in a year only for about 50-55 days students and teachers are together in the class rooms. There are varied reasons for absenteeism. One of the main reasons is ill-health of either students or the teacher. About 50 countries across the globe have eradicated most of the diseases which we continue to encounter and suffer from like pneumonia, dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid among other communicable diseases, which are caused due to unhygienic practices and passed on through contaminated water, air or touch.

Through sensitisation drives on health and cleanliness, the downsides can be dealt with effectively resulting in improved class room attendance, education and of course decreased financial distress caused to the families of students and teachers due to health ailments.

Waste Management and cleanliness has been the subject of your passion.

Several of your initiatives as the Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration (CDMA) in this regard have been exemplary and been recognised and adapted nationally.

How do you see the subject education?

Education has always been a subject of my passion ever since the beginning of my career in 1990 and it is still close to my heart today when I have become the Education Secretary for the state. It was purely out of my passion that so far I have visited over 2,000 schools in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and also in other states in India and abroad. As our former president and scientist Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam had said: ‘If you have time, money and other resources invest them in education of children as it will help them shape their lives, become self-sufficient and support their family, friends and the country.’ I believe and live by that philosophy.

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It is my duty and obligation to indoctrinate the principals of ‘Swacchata’ in the students and make them ‘Swachh Doots’ (cleanliness campaigners).

Across the government schools and educational institutions.

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levels of education. We are planning to increase the biometric solutions at various levels, besides digital libraries and classes among other online solutions for the students who miss out classes.

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Government’s farreaching reforms to improve quality and access to education In a bid to provide quality education to all, the Government of India has launched several initiatives in last few years. These initiatives are related to technological advancements, improved curriculum, better infrastructure, teachers’ training and others. Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN) explores about some of these initiatives.

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he Government of India has initiated major educational reforms aimed to improve the quality and access to education across the country. Setting up smart classes in government schools, emphasis on teachers training new premier higher education institutions have been opened across the country, interaction with globally renowned eduleaders, opening new higher education institutes across the country are among many such initiatives that have helped the education sector to better the pedagogical approaches, curriculum and learning outcomes among students.

Few of the initiatives are as follows:

SWAYAM MOOCs Portal: Study Webs of Active learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) is an indigenous Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) portal that provides high quality education - anyone, anytime, anywhere at no cost- has been made operational.

To make easy access of good quality educational content to even remotest part of the country, satellite communication has been used and 32 DTH channels have been made functional, under SWAYAM Prabha programme. So far, more than 1,000 courses have been made available and more than 33 lakh users have registered on this forum.

National Digital Library (NDL): The initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development is one of the largest virtual repositories of learning resources with a single window search facility. With over 15 million digital books and journals, the facility has been used by over 31 lakh learners.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA): It is a new initiative to make use the knowledge base in the higher educational institutions for plugging technology gaps in the rural areas. It will help boosting the technology usage in rural India by customising the same as per local needs.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT): Launched in December, 2014, The scheme is aimed to address the issues of supply of qualified teachers, attracting talent into teaching profession, raising the quality teaching in schools and colleges.

Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN): The initiative launched on 30th November 2015 to garner best international knowledge and experience into the country’s higher education. GIAN is supposed to enable Indian students & faculty to interact with best academic and industry experts from across the world. So far, 1,075 courses have been conducted in which more than 40,000 students

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gained enriched academic inputs and knowledge.

IMPRINT India: It is an effort to direct research in the premier institutions into areas of social relevance.

10 such domains have been identified which could substantially impact the living standards of the rural areas. More than 2,600 research proposals have been submitted by scientists in these areas.

Uchchtar Avishkar Yojana (UAY): The scheme has been launched to promote industry specific needbased research so as to keep up the competitiveness of Indian industry in the global market. It is proposed to invest Rs 250 crores every year on identified projects. The Industry is expected to contribute 25 % of the project cost.

Prime Minister Research Fellows (PMRF): The scheme is launched to support 1000 bright undergraduate students every year, for direct admission in the research programmes in the reputed institutions like IISc, IITs. The fellowship carries a lot of social recognition and it ranges from Rs 70,000 to 80,000 per month for five year period.

Smart India Hackathon: The initiative is to promote innovation in the students by encouraging out of the box solutions for common problems faced by the society at large. In the first edition held in 2017, more than 40,000 students have participated to solve more than 600 problems. In 2018, the scope has been expanded to Hardware area also.

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF): This is the biggest ranking exercise launched in 2015, in which more than 3,500 institutions participated. The first edition of India Rankings 2016 was released in April, 2016. The India Rankings 2018, the 3rd edition, will be released on 3rd April, 2018. The India Rankings is one of the biggest efforts

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for bringing in accountability and transparency in the higher educational institutions. The ranks are released in the various categories of institutions namely Universities, Engineering, Management, Pharmacy etc.

Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA): It has been approved by the Cabinet for creation of a fund with government equity of Rs. 1000 crores, to give a big push for building up robust higher educational institutions. The HEFA would finance the academic and research infrastructure projects through a 10 year loan. It is expected to spend Rs. 1,00,000 crore in next 5 years, for creation of high quality infrastructure in premier education institutions.

Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA): It was launched by the Government of India in March, 2009 envisaging inter-alia provision of a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation and to improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers etc. In 2013, secondary education the schemes of ICT, vocational education, Girls Hostel and IEDSS were subsumed under the umbrella of RMSA. Under the scheme, 12,682 new schools and 37,799 existing schools for strengthening have been sanctioned so far.

E-pathshala: It has been developed by NCERT (National Council for Educational Research and Training) for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials. So far, 3,062 audios and videos, 650 e-books (e-pubs) and 504 flip books have been made available on the portal and mobile app.

Study Webs of Active learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) is an indigenous Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) portal that provides high quality education - anyone, anytime, anywhere at no cost- has been made operational.

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Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group: Sustaining Excellence

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he Jaipuria family has made its presence felt in the education sector for the past 75 years in India. Seth Anandram Jaipuria group has been expanding and now has established many K-12 schools in States like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. We also operate two renowned business schools, Jaipuria Institute of Management and Jaipuria School of Business in Ghaziabad.

The vision and the objective of the founders were to leverage education as the most powerful instrument of empowerment in the independent India. The group brings together a great learning community striving to build independent and responsible global learners. Our learner-centric teaching practices, blending traditional deep-rooted values with the 21st century skills are the gateway to the future. It imbues use of modern resources, developing young minds to think, question and create, encouraging the 3 C’s – Curiosity, Critical thinking and Clarity by continuously integrating leading edge technology with latest pedagogical innovations provides a diverse collaborative platform to our students.

Problem solving through Project-based Learning (PBL), Mutliple Intelligence (MI), STEAM, ATAL Tinkering labs, Robotics, Math Labs, language Labs, Microsoft Education, along with various activities focused on environmental issues and community service

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catering to cognitive, socio-economic and linguistic diversities helps in preparing socially responsible citizens.

Being a proud group which has given seven “All India Toppers” in both its CBSE and ICSE schools in grade X and XII for two consecutive years, with several 100% scorers in various subjects, have proved beyond doubt that our students are upholding our legacy.

However, these results generally do not happen in a day.

These are the outcome of continuous perseverance of all the school stakeholders with a focused objective to excel. Modern society demands high quality teaching and learning from teachers. Understanding that it is crucial to keep teachers knowledge up to date, so they can deliver high quality teaching, we conduct regular faculty development programsmes. The training curriculum is designed to update domain knowledge, subject matter mastery, upgrade skills and provide hands-

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on experience to the teachers under the guidance of experts empanelled with CBSE, NCERT, CIET, NIIT etc.

