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BHANWAR SINGH BHATI Minister for Higher Education Government of Rajasthan

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EDITORIAL Recognising the Game Changers of Education

Indian education system has witnessed numerous transformations over the past few years. The country has embraced innovative teaching-learning practices, adapted to advanced technologies and the concept of international collaborations, with open arms. All this has resulted in India emerging as the biggest pool of talent and competitive global citizens, across the world.

The New Education Policy, which is likely to be introduced soon, will be a step forward towards making India a global education hub. All this would not have been possible without the efforts of country’s educationists and educators, who with their policies and path breaking initiatives have reshaped the way education is being perceived and imparted in the country.

In line with this, our cover story “Game Changers in Education” is a sincere effort to put the spotlight on all the dynamic game changers in the field of education – be it education ministers, bureaucrats, vice chancellors, school principals and education philanthropists. The story talks about their journey of accomplishments and contributions in renovating the education ecosystem.

On the other hand, our special story – “Impact of Technology in Educating Gen Z: Global Perspective” is a take on the role of technology as an enabler in educating the next generation. It features the views of top school and higher education leaders on adopting the latest technology for holistic development of Gen Z. Apart from this, our special feature carries the rich legacy of World Education Summit – the biggest summit on innovation in education. In the past 13 editions, the summit has witnessed the participation of 6,000+ Schools, 3000+ Higher Education Institutes, 400+ Government Speakers, 1500+ EduCorporate & Start-ups and 15,000+ overall footfalls.

Interestingly, the 14th edition, scheduled to take place on 9-10 Aug, 2019, will be a confluence of some of the leading thinkers in the education fraternity from around the globe. The summit will present a golden opportunity to all the stakeholders to understand the education ecosystem’s challenges and their solutions through a different lens.

The magazine also carries the interviews of Bhanwar Singh Bhati, Minister for Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan; Vaibhav Galriya, Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan; Pradeep Kumar Borad, Commissioner, College Education and Special Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan; Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE; Biswajit Saha, Director (Training & Skill Education), CBSE and Major Harsh Kumar, Secretary, NCERT. Valuable inputs shared by other eminent government dignitaries in form of interviews and a wide variety of articles likely to help our esteemed readers gain significant insights into the Indian education system.

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Last few years have witnessed sea changes in the Indian education sector as it has been reshaped by the introduction of innovative teaching-learning practices, effective use of technology, collaboration with foreign universities for global standard of education and many others. All these are helping in nurturing the competitive global citizens in India for the world.

In line with this positive backdrop, heavy responsibility has devolved upon the country’s educationists and educators to influence public policies in the same direction and simultaneously guide their own institutions of learning to provide game changing prospects for generations ahead.

Moreover, the responsibility is not only of education philanthropists and private education entrepreneurs or edupreneurs but has also devolved upon education ministers, bureaucrats, vice chancellors, faculty and administrators of public universities, and principals and teachers of the country’s every educational institute. The positive side is that most of them are already practicing leadership skills to nurture institutions under their care into centres of excellence.

As education has been playing a key role in shaping up personalities and careers of a child, these visionaries are helping the sector to change and influence future career choices of most of them. There is a need to discern these leaders for their unique vision, choices and the paths they have chosen

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to guide, mentor or prepare hundreds of youths every year towards the goal of nation-building.

Beyond the realm of financial prospects, each of these game changers has a strong desire to take their set of pupils ahead of others by enabling them to deliver the best with the help of innovative approaches. digitalLEARNING, Asia and Middle East’s first and only magazine on innovation in education, has played a vital role in highlighting the best practices and visions of these game changers since last many years. Through its thought provoking write-ups, the magazine has been discussing their challenges and helps them in interacting face-to-face with the solution providers on a common platform.

These game changers include many political leaders, government officials, school owners, principals and others.

These are known to be leaders in education landscape. They’ve always stressed upon adopting better education practices, requirement of new government policies or amendments in them, role of teachers, school management and parents for better learning outcome of students among others.