We have to align our pedagogical practices towards Education 4.0. In order to prepare for it, we must revisit the educational paradigms, and focus on the areas that need rethinking. The teachers are trained to be IT-enabled and we are proud to say that all our schools have Smart classrooms and our school in Lucknow, has been awarded with Microsoft certification. It has the distinction of having a tie up with Japan’s largest on line programming learning service, PROGATE, giving opportunity to learn coding and several languages like Ruby, Python Javascript etc.

Seth Anandram Jaipuria roup believes in shaping its students well for future challenges. This strong idea is embedded in the enrichment of students’ experience through all-round participation and sculpting opportunities in academics, cultural and sports activities, as well as leadership programmes.

Our well balanced curriculum emphasises on co-scholastic activities and encourages every student to learn beyond subjects and brings out social skills, intellectual skills, moral values, which helps in personality development and character building among students. “Sangeet 4 All” has been introduced for the primary classes which has greatly enhanced joyful conceptual learning in literacy and numeracy. The students not only participate enthusiastically in sports, cultural events, library activities, CSR, creative arts etc but have brought laurels by winning awards.

In this global world, opportunities for communication and collaboration have expanded substantially. The schools have stepped up their International Linkage through student exchange programmes, NASA visit, on line learning programmes etc.

Our schools have been conferred with various prestigious awards in diverse fields like innovative curriculum and pedagogical techniques, innovation and global collaboration

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learning, environmental sensitisation, Microsoft certification, ISO certification, ISA, excellence in social and public service, All India Council for Robotics & Automation (AICRA) under the category of “Most Emerging School as Robotics Education Provider” to name a few!

We strongly believe in service with pride, lead with confidence, inspire to impact others and the philosophy that education is the prime contributor to the development of self, an extension of the society and diverse human enterprise. Continuing our commitment to contribute to the society, Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Kanpur, runs a special education programme for the underprivileged.

We also run Charitable Guest Houses in Haridwar, Chitrakoot, Vrindavan and Seth Anandram Jaipuria Eye Hospital, Nawalgarh, Rajasthan.

The Jaipuria family has contributed to the society immensely by planning, constructing and managing the beautiful Ramdarshan Mandir in Chitrakoot. The group leads in contributing towards nation building by joining hands with groups like GOONJ and CRY to help the nation during natural calamities. The students of each school are encouraged and motivated to participate in CSR activities.

The group is committed to expand in the field of quality education and shares a common goal and vision to ‘Empower, Enthuse and Excel’ by helping individuals realise their true potential, through quality education and development. The group has many franchise schools and has also ventured into preschools with a brand ‘Little One’.

With more than 20,000 students the journey is challenging yet definitely exciting and motivating. There is nothing better in this world than seeing a student succeed and knowing that you helped. We plan to have 50 schools by 2025 across India. Constantly updating, inventing and equipping with latest methodologies, Seth Anandram Jaipuria group believes in shaping its students to handle future challenges with aplomb.

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HVB GLOBAL ACADEMY HVB GLOBAL ACADEMY is dedicated towards nurturing imagination and inspiring excellence among all its students and offers a meaningful, globally connected and comprehensive educational programme under the exemplary leadership of Dr Chandrakanta R. Pathak, Principal & CEO, HVB Global Academy, Mumbai, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

HVB Global Academy was founded in 1963 by visionary educationists and eminent industrialists who wanted to provide a wonderful opportunity for students to learn and grow irrespective of any and all other social barriers or limitations. The belief, vision and mission was to be committed to empowering the learners with the skills and attitudes which the children will take from HVB and continue to grow throughout their days as lifelong learners.

Under the exemplary leadership of Dr (Ms) Chandrakanta Pathak, Principal & CEO, the legacy of quality education continues at HVB. We offer quality international education to our students while nurturing their potential and developing lifelong skills in preparing them for an ever-changing global community.

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Using an engaging educational approach where students participate fully and happily in the learning process while setting their own personal goals and self-reflections, HVB Global Academy firmly focuses on the emotional quotient rather than the intelligent quotient alone and thus endows its students with personal will to be mindful learners and perceptive inquirers.

ABOUT SCHOOL HVBGA is a fully authorized and affiliated to Cambridge Assessment International Education. HVB offers the complete Cambridge Pathway from Cambridge Primary to Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge Advanced Level. HVB Global Academy has an exemplary reputation as an International School where students benefit from an education enhanced with diverse global perspectives and with heightened focus on personal and social values.

Vision: To create lifelong success stories.

Mission: To offer a meaningful globally connected and comprehensive educational programme to its students regardless of personal circumstances, so as to empower them to explore and develop their natural curiosity and creativity Motto: To nurture imagination, inspire excellence.

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Gamechangers And Survivors Problem Solvers With Capabilities to Solve Real Life Issues Innovators And Leaders Analytical And Confident Inquirers Collaborators Towards Goal Achivements Initiators of Change And Sustainabilty Mentally Healthy And Proactive Partakers of Education Achievers of Excellence Calm With Oneself Students Morally Upright Individuals.

ACHIEVEMENTS HVB is a Great Place to Study Certified School. HVB is proud recipient of the Desh Apnaye Award 2018-2019 and the students are recognised as active citizens in March 2019.

HVB Management is rewarded with numerous excellence awards year after year on National and International platforms with recent laurels being the proud recipients of the Times Education Icon award 2017 by Times of India; the Jury’s Choice award for International Education in India by Education Today; Best International Pre-School and International Education in South Mumbai by India Today; Best International Curriculum School in India Award by Future 50; Asia’s Greatest Brands and Leaders Award 2017 in Singapore by Asia One; Radio City Mumbai Icons 2018 for International Education in Mumbai; Teaching Excellence Award by International School Award 2018 in Dubai and many more.

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Doaba Public School: Nurturing Students Holistically

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By adopting latest innovations and practices in school education sector, Doaba Public Senior Secondary School is fulfilling all the educational needs of its students, says Balwinder Kaur, Founder & MD, Doaba Public Senior Secondary School, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

To sustain in the rapidly evolving world, students must be responsive to change and receptive to new ideas. How does Doaba Public Senior Secondary School maintain such environment for its students?

The foundation of Doaba Public Senior Secondary School has been established on the pillars of Change & Evolution. Our founder, Late S Balwant Singh Sandhu, an eminent educationist, renounced a comfortable, urban lifestyle in Chandigarh and set up the Doaba School in Garshankar, Punjab. This was all about change and heralded a new era of conscious education in the region.

What started once as a rural school has today evolved into being an esteemed member of the British Council and UNESCO. Students excelling in academics & sports alike are awarded scholarships abroad. This presents them with opportunities for self-discovery & growth. Activities like horse riding, swimming in our semi Olympic size swimming pool, Basketball, Hockey, Football, Cricket and many more, enable our children to develop the confidence to compete in the international arena. Each Doabian is a change maker in their own right.

What are the best practices adopted by the school in its curriculum to nurture life-long learners?

Real education is not limited to textbooks only. Thus, a culture of experiential learning is inculcated in our school. Our digital classrooms are air conditioned to facilitate the comfort of learning.

Our state-of-art laboratories and well stocked library offer children unbounded access to the world. Our approach to subjects is an amalgamation of thinking, experimenting and discovering. When children discover on their own, the learning stays with them forever.

Furthering the Government’s initiative, Atal Innovation Mission of Niti Aayog, our Atal Lab is designed to spark creativity & propel students to delve into the world of design & computation thinking.

Learning by doing, brain storming, role play, demonstration method and discussion method are some of the techniques employed by our educators to ensure that our children make use of all the faculties of their mind.

How is the growing use of technology in the education sector, improving the teaching – learning practices, assessment methodologies and improving the learning outcome?

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Founder & MD, Doaba Public Senior Secondary School, Parowal

Artificial Intelligence is the future. The future rests with innovation, computing and being two steps ahead of the competitors. Doaba students are taught to use technology to translate their ideas into reality with precision, perfection and accuracy. Technology aided learning and teaching methods aid in developing an analytical mindset. Doaba children are future ready.

What measures are adopted by the Doaba Public Senior Secondary School for active engagement of parents along with the teachers for holistic learning amongst its students?

Family values go a long way in shaping up an individual. A child raised in the midst of sound values, unconditional love, zero judgement & affection, grows up to be a secured and confident adult. We ensure that parents are equally involved in the development of the child. We maintain constant contact with each parent, while ensuring that we do not breach a child’s right to privacy. Parents too are counselled if required.

Emphasis is laid on celebrating festivals, holy days followed by community lunch. We provide our students an atmosphere conducive for growth and where parents help their wards in journey to success. At Doaba, each individual transcends from being a learner to being an achiever.

What is the school’s mission and vision to ensure the growth of every student?

At Doaba, our only aim is to shape young, impressionable minds positively. We are always guided by the philosophy that, “EVERY CHILD MATTERS”. We thus, always strive to nurture our learners who always listen, question, challenge, and probe the world around them.

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Sanskriti School, Pune

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Striving for Excellence in Education Sanskriti School helps the children to become caring and sharing individuals, equipped with skills to make right choices in life and grow up as responsible citizens of the country, says Devyani Mungali, Founder and Director, Sanskriti School, Pune, in conversation with Elets New Network (ENN).

Metaskill which if developed and honed properly during the early childhood years will help shape all kinds of good habits and traits later in life including perseverance, patience, the ability to delay gratification and resilience. All these traits are the most important factors for happiness and success in life.

How is the school using technology to herald changes in the school education sphere?

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What initiatives have been undertaken at Sanskriti School to nurture leadership qualities among students?

What are some of the means by which you are helping your children get future ready?

We have a number of activities and programmes to encourage leadership traits in all our students starting from their formative years. It includes programmes that encourage teamwork, the spirit of research and enquiry amongst all our students.

We also have a well structured programme -- Prefect system under which students are chosen as a part of the school council every year to essay leadership roles. These students are chosen in a democratic manner where they make a presentation to the rest of the students and votes are cast with equal weightage to teachers and students.

We have a multi-pronged approach to achieve this. For example -- We are the first school in India to set up a Virtual Reality Lab as a teaching aid for some of the topics. In other instances, we have meaningful student engagements with thought leaders from the industry and academia. It helps our children gain a better understanding of Artifical Intelligence (AI). We also focus on fostering creativity, confidence and leadership in all our students to ensure that they become successful in future.

How do you view the role of discipline in the current environment with changing societal norms?

It is our view that technology will never supplant a teacher but always supplement her. The human and emotional quotient in teaching and the connection with students help educator to be at the centre of any change/initiative needed to be brought in a school education system. With this goal in mind, we have a well structured and exhaustive in-house teacher training programme which is the key to implement our vision successfully.

Earlier, the term discipline used to act as a coercive tool that compels people to do something without trying to create the right buy in.

This is clearly outdated but inculcating the skill of self discipline in all students is still valid and very important. Self discipline is the

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We have been early adopters of lot of data-driven decision making to foster bespoke learning programmes for our children.

The undisputed fact is that all children are unique and each child has their own pace of learning, different interests and aptitude.

The conventional school system focused on trying to create standardisation and conformism. We have used technology to track the unique development pattern (especially the social, emotional and behavioural skills) of each child over time so we can create customised plans to serve their bespoke needs.

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Canvas International Preschool: Encouraging Creativity Canvas is an exemplary Pre-school chain situated in multiple regions in Jaipur (Rajasthan), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other cities. We take special care of each and every child and create a path filled with fun and learning to help in your little ones’ transition to formal schooling. With great resources, time and effort, we wish to create an ideal childhood paved with smiles and laughter says Hema Harchandani, Founder and Managing Director, Canvas International Preschool, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

“Creating a better world by molding a future generation in the right manner is the foundation of CANVAS” How does Canvas International Preschool’s philosophy help developing strong foundation in early childhood?

Our educational philosophy has been influenced by the educational philosophy of three great educationists, Dr Maria Montessori, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.

Dr Maria Montessori had revolutionized the early childhood education by establishing children’s houses. We at Canvas recreated that establishment. Our schools are like miniature doll houses, a place where everything is designed according to children specific needs, where they are free to move around.

PLAY, EXPLORE, DISCOVER, CREATE We also believe in Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy of education in the open and giving children enough room and space

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Founder and Managing Director, Canvas International Preschool

to move around – Hence, our classrooms are declutered and free of any fixed furniture, providing the students with an appropriate environment Mahatma Gandhi as an educationist said that children need to be taught with the head, heart and hand, and we have done the same at Canvas by encouraging ‘learning by doing’ practices.

What are the various programmes conducted

by Canvas International Preschool for holistic development of kids?

We don’t have any classroom as at Canvas we have fun rooms, where an exciting learning environment is created by implementing creative and innovative teaching concepts. We were inspired by colorful themes in the designing of our schools and up to a great extent in designing of our activities. Play is one of the most important activities for children. In our fun rooms kids will listen and discover... Imagine and create…paint and paste… balance and

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What are the best practices adopted by the preschool in its curriculum for all-round growth of students?

We don’t have any classroom as at Canvas we have fun rooms, where an exciting learning environment is created by implementing creative and innovative teaching concepts. We were inspired by colorful themes in the designing of our schools and up to a great extent in designing of our activities.

Our P.S.E.D approach improves the integration of both hemispheres.

• Cluster sitting • Solving math problems in multiple ways • VAKOG (Visual, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory) • Rhyming Story telling • Stage activities • Positive attitude (Circle time, Special days, Art activity, Appreciation, Positive affirmations etc • Practice non- dominant hand • Mind mapping • Activities which involves primarily left brain (coloring, pasting, origami, dance, walk in the nature etc.)

• Ocular movement • Visualization and hand-on activities together

What are the best practices adopted by the preschool in its curriculum for all-round growth of students?

At Canvas, we offer developmentally appropriate day-long curriculum that offers self-paced learning for every child and hence our fun rooms are designed as learning and discovery corners. Our day plan is different in many ways as kids will not be expected to sit for long period of time.

The most important thing is that our curriculum focuses on multiple intelligence: • Linguistic Intelligence • Kinesthetic Intelligence

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Musical Intelligence Naturalist Intelligence Logical Mathematical Intelligence Inter-personal & Intra-personal Intelligence Spatial Intelligence

How the school is leveraging technology to ensure effective knowledge delivery to its students?

We believe Media and digital devices are an integral part of our world today. Technology plays a positive role in children’s development and learning. At Canvas, teachers use technical tools to teach kids.

• Audio visual room • My school app • Parents and teacher’s Whatsapp groups • We publish quarterly newsletters that keep the parents updated with what is happening in their child’s classroom on digital platforms.

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climb…. Explore and experiment… talk and pretend…look and listen…dance and sing…!

How does the school ensure active participation of parents to be aware about their wards’ performance?

At Canvas we believe in the meaning of the word ‘kindergarten’ which means ‘children’s garden’. Here, we feel that children are like flowers, and flowers need to be cultivated in an environment between school and parents. A parent needs to be as happy and excited about school as they want their child to be.

Our monthly circular with development skills comprises of – • Fine and Gross motor skills of every month and guidelines specified for parents.

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Keeping parents updated with what’s happening in their child’s classroom.

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Parents are kept informed of the monthly themes and topics, and ways in which they can participate at school and at home with these themes.

At Canvas we prepare parents for all developmental problems that they might face with their kids through monthly, Orientation Workshops, Parenting Tips Workshop, Reading is Fun Workshop.

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We build communities on campuses that provide safe zone for students to talk about mental health and a platform to reach out for support in times of need. The online solution also provides a habit formation platform enabling students to take charge of their wellbeing by forming healthy habits and overcoming those they face difficulties with. The idea is to bring a cultural shift towards approach for mental health and wellbeing and make youth more proactive to it.