Based on their perspectives, Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN) takes a look at the top game changers linked to the education landscape over the years who inspired others with their wisdom.

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Prakash Javadekar Prakash Keshav Javadekar (born 30 January 1951) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and currently serving as the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

Following the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 Indian General Election, he was appointed Minister State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He was also the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and briefly held the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting.

He was made the HRD Minister in 2016. For a while, he was also the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Information and Broadcasting. As the Education Minister, he ensured the establishment of the National Testing Agency as a premier and self-sustained testing organisation to conduct entrance examinations for admission/fellowship in higher educational institutions.

He was also the Chief Guest at 2nd Annual Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave. The summit was held to promote an environment of innovations, employability and entrepreneurship across the country. During his address, Javadekar said, “There is a new vibrancy in the education landscape of Rajasthan. A number of path-breaking measures have been implemented across the length and breadth of the State – a number of which are IT-led innovations that have transformed the whole educational content delivery across Rajasthan State’s schools.”

Dhan Singh Rawat Dhan Singh Rawat (Born on October 7, 1972) is a Member of Legislative assembly of Uttarakhand. He represents the Constituency of Srinagar Garhwal, and is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He completed basic education from his village School, and higher education from Hemvanti Nandan Bahuguna (HNBGU) and holds a PHD degree.

During various events organisesd by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd, his gracious presence as a chief guest and valuable thoughts have made the audience know about latest policies and Government’s key focus areas in future. As the Chief

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Guest in 12th World Education Summit Delhi, he inaugurated it and shared his thought provoking ideas on various aspects important for holistic development of the nation and necessary to impart quality higher education in the country.

His efforts in Uttarakhand have helped the State to improve the higher education and bring it at par to the global standard.

Sharing the efforts of the Uttarakhand Government for betterment of the education sector, Dr Rawat during the 12th World Education Summit Delhi said, “Due to shortage of funds in education that too mostly in the higher education, institutes are facing faculty shortage and lacking quality education.

The Uttarakhand Government has recruited teachers through state public service commission which resulted into improved attendance of students in the institutions of the State. The attendance increased to 68% from 47 % within a short span of time.”

Temjen Imna Along Temjen Imna Along, Minister for Higher & Technical Education, Government of Nagaland, is also the president of Bhartiya Janta Party’s Nagaland unit.

He strongly asserted that his involvement in politics is simply to be able to influence the policies that would reign in ‘Sustainable and Equal opportunity for all round development, so as to ensure a healthier future for the next generation’.

He has participated in various summits of Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd where he motivated the attendees to bring sustainable change in education sector. Temjen Imna Along is a nonassuming, soft-spoken and a philosophical person whose aim is to serve the people with a sense of social responsibility. During his addresses, Along touched various aspects like importance of digitisation in education and need of North East States’ inclusion for holistic development of the region.

During his address at 10th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Chandigarh in March 2019 as a Guest of Honour, he emphasised that quality of higher education plays an important role in the development of youth and country holistically. He said, “I’m glad that we have come to realise the importance of higher education and technical education in our country. There is a huge gap between industry and academia.

I belong to North East part of the country which is a cluster of eight small states. In Nagaland, the minimum qualification to teach is a Doctorate degree and in our department there is a dominance of women. So, it can be said that in Nagaland, women are more educationally empowered than men.”

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Thokchom Radheshyam Thokchom Radheshyam, Minister for Education, Labour and Employment, Government of Manipur, has been elected as a Memeber of Legislative Assembly from Heirok (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of Manipur in 2017.

He has participated in various events of Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd including 2nd Annual Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Jaipur where he motivated the attendees to bring sustainable change in education sector. While sharing his thoughts at our events, Radheshyam always emphasised on the importance of maintaining standard of education not only in Manipur but also across the country.