According to Dr Dhaval Mody, Lead, RoundGlass College Wellbeing, “Maharashtra leads the education movement and

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olleges are focusing more on academic development nowadays. There is a need to have holistic development, mental health being at the helm of the same. Many colleges are seeing the need and trying to provide facilities for this but the dearth of professionals poses a significant challenge.

Youth has to face significant stress, anxiety and depression while on campuses and their mental health has a direct relation to their academic outcomes. India has the highest youth suicides globally. It is imperative to have policies and facilities that promote better mental health and wellbeing of students.

To address the above, RoundGlass College Wellbeing partnered with campuses across the country bringing global best practices and breakthrough technology to support student wellbeing. The programme creates awareness on campuses

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reforms in the country, especially when it came to inclusion and managing children with special needs. The number of higher education institutes and private universities are increasing in India. The number of foreign students attending these colleges is also on the rise. The scenario comes with its challenges both for colleges and youth.�

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Connecting Matters:

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n today’s world, where everyone has a smartphone, a Schoolhome App can be a great tool for every educational institution.

Research shows that school-home communication is greatly increased through personalised positive communication between teachers and parents. When a message from school conveys good news, the relationship between home and school improves.

Connecting Matters has been developed to empower this relationship. It is a one-stop solution to enable teachers and parents to access information, maintain records and manage communication without putting in a lot of time and effort.

With the job of the Teachers beoming more and more demanding everyday, schools are feeling the need to take appropriate countermeasures. This is where Connecting Matters has stepped in.

“We did a thorough testing of this product and we’re pleasantly surprised to see the response-time and modern technology used.

It has a smart and useful interface with great user experience,” say Vishal Jagtap and Sonal Toshniwal, Co-founders, BitCode Technologies, Pune.

As the pun in the name hints, Connecting Matters is a communication app, that saves time and energy of the teachers, and helps schools cut down on their communication expenses. The app has several smart functions like attendance entry, homework entry, school time table, digitised school diary, consent forms for various activities and sending important updates to all parents in one go.

Teachers can track attendance, share school newsletters, grades of various tests, timetables, syllabus and dates of upcoming exams, quizzes and other important updates. Teachers can send circulars to parents in bulk, or selectively. Additionally, they can schedule messages, undertake an administrative audit of the messages as well as manage subscribers list through the App. With Connecting Matters, parents can stay up to date with their child’s school work and schedule, check notifications and give their consent or feedback on various issues. Connecting Matters gives parents the much-needed assurance of their child’s safety by giving them access to their child’s attendance record daily.

Describing about the genesis behind Connecting Matters, Anjani Kumar Shukla, Founder & Managing Director, Connecting Matters App, said, “I have observed that parents are always concerned about their child’s life at school. Being a parent myself, I know that parents are anxious about their child’s safety, security, interactions with the teachers and their overall experience at the school. This

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made me wonder if there can be a platform specially designed for parents and the school that can give the parents a complete insight of the children’s life at school. This is how ‘Connecting Matters’ was born. From providing updates like Test scores to Annual Result, from Live Bus Tracking to event updates, Connecting Matters promises the parents a peace-of-mind they always deserved.”

With both parents getting busier by the day, even they are feeling the need of technology intervention, that ensures child’s safety and communication that informs them well in advance.

Parents want to be involved in the child’s school work and actively participate in the progress of the child at all times.

Smart schools are understanding the need of technology and are making a beehive to adapt it. Besides improving communication adapting to new technology also helps schools build thoughtleadership in the fraternity.

“We work with schools and help them build their credibility.

Connecting Matters is a must have for all schools who are catering to well connected, but busy parents. The features it offers at this price point are just amazing. It surely helps the schoolstay connected with the parents,” says Akshay Kulkarni, Director, Till it clicks studio Pvt Ltd.

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Education needs to be dynamic and ever changing in its contents and form as per the changing needs and requirements of society, says Swapnali Kadam, Chairperson, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Rabindranath Tagore School of Excellence, Pune, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What are the various factors which make a school reach on top position in a city or State?

Infrastructure, state-of-the-art facilities for accomplishing the Curricular-Co-curricular activities, Child friendly safe campus, trained faculty, professional, andchild-centric working system are some of the key parameters that help an institute build its rapport in the society. If a School excels in all these aspects, automatically it reaches the zenith.

What kind of technology has helped Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Rabindranath Tagore School of Excellence (BVRTSE) to improve learning outcomes among its students?

BVRTSE has a Wi-Fi campus and the classes are equipped with touchscreen writing/visual Smart Boards, short throw projectors.

Lower classes have smart android LCDs & Visualizers. Smart classes with internet connectivity has made the teaching-learning process a fruitful activity. The effective use of technology helps children to conduct research on every topic which is an essential part of IGCSE curriculum. At BVRTSE, we make a perfect balance between Screen Exposure Time & Off-screen Time. Digital Library facilitate children to refer millions of subject related & other books on line.

A good school must have good student-teacher coordination, what methods do you follow to maintain a healthy coordination between teachers and students?

It all begins from the empathetic attitude of our teachers. Teachers with high Emotional Quotient (EQ) are given priority during recruitment. We cater to inclusive education and differential learning through personalised instructions. Individuality of every child is given due respect, they are heard and given due Importance. We make sure to provide them ample opportunity to express themselves on broad spectrum platform.

In order to maintain a good learning environment at schools, what activities along with studies are conducted at BVRTSE?

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Chairperson of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Rabindranath Tagore School of Excellence, Pune

Seating arrangement in the class is C-shaped which motivates them to be participative. Round Table sessions are held in PrePrimary and Primary classes. Group activities among students of all age groups are conducted regularly. Field study sessions within School Campus are conducted. Expression of every child in the form of Art / Paper work is displayed in the surroundings so as to make them feel proud of their contribution in elevating the pro-learning ambiance. Beautiful campus equipped with various facilities help teachers in engaging children in multiple activities for enhancing their innate talents.

How a curriculum has been developed by the school that is interesting as well as focuses on the holistic development of students?

The lesson plans are activity-based. Teachers come up with age appropriate innovative activities. Entire curriculum is researchbased in which individual students try to understand the concepts with their own observation. Students come up with their observation which is worked upon by the teachers with their quality inputs. Conceptual Teaching Learning process is given a due weightage. This make the Teaching Learning process a very lively & interesting one for the students.

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Campus Placement in India: An Overview In the present era, campus placement holds a great importance for students and educational institutes. While, it helps a student in building a strong foundation for the professional career ahead without facing the real-world job struggle, peer-competition or family pressure, a good placement record gives a competitive edge to an institute/ university in the education market, observes Rumani Arora of Elets News Network (ENN).

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ampus placements provide the students with a foot-inthe-door opportunity, enabling them to start off their career right after they have completed their course curriculum. Furthermore, they get to interact and engage with the industry professionals during the placement drives, which further help lay a foundation for their prospective career in the future as they familiarise with potential contacts from their chosen career field.

Placements have gradually become an integral part of an institute’s offerings, which was not the scenario earlier. Nowadays, students pay special attention to placement records while selecting a college or university for the admission.

And it is rightly so, if a student is paying huge amount of parents’ hard-earned money as fees to the institutes/universities, he/she has the right to calculate the ROI (return on investment), which in this case is a lucrative job.

Madhu Chitkara, Vice-Chancellor, Chitkara University, Punjab, supported the aforesaid approach of students and their parents during a panel discussion at 10th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave 2019, Chandigarh.

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“Nearly 30-40 years ago, students were not expecting jobs from the colleges. I did my graduation from Delhi and I never asked for the job from my college and it was not their responsibility. Now the scenario has changed, the students are aware that Colleges/ Universities have the responsibility to provide placements,” she said.