Sharing his thoughts during the Summit, Radheshyam said, “Education is in an ever-evolving paradigm. Addressing challenges on a routine basis, finding their solutions and implementing innovative ideas to improve the educational landscape of Manipur, remain my key priority. Manipur is a small State with a great diversity and I am here in this conclave to follow the very slogan of this event -- connect, engage and participate.”

Anil Swarup Anil Swarup started his career in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in, 1981. His assignments in various Ministries of the Government reflected his indepth knowledge and experience in visualising, conceptualising, articulating and implementing various schemes.

Swarup holds a Masters degree in Political Science from Allahabad University, where he was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold medal for the best all-round student. At the very beginning of his administrative career he was awarded the Best officer Award at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of 1981 batch. As a strategic thinker and an innovative leader he has won several awards and nomination, the prominent ones being: Nominated as one of the “policy change agent” by The Economics Times during the years 2010, 2012, 2015 & 2016.

He was selected as one of the 35 “Action Heroes” in India Today’s 35th Annual Edition.

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Government initiatives and also motivated every attendees to perform better in their respective areas of working.

Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe Prof Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe joined All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) as Chairman on 17th July 2015. Prof Sahasrabudhe graduated from BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, in Mechanical Engineering with first rank and Gold medal in 1980. He obtained Master's and Doctoral (with UGC Fellowship) degrees from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 1982 and 1989 respectively.

In his illustrious career of 31 years, Prof Sahasrabudhe held several important Academic, Research and Administrative positions. He started his career as Scientific Officer, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983 and moved to Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) as Engineer in the same year. He served as Lecturer and Assistant Professor at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) from 1987-1988 & again from 19891995, before joining IIT Guwahati as Associate Professor in 1995 and has been serving as Professor since 1999. Also, he served as Director, College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) since 2006 on deputation from IIT, Guwahati prior to joining as AICTE Chairman.

Dr Subodh Agarwal Dr Subodh Agarwal, a 1988 batch IAS officer of ACS rank, has been formulating public policy in the Central and State governments, managing public sector organisations and leading administrative districts for the past three decades.

Known for his strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills, the senior IAS officer is noted for building effective teams and providing hands-on leadership. He has always been the first choice for demanding assignments or managing organisations in crisis with specific mission. He is a highly focused, motivated, analytical and organised with an eye for details.

Dr Agarwal is a graduate from IIT-Delhi. He earned Post Graduate Diploma in Systems & Management from IIT Delhi in 1988. Dr Agarwal also holds a Master’s degree in Public

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Policy from Princeton University and a PhD in economics from Rajasthan University.

Dr Agarwal has always graced the various summits organised by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd. His deliberations during the summits always helped the participants to know about the policies and initiatives that may help them to improve outcomes. As one of the key speakers at Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Jaipur in September last year, he said, “The Government of Rajasthan is taking various initiatives for the benefit of students in the State. Nowadays, the Government is focusing more on equipping students with vocational and entrepreneurial skills. These skills will make our students job-ready for the corporate sector and the industries of their respective streams.

Anju Sharma Anju Sharma is a member of the prestigious Indian Administrative Service and has been serving in the Government at senior leadership positions for more than 26 years. She currently holds the office of Higher Education and Technical (H&TE), Government of Gujarat, as Principal Secretary. She is also the Director General of Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM).

During her administrative career she worked as collector & DDO in various districts of Gujarat and has worked in various departments like Food, Revenue, Environment and Forests departments in the State Government. She has also worked as Director in Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India.

She has received several awards, viz., the ‘Prime Minister's Award for Administrative Excellence for implementing the Sickle Cell Anemia Control Program in the State (2011)’, ‘Individual Contribution Award for Health Insurance Scheme - Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) (2011)’, ‘NASSCOM Social Innovation Leaders Award’, ‘National E Governance Award’, ‘E World Award for the project e-Mamta-MCTS (2012)’, and ‘India Tech Award for the project e-Mamta-MCTS (2012)’.