Moreover, placement track record of any institute or university helps the students to comprehend their future accomplishments and encourages them to register for admissions.

Every institute is incorporated with a placement cell to assist the students in finding the right job where they can sharpen their skills and prepare for a bright future ahead. Further, it will also help to attract the fresh applicants for admissions.

A good placement record is also helpful in making an institute secure a higher spot in the college rankings. National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) gives great importance to the ‘placement records’ of a University/College while preparing the ranking list.

Challenges Technological Transformations: With the technological advancements happening in every sector, the nature of jobs is changing rapidly. New

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Considering the trends, education system now has to be developed in such a way that it prepares the students for jobs which are not even created as of now. In short, there is an urgent need to bridge the gap between Industry requirements and the existent skill set of the students..

According to a recent survey conducted by National Sample Survey Office, India’s unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high during 2017-2018. Another report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) says that almost 11 million Indians lost their jobs during 2018. While there can be many other reasons behind falling no of jobs, the gap between skill set and Industry requirements is one of the major reasons behind this phenomenon.

Economical Changes In the rapidly changing ecosystem, it is very important to focus on the skills and knowledge that are relevant to the future. A few institutions have identified programmes to handle this apprehension.

Besides, there is an urgent need that institutions find innovative mechanisms to nurture employable students incessantly by imparting quality education.

Steps to improve Placements Campus recruitment is witnessing tremendous transformation with the emergence of technological advancements in the process. Utilising multiple digital services, recruiters are able to figure out innovative and cost-effective strategies for conducting a campus recruitment drive, recruiting top candidates and meeting the recruitment numbers.

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Education system now has to be developed in such a way that it prepares the students for jobs which are not even created as of now. In short, there is an urgent need to bridge the gap between Industry requirements and the existent skill set of the students.

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transparent with its employees in various processes”.

It translates to the fact that it is high time that institutes keep themselves abreast with latest digital trends and create an effective placement strategy.

Here are the few steps Universities/Institutes can take to ensure optimum placements.

Enhanced Profile: Universities/Institutions must give importance to improve their profile be it having a professionally designed website or an attractive marketing brochure. Marketing the previous placement records, academic records and awards received by the college is also an effective tool for the same. Besides, promoting the professors/lecturers (with excellent academic and/or industry back ground) and marketing their college infrastructure (if they boast of it) are some of the trusted methods.

Networking: Institutes/Universities must leverage on their existing network to reach the Company HR’s and invite them to their college for the placement process.

Besides, their placement cell must also dedicatedly work towards creating new connections and nurturing the old ones. Social media and other professional websites like LinkedIn can be an excellent networking

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and diversified jobs have come into existence, which were never heard of before. And the trend is going to continue in the future with Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Machine Learning taking over the traditional educational module.

Chocko Valliappa, Founder & CEO, Hiremee, while speaking at the 11th Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave Pune 2019 said, “The industry is moving to industry 4.0 and the amount of metamorphosis the world is going to see is enormous.

One million jobs are going to be displaced; one million people are going to be displaced. New jobs are going to come. They say new 600 forms of jobs will come in. So how our education system is going to change to that world?”

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Skill Training and Employability: Skill Training is one of the most important factors responsible for improving the placement record of an institute or university.

Companies no longer just look for academic excellence and aptitude but they prefer candidates who have practical exposure and problem solving ability in reallife situations..

So, instead of starting training in the last year, colleges must focus on imparting skill training to students from the first year onwards. Institutes can also keep some KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and measure student’s progress against this.

Placing right candidate for the right job: Universities/ Institutes must focus on bridging the gap between the right candidate and the right job. They must avoid the tendency to place as many candidates and instead focus on placing the candidates who are ready and eligible for the role.

Companies critically focus on the “Attended Vs Recruited” numbers when they visit a college for campus recruitment. It gives them a fair idea of which colleges have high quality or job-ready candidates. If a college wants to boost its placement record, it is even worth getting eligible students from nearby colleges rather than its own students again who have less chances of getting through.

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It is also only Institute in India to have a Foreign National as its vice chancellor with more than 100 full-time foreign associates for academic upliftment.

In 1984, B S Abdur Rahman Crescent University (BSACU) was established as Crescent Engineering College – A Muslim Minority Institution, approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and affiliated to Anna University. The institute is promoted by the All India Islamic Foundation (AIIF), it has dedicated itself to the cause of knowledge and empowerment, with special focus on technical education for the educationally, socially and economically backward communities.

The Institute is guided by eminent personalities from various walks of life such as education, research, industry, business and administration. Abdul Qadir A Rahman Buhari is the Pro Chancellor of the university.

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demands and has industry recognition. With the contemporary learning modules and industry specific training, Crescent was able to attract top notch companies visiting to offer up to 28 lacs package to our students.

The Institute spans across 60 acres of sprawling, serene and evergreen campus, located in the Seethakathi Estate, Vandalur, Chennai on the G S T Road (Chennai-Trichy National Highway NH-45), adjacent to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park. More than 7,000 students study in this co-educational institution. Ample open spaces with several 100 year old banyan trees add to the beauty of the campus and motivate students to outdoor learning.

The vast campus has a well-planned network comprising blocks of various Departments, reading halls, classrooms, laboratories, a hitech auditorium, a computerised Library, and several playgrounds.

Also, the campus houses residential buildings for faculty members and other staff, apart from separate hostels for men and women students. The Campus has a Health Centre, a Bank & ATM, Bookshop, and connects up with the Chennai City through a network of over 60 buses operated by the University. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled and has 24 hour power back up.

The Institute has 389 highly qualified and experienced faculties. It has been the ardent policy of the Institute to have 100% faculty with Ph D. Now, 138 of them possess a doctoral degree and the rest of them are pursuing research for doctoral degree. The Institute has the Authors Forum with over 185 teachers involved in writing books for the students at different levels.

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ith an objective of promoting and highlighting the finest innovative practices in school education Sector, Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd organised 10th edition of School Leadership Summit, Lucknow.

Several well-known policymakers, edu-experts, decision-makers, innovators, visionaries and influential leaders linked to the school education sector from across the country participated in the day-long summit. They deliberated on finest practices and innovations empowered by technological interventions.

The summit was inaugurated by Dr Indramani Tripathi, Municipal Commissioner, Lucknow Municipal Corporation and CEO, Lucknow Smart City Limited, in the presence of other eminent dignitaries including Prof Kripa Shankar, Former Deputy Director of IIT – Kanpur and Former Vice Chancellor of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow; Dr Mukesh Kumar Singh, District Inspector of Schools (DIOS), Lucknow; Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder Manager, City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow; and Shreevats Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management.

Edu-leaders shared their thoughts during panel discussions on subjects like: Global emerging trends in curriculum and assessments in school education, evolution of school education and its significance in recent perspective, evolution of tech-enabled study in schools for improved teaching practices and better learning outcomes. They also discussed how physical education and sports are essential to health and development of a student.

The summit also felicitated over 120 schools featured among the “Top Schools of India Ranking 2018” from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to showcase their exemplary contribution to impart quality education.

The industry presentations highlighted the scope of technology and its comprehensive effect in the school education sector.

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Government Speakers

DR HARI OM IAS, SECRETARY, GAD, GOVERNMENT OF UTTAR PRADESH

In terms of global education index, India is at 130th position. Around 30 percent of children are not getting primary education as either they are dropouts or can’t get themselves enrolled in schools. We used to be known as “Jagat Guru” in ancient

times and we should cherish our golden past with an eye on present. Rather than ignoring the problem, we must find out its solution.

Another important thing is to define the objective of the education. Currently, the sole objective of the education is to get a job. But, we need to focus on physical education, extracurricular activities, and moral education, along with academics. Students are overburdened with studies and that’s why they have no time for such essential things.

A renowned school can be a good name as far as education market is concerned but most of the educational institutes in the country are still required to prove their importance for betterment of society. Education is not meant only for getting a job, rather, an educated person must help the society to gain new heights.

Education should actually help a person to enjoy their life but it changes as we start focusing on secondary things. So, it is important that education helps a person to become a good human being along with being academically excellent.

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GOVERNMENT SPEAKERS Dr Indramani Tripathi

Municipal Commissioner, Lucknow and CEO, Lucknow Smart City Limited

education to every child of economically weaker section to nurture their talent and provide equal opportunities of growth.�

Dr Mukesh Kumar Singh

District Inspector of Schools (DIOS), Lucknow Seeking the current scenario in which the generations are heading towards digitisation of every field including the education, it is important to identify the current needs of students. It can be achieved only by redesigning the school education curriculum.

Curriculum designing must also include the feedback from teachers as well. Another important thing that parents must take care is that they should never impose their aspirations on children. It creates unnecessary pressure on students. Education is not

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Education is among the sectors that encourage the implementation of most innovative ideas.

Objective of education is depicted in our Vedas very well. It is a way to become free from unemployability, illiteracy, and social misbelieves.

Education should also bring happiness to human, life, rather than making it more depressing.

Along with all this, it is very important to bridge the social divide in terms of education. Lack of education among economically weaker section of the society is causing these children to become criminals. We must provide

a race where a student only needs to come first, rather creativity must be inculcated among the students.�

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In Banda district, several initiatives have been taken under the guidance of the district magistrate. We are trying to develop healthy educational environment in the government schools. We are also trying to improve the learning outcome of the students by adopting the latest practices. We are adopting the culture similar to that of private schools. Teachers are

also being encouraged to come regularly in schools and teach children by adopting creative methodologies. As far as use

of technology in education is concerned, we are trying to set up smart classes in government schools.�

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KEY SPEAKERS Dr Jagdish Gandhi

Founder Manager City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow Education is a continuous and creative process. Its aim is to develop the capacities which are latent in human nature and coordinate their expression for the enrichment and progress of the society by equipping children with material, human and divine knowledge. The true education releases the

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hidden capabilities of human beings and helps in developing analytical abilities, confidence in oneself, willpower and goal setting competencies. All of us here

are teachers. Parents are the primary source of empowerment. Educators are the secondary source of empowerment and society itself is the third source of empowerment.”

Prof Kripa Shankar

Former Deputy Director of IIT Kanpur and Ex Vice Chancellor of AKTU, Lucknow Now this has to be understood, at the school level as well that we need to care, we need to worry about underprivileged and perhaps take some of the lessons from our earlier ways of imparting education – not only in India but all over the world. There is no need to become critical that this culture is great or that.

The point is we need to create something not for the consumption of tomorrow or day after. We need to create, at the school level, the citizens of the society for the years ahead.”

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Manju Lakhanpal

Principal Delhi Public School, Shaheed Path

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Technology is a boon in today’s scenario. It has brought significant changes to the teaching-learning processes. The use of technology has facilitated more involvement of students during classroom lectures. The students are becoming interactive and sharing their ideas. It can be said that the use of

technology has changed the entire education paradigm as it is helping teachers in effective knowledge delivery and students in improved learning.”

Hema Kalakoti

Principal APS Academy, Lucknow APS academy caters to the educational needs of students from all strata of the society. We try to teach students by involving them in various innovative activities adhering to the rules implemented by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and other regulatory bodies related to school education sector. We also help teachers to

remain updated with the latest trends by organising various workshops.

Considering every student unique, we also try to help nurture their innate talents.”

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Roshan Gandhi Forouhi Director Strategy City Montessori School

With a legacy of over 60 years, City Montessori Schools are among the first schools in the country to adopt various new practices. The staff

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across different schools has develped various strategies and systems that are helping the students to improve their learning. However, we are always keen to try new things and new pedagogies to impart quality education.

We start every methodology or practise on pilot basis and after analysing the outcomes we choose to implement the same or not.�

Rohit Singh

Director Mind Mapperz Innovation Pvt Ltd Mindmapperz was founded by young professionals who want to change the structure of the present education system prevailing in the country.

Our learning programme is based on STEM education with a vision of student empowerment which is based on the understanding that learning is more effective when students can visualise a concept. We are offering high quality programmes focussing on development of the skills, attitudes, confidence & responsibility that enable the students to succeed in their initial stage.�

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Shreevats Jaipuria

Vice Chairman Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management We all know that Uttar Pradesh is the largest State in India in terms of population. For India to become school education hub globally, it is essential for Uttar Pradesh to become a leader in school education. There is a huge demand and supply gap in terms of quality school education in cities other than metropolises. With more than 70 cities

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in Uttar Pradesh having over one lakh population, private education players have a huge scope to cater to the educational needs of children in the cities.�

Kakul Misra

Chief Operating Officer India- Arc Skills

At Arc Skills, we take a pioneering approach to skill development for the 21st century by creating education and training products that are transferable, industry relevant, and accessible to all. Our products support the growth of skills needed at every stage of life from student to graduate to professional. We have helped thousands of people, businesses, and schools across America, UAE, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, India, and Argentina. Our large network of trainers is certified by international curriculum providers and delivers award-winning skills development solutions using modern technology and methods.�

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Vishnu Mittal

Marketing Head Franciscan Solution Pvt Ltd Seeing so many unfortunate incidents happening within the school premises, Franciscan has

come up with World’s First Artificial Intelligence Based Visitor and Child Pick-Up Management System for Schools. It is equipped with a powerful Face Recognition Technology to ensure that only authentic Visitors, Appointment Seekers and Escorts could enter the school premises. This cloud-based

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system eliminates the traditional method of using dumb ID cards to manage visitors, appointments and escorts.”

Chander Mahadev Consultant Media & IT BSN InfoTech Pvt Ltd

BSN Infotech Private Limited has emerged to a highly versatile provider of a comprehensive suite of web, software related services and Government Outsourcing of Manpower, with a performance driven approach. We have developed many cutting-edge and customised software solutions in the field of accounting, management and MIS. We specialise in offering a host of services that include software development for schools, college management & Accounting Software with a complete accounting module. We focus on proactive and

meaningful relations with the community, Government, media, employees and the investors.”

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Senior Manager Entab Infotech Private Limited

We focus on proactive and meaningful relations with the community, Government, media, employees and the investors and any other group that can potentially impact on their organisation’s ability to operate favourably. Our

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online school management software promotes transparency by providing daily updates of homework, school news & activities, circulars, inflow and outflow of funds.�

Inaugural Session (L-R): Dr Mukesh Kumar Singh, District Inspector of Schools (DIOS), Lucknow; Shreevats Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management; Dr Indramani Tripathi, Municipal Commissioner, Lucknow Municipal Corporation and CEO, Lucknow Smart City Limited; and Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder Manager, City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow.

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Panelists (L-R): Sapna Sukul, Creative Director, Dalimss Sunbeam School, Varanasi; Roshan Gandhi Forouhi, Director-Strategy, City Montessori School; Dr Arjumand Zaidi, Director, St Xavier’s Convent School, Lucknow; Simmy Sharma, Educator, Sunbeam School, Varanasi; Arti Nigam, Principal, Delhi Public school, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow.

Panelists (L-R): Dr Abha Bhaarat Shah, Principal, Maharishi Vidya Mandir Public School, Lucknow: Manu Yadav, Director, Annie Basant School, Meerut; Manju Lakhanpal, Principal, Delhi Public School, Shaheed Path, Lucknow; Dilip Kumar, Principal, New Heights School, Hardoi; Harishchandra Nath, Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA), Banda.