She has also written a book – ‘I of the Storm - Discover your true self’. Ms Sharma has also received range of national and international trainings and has pioneered path­breaking projects like e-Mamta for Mother and Child Tracking, "Khilkhilat" vans for drop back of new born infants with mothers from maternity homes, 181 "Abhayam” helpline for women, School Safety Week for disaster management education, Student Start up and Innovation Policy and so on.

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Navin Mittal Navin Mittal is currently serving as the Commissioner of Collegiate and Technical Education for Government of Telangana.

He belongs to the 1996 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and allotted to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. He is an engineering graduate (B Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He stood 3rd in All India Civil Services exams in 1995. In 2009, the Rotary Club of Hyderabad East honoured Navin Mittal, with Vocational Excellence Awards.

He is always of the view of adopting latest innovations and technologies for the improvement of any sector. The same was reflected during his address at the 10th Higher Education and HR Conclave 2019, Chandigarh, where he was one of the key speakers and inaugurated the same along with other key dignitaries.

Elaborating his thoughts on the fourth Industrial Revolution, Mittal said, “There are three significant trends which we are seeing all over the world. The first one is industry 4.0, which is a big shift from industry 3.0. It was about basic use of Information & Technology, basic development of Information & Technology in last five to six decades. India was somehow not a leader in the previous three Industrial revolutions.

Game Changers in Preschool Education Dr S K Rathor and Kavita Rathor Dr S K Rathor and Kavita Rathor stepped into the preschool arena way back in 1999 and together they launched their preschool brand Sanfort a decade later in the year 2009.

Dr Rathor shares that he gaveup his flourishing career as a computer engineer with one of the top IT companies of India and joined his wife to set-up a preschool with a mission to provide an enriching learning experience to the early learners in their first step towards education. Fondly remembering his initial years of struggle in establishing the brand he further quoted, “Our journey during these 10 years was both interesting as well as challenging as initially parents were not well aware about pre-school concept on one hand, and mushrooming of schools with or without the

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vision to nurture little learners on the other due to lack of an established regulatory body for preschools.”

Looking back at the journey, Dr Rathor shares his experience with stars twinkling in his eyes and a big smile spreading across the lips, “The journey of SANFORT since its inception till date has been incredibly interesting and aspiring for many. Rising from a preschool to an international brand operational from 3 countries, 28 Indian states with 250+ schools and 80,000+ alumni in just 9 years, it has happened only because of parents’ love and faith on us.”

SANFORT has earned for demonstrating restless work in the field of education and pre-school setup: Times Business Award for Outstanding Contribution in School Education 2019, Most successful educationist award, most trusted pre-school brand of the year 2016, Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, Franchise Award 2015, Indian Education Award 2016, World Education Award 2016, Entrepreneur of the Year 2016, Fastest Growing pre-school chain in India, Education Excellence Award 2015, Business Sphere Award, to name a few.

Jitendera Karsan Safari Kid International came to India in 2015 and launched their first centre in Mumbai. Seeing the success rate and feedback from the parents community, we have now expanded to over 10 centres across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Gurugram.

Keeping this in mind, we plan to expand to 7-8 more centres this year and about 10-20 more centres in 2020. The essence of Safari Kid lies in the personalised care we provide to every child that joins us, so a considerable amount of time is spent on research, curriculum, training along with the constant communication with parents.

Our biggest achievement has been the strong and unwavering loyalty of the parent community across all the cities we are present in. Owing to their word-of-mouth, most of our centres have a waitlist which goes to show the kind of trust they have put on us. We also push for several initiatives wherein parents and children can interact via activities like sports, parent guest lectures, bonding programs, etc.

Since our launch in 2015, we haven’t looked back when it comes to earning accolades. From winning The "Best Preschool for Pedagogy Practices" at the 2017 edition '' BW Top Education Brands In India`` and " Best Preschool In India", by the 5th National Conference School merit Awards 2017.