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PANEL DISCUSSION: GLOBAL EMERGING TRENDS IN

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Panelists (L-R): Dr Sunita Gandhi, Director, City International School, Lucknow;Reeta Saxena, Principal, Scholar Mission School, Kanpur; Hema Kalakoti, Principal, APS Academy, Lucknow; Nandita Basak, Principal, The Chintels School, Kanpur; Diya Badgal, Principal, Birla Open Minds International School, Lucknow; Poonam Kochitty, Principal, Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Lucknow.

PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW ARE PHYSICAL EDUCATION &

SPORTS ESSENTIAL TO THE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A STUDENT?

Panelists (L-R): Dr Ravee Tripathi, Principal, Sumitra Modern School, Sitapur; Manav Kumar Singh, Associate Professor, JNN PG College, Barabanki; Bharti Mankani, Principal, Seth M R Jaipuria School, Barabanki; Shikha Tripathi, Principal, Seth M R Jaipuria School, Gonda; Bhawna Gupta, Principal, Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre, Kanpur; Sarabpreet Singh Chandhok, Principal, Sky Valley International School, Kanpur.

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The Chief Guest Lt Gen Kamal Jit Singh, State Information Commissioner and Advisor to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana, inaugurated the summit in the presence of Dr Manpreet Singh Manna, Former Director, AICTE, MHRD, Government of India and Member, World committee for SDG4 United Nations Organisation; Brijesh Karia, National Business Head, Robomate+; and Kanak Gupta, Vice President, Seth M R Jaipuria Group of Schools.

Organised by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd and powered by digitalLEARNING magazine, the summit witnessed the panel discussions on topics such as: Educating the present and future generations to develop their intellectual, emotional and adaptive capacities; evolving classrooms to create experiential learning spaces, and future of early childhood education in the era of digitalisation and innovations.

Lt Singh highlighted the need for nurturing patriotism through education whereas Dr Manna briefed on the importance of celebrating each and every profession. Further, keynote speaker Anup Kumar Rajput, Professor and Head, Department of Elementary Education, NCERT, explained why education is becoming confusing for children these days.

Other speakers from the private sector also discussed the major issues of the school education system and best practices and innovations that can be adopted and implemented for a better outcome.

The summit also witnessed a great turnout of exhibitors who showcased an array of innovative products and services for the education sector. Besides, more than 150 schools were felicitated on the platform of the 11th School Leadership Summit, Chandigarh for their exemplary contribution to the school educational ecosystem.

Here is a glimpse of the summit:

Inaugural Session (L-R): Dr Manpreet Singh Manna, Former Director, AICTE, MHRD, Govt. of India & Member, World committee for SDG4 United Nations Organisation; Lt Gen Kamal Jit Singh, State Information Commissioner and Advisor to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana; Brijesh Karia, National Business Head, Robomate+; Kanak Gupta, Vice President, Seth M R Jaipuria Group of Schools.

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GOVERNMENT SPEAKERS LT GEN KAMAL JIT SINGH STATE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER AND ADVISOR TO HON’BLE CHIEF MINISTER

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We must focus on nurturing patriotism among our students. If a person wants to do something for the country, joining the Indian Army is not the only way. Being a good citizen is also one of the best ways to serve the country. Our efforts supporting

the country’s development and betterment encourage soldiers on the border.

To improve the education scenario in India, it is important for all of us to share the responsibility. It is the duty of principals from finest schools in India to understand and cater the needs of students hailing from tier-2 and tier-3 cities by interacting with them, and building and managing a micro-environment to provide such an education.

Another important aspect is to improve the education sector sensibly. Innovations and latest methodologies are considerably exciting for every stakeholder of the education ecosystem. But, we must be sensible enough to adopt those changes so that changes help in building a sustainable and quality education landscape.

India has got a huge demographic dividend which needs to be leveraged by the educational institutions to fulfil the educational needs across the country. Countries like Japan,

Germany and Italy have a deficiency of skilled manpower. We can help these countries in this regard. We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan to provide five lakh skilled employees.”

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GOVERNMENT SPEAKERS Dr Anup Kumar Rajput

Professor and Head, Department of Elementary Education, NCERT In the present scenario, most of the children are confused as they don’t know how whatever being is taught to us or written in textbooks is related to our life ahead. Is it only relevant to pass the examination or it will be helpful for my life? If the students don’t need to pass the examination, educators may explain students the objective of education which is to develop their personality holistically.

Realising this objective we will nurture productive citizens who can contribute to improving the GDP of the country. It is important

Dr Manpreet Singh Manna

Former Director, AICTE, MHRD, Govt. of India & Member, World committee for SDG4 United Nations Organisation We don’t want to make every student an engineer with a standard curriculum. We want good farmers, politicians, social worker as well. When students start pursuing higher education, they come with a mindset that my father said to choose the branch that’s why I opted for it. Today school children are well aware and well connected through the media and internet. He/She should be fetched with the right education at the right time. If we are not imparting skills at schooling level we are not going to get innovations at the engineering level. We are talking a lot about

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to identify the 21st century skills few of which include: Creativity, critical thinking, communication, life-long learning etc.”

innovation. And for Skills, we have even formed a ministry but haven’t reached the starting point from where skills should begin. Skills have to start from school.”

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KEY SPEAKERS Dr S K Rathor

Founder & Chairman, Sanfort Group of Schools In recent years, school value system has gone down along with the parent’s faith in the system.

We need to create an environment in the school ecosystem where we need to bring together all the stakeholders - teachers, parents and students. And we should

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educate the parents to build again a ‘Guru-Shishya’ environment in the school. The faith of the parents in the school education system should be improved. So it will bring a win-win outcome for both parents and students.”

R K Sharma

Managing Director, Rainbow Academy Senior Secondary School We believe that education is not just skill, it’s an attitude and we are dedicated to impart education for excellence. We have started garbage farming as the skill education for our students. Under our mission – Trash to Treasure – we are converting the garbage into compost. We

have filled 170 metre stretch of our village road with biodegradable waste. Under another initiative “Mission Muskaan”, we distribute sanitary napkins to the girl students of remote areas. We are one of the

first schools to install free sanitary napkin vending machine at our campus.”

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Minal Anand

CEO & Founder, GuruQ

On GuruQ platform, students have the option of finding gurus of different calibre, gender, capabilities, as per their requirement. Also, it allows them to

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choose the type of tuitions – online, home, individual or group classes. We also have a facility where students can create a study group with their friends on the platform and also choose a tutor of their interest.

It is quite cost-effective as compared to individual classes.”

Anirudh Gupta

CEO, DCM Group of Schools We need to reorient and re-strategise the way of learning. Technology is a

double-edged weapon.

We need to choose it with care and see we are not becoming bored with it. It is also important for us to create an environment for the students where they inhale learning, absorb learning rather than push the learning through.”

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Amit Singla

CEO, NexGen Computers Migrating to the education industry 10 years ago was the best thing we did. Today,

we are working with more than 500 schools for their education technology needs. We

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deal into smart classrooms, language labs, robotics labs, STEM labs, ERP software for schools. We keep ahead of the competition by bringing innovative products into the market. Along with implementing technology, it is important for teachers to use it effectively for the students to gain maximum from it.”

Kanak Gupta

Director, Seth M R Jaipuria Group of Schools When we talk about creativity & innovation, we don’t bring it to the classroom. For example, History happens to be one of my favourite subjects but I studied History only after I went to College /University. For

me, school history ended in 1947, what happened after 1947 was not history. No one talked about 1971 or 1965 and no one talked about Kargil.

But we were expected to know all this come examination time. Somewhere there has been discord in our set up and as well as what the expectations are.”

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Abhishek Sachdev Head- School Sales North Kidzania Delhi NCR

Unlike earlier days, now, there are multiple career options.

Kidzania is providing the base to students from the starting. We are giving them a brief foundation about the particular profession. More than 90 plus role-playing activities are there – children can become a policeman, doctor, firefighter, TV anchor or a radio jockey. In a nutshell,

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we have created a whole city where we have buildings, roads, vehicles, industries and community centre. We have around 40 brands associated with us to make the cities real.”

Ishan Negi

Regional Manager, Yellow.Live From the last decade, books have been backed by the software and smart class concept. The reason behind us coming in this industry was to back the education, where the software will help not to educate students but parents as well. At yellow.live, we

provide tracking solutions to the schools under which GPS system is installed in the buses. This way, they can track their buses from anywhere on the go.”

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Ankur Gupta

CEO & MD of Campus mall Uniform & Merchandise School and colleges are focusing on building brands and how their brand is being perceived in the market. They might do a lot of advertising and marketing but

the biggest ambassador for an institute is their students. And how their students are projecting themselves in the world helps in creating a recognizable brand value in the market. A well-informed

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student plays a great role in how a school is being projected.”

Manish Naidu

Founder, Brainwonders Brainwonders is doing its part of identifying the potential of a child – knowing their strengths and weaknesses, characteristics, mapping their potential and helping them to do well. We have partnered with

Elets for the first time and we hope to add on to our existing 380 schools across the country. We are

getting the maximum attraction from tier 2 cities as the parents are much more aware.

We will be expanding to another 80 centres.”

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Mansi Aggarwal

Director, Scottish Early Years Early childhood education has a great impact on the lives of children. At this crucial stage, the more values we can instil in them and the more exposure we can give them, it will help them expand their horizon. Imparting quality and valuebased education is the motto of our school. We organise at least one

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event every month where parents come to school, see what their children are doing in class and participate along with them.�

Brijesh Karia

National Business Head, Robomate+ Somewhere students have started to feel a disconnect with studies because of so much stress and pressure.

As school leaders, we need to come up with creative solutions wherein the focus has to be the child. The disconnection between child and education should be eradicated and he/she must enjoy studies and not take it as a burden.�

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Shantanu Mishra

Marketing Manager - South Asia, Turnitin We believe education and literacy must be a right, not a privilege. Through our work on campuses worldwide, our employees can be a force for positive change globally. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalised feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used

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by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 150 countries.�

Vishnu Mittal

Marketing Head, Franciscan Solution Pvt Ltd

Incorporated in 2007, Franciscan is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company. With an average

growth rate of 170% every year, Franciscan is one of the fastest growing EdTech organisations in the field of Educational ERP for K-12 Schools. Our service line primarily includes School Management System (known as e-Care), e-Communication System and World Class Security Management System for the Schools.

We are serving a clientele of more than 500 satisfied customers such as CBCI (Catholic Bishop Conference of India), Vatican Embassy India & Nepal, India Expo Mart and many more.�

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PANEL DISCUSSION-1: EDUCATING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS

TO DEVELOP THEIR INTELLECTUAL, EMOTIONAL AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES

Panelists (L-R): Anirudh Gupta, CEO, DCM Group of Schools; Dr S K Rathor, Founder & Chairman, Sanfort Group of Schools; Dr Manpreet Singh Manna, Former Director, AICTE, MHRD, Govt. of India & Member, World committee for SDG4 United Nations Organisation; Reekrit Serai, Director and Dean, Satluj Group of Schools; Pratima Sinha, CEO, DSR Educational Society; Kanak Gupta, Vice President, Seth M R Jaipuria Group of Schools.

PANEL DISCUSSION-2: THE EVOLVING CLASSROOM: CREATING EXPERIENTIAL

Panelists (L-R): Dr Onika Mehrotra, Principal, Kalka Public School, Delhi; Anurodh Chitra, Principal, Delhi Public School, Kurukshetra; Rachna Pant, Principal, Ramjas School, New Delhi; Seema Handa, Managing Director, Eklavya School, Jalandhar; Geetika Sethi, Director-Principal, The British School, Panchkula; Vineeta Rajput, Principal, The Millennium School, Patiala; Dr Himanshu Sharma, Principal - Academics, Him Academy Public School, Hamirpur; Gulshan Kaur, Principal, Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula; Sanjum Sethi, Incharge, Venkateshwar International School Sec-10 Dwarka.

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PANEL DISCUSSION-3: THE FUTURE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN THE

ERA OF DIGITALISATION AND INNOVATION

Panelists (L-R): Hema Harchandani, Managing Director & Founder, Canvas Group of Schools; Mansi Aggarwal, Director, Scottish Early Years; Sneha Rathor, CEO (Academics and Innovations), Sanfort Group of Schools; Amol Arora, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Shemrock & Shemford Group of Schools; Shalini Jaiswal, Director - Academic, Training & Teacher Education, Maple Bear South Asia; Manjit Legha, Academic Director, Little Millennium; Dr (CA) Rajeev Gupta, Director, Golden Bells Pre School.

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FXEC: CREATING NEW FRONTIERS IN Higher Education Perspective

ENGINEERING EDUCATION The Francis Xavier Engineering College (FXEC) was established with the vision to empower budding engineers in technical and entrepreneurial training and to contribute to the socioeconomic augmentation of the nation, say Dr S Cletus Babu, Founder Chairman, SCAD Group of Institutions, and Dr Amali Cletus, Vice Chairperson, SCAD Group of Institutions, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN). line with the industry demands, has made a futuristic shift in imparting the required skills in an exemplary way. It has helped the institute to be awarded with Gold Category, by AICTE–CII Survey of Industry linked Institute 2018. The college has also signed MOU with 50 MNC’s like HCL, Sutherland, ICT Academy, EMC2, CDAC, Trimetric, IBM, Texas Instruments, Solutions, CADD Centre etc.

Dr S Cletus Babu, Founder Chairman, SCAD Group of Institutions, and Dr Amali Cletus, Vice Chairperson, SCAD Group of Institutions

How is Francis Xavier Engineering College (FXEC) supporting its students to contribute towards socio-economic augmentation through quality education?

FXEC was founded in the year 2000 with the motive to support socio-economic augmentation. The institute has been following a high-end teaching practice since its inception to impart quality engineering education and help students understand the nuances of engineering and technology. The state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities along with innovative approaches help every student to pursue the courses with an exemplary attainment level. The college is accredited to National Board of Accreditation (Washington Accord) for providing outcome-based education at par with the global standards.

What factors have been taken care by the college in preparing a curriculum in line with the industry demands?

In this ever changing environment where technology rules, mastering hard and soft skills is pivotal to meet the challenges of everyday life. The college follows the best-in-class teaching practice in imparting curriculum to make its students industry ready. The theoretical teaching blended with practical application is the hallmark of FXEC. The well-defined objectives of departments with collaborative work and commitment help every student of this institution march towards the vision.

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How does Francis Xavier Engineering College ensure the holistic development of students with emphasis on extracurricular activities along with academics?

The teacher-learner approach makes all the difference in this esteemed institution. The teaching fraternity is dynamic enough to motivate the students to participate in all curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities with the spirit of involvement to enable higher retention of the course content, thus making every Programme Educational Objective gets fulfilled. Passion & human potential are turned into hard skills through hands on practice.

Sports and games are given due importance too.

Please describe the initiatives undertaken by the college to enhance the skills of its faculty members?

Acknowledging that the members of the faculty are the real resource providers, the college gives the staff a whole gamut of opportunities to go ahead of the learning curve to get mastered in their relevant field and make every ward under them look beyond their horizon. Regular Faculty Development programmes, Periodic National/International Conferences and Seminars are organized.

FXEC makes its contribution in Research work by publishing articles in SCI/Scopus indexed journals - 35 papers were published during 2018-2019.

What is the vision and mission of the college?

Our Vision is to provide education in Engineering with excellence and ethics and to reach the unreached.

Our Mission is to create innovative and vibrant young leaders and entrepreneurs in Engineering and Technology for building India as a super knowledge power and blossom into a University of excellence recognized globally.

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