Safari Kid was also awarded The Best Innovation in Curriculum in "Early Childhood Development" at World Education Summit 2018. Special mention of our Safari Kid Mumbai centre which

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Game Changers in School Education Dr Madam Grace Pinto Over the decades, among the variety of personalities that have risen to prominence for their contribution in the field of education and social service, Grace Pinto stands out as someone distinctively striking and seminal in her demonstration of commitment towards making a difference through her schools as a leader. What makes Madam Grace Pinto unique and different is her management style with multiple roles as a managing director, educationalist, leader, visionary, counselor coupled with entrepreneur qualities. She began as a teacher nearly four decades ago and today she is a credible personality of excellence in the highly competitive and challenging segment of education.

The determination and energy in accomplishing the vision “Excellence in Education and All Round Development” makes her a stalwart in the field of education in the country. Her contribution in the segment of education and social service has been recognized with over 110 national and international honours.

She is also an ardent supporter of the uplift underprivileged and welfare of senior citizens, women empowerment and has always reached out to render help to the poor and needy. Some of her recent awards and recognitions are: ‘Leading Schools of India’ by Leading Schools Corp, USA; Visionary Leadership in Education Sector Award at Mid-day Excellence in Education Award Ceremony; and Global Leaders Award at India UAE Partnership Summit 2018.

Raghav Podar Born into a family that has been in education since 1927, it would be fair to say education runs in his blood. Raghav Podar had a keen interest in learning how to enhance pedagogy levels and understanding and how to build better learning environments from a young age.

After completing his studies at University of Texas and

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University of Warwick, he left his plush, high paying job in the U.S. and returned to India to upgrade the quality of schooling here.

A fine blend of global thinking & Indian values, he is a pathbreaking educationist and a thought leader on constructing optimal learning environments. As Chairman Podar World School, he is at the steering wheel of India’s highly acclaimed Podar Education Group. His multi-city, multi-brand school has presence across geographies.

Having studied the education systems of Finland, Singapore, UK and UAE, he has been vested heavily into upgrading the quality of schooling in India.

His contribution to the field of education and society is commendable and he has been bestowed with many awards for his contributions in the field of education and nation building including: The Bhaskar – Pride of India Award, “Global Achievers Award” by the Indian Ambassador to UAE, “THE GLORY OF INDIA AWARD” by the Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand in 2016, and The Education Leader of the Year 2018.

Dr Satyabrata Minaketan Dr Satyabrata Minaketan is the Founder Chairman/Principal of ODM Public School, which is a multi-purpose school based on Indian culture and affiliated to CBSE. He hails from a remote village Gatanai in district Kendrapara, Odisha. He was born on 19th March 1961. He has completed his Bachelor degree in Education from Regional Institute of Education during 1982 and 1986, Master degree in English Literature from Utkal University, He has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Law from M S Law College, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Besides that he has completed the Diploma Course in Rural Development and was awarded the Doctorate degree in Philosophy in the year 2004 in Value Education. His deep interest and untiring work for child welfare is supreme. The mission of his life is to remove immorality and develop a value oriented society.

With all round effort, Dr S Minaketan, has been tirelessly pursuing excellence in social work and education. To recognise his dedication and contribution to the world of education he has been awarded many laurels by different organisations: Best Social Organizer Award, State Level Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhawana Award, Vidya Jyoti Award, Bharat Vikas Parisad Odisha, and Rastriya Ekta Samman.

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opportunity for every child to achieve the maximum possible in physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual development.

Lata Rawat Lata Rawat is Director of Cambridge Court Group of Institutions is a personality of multiple calibers. She completed her Master degree in English Literature and bachelor’s degree in education from Mumbai University. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Yoga.

She was awarded with the prestigious “Bharat Vidya Shiromani award”. She is the recipient of “Best education leader award” from Lions club.

She is the recipient of golden educationist of India award from IIEM, New Delhi and subsequently the education achievement award by IIEM in 2016. The coveted Rajiv Gandhi education excellence award for outstanding achievement in the field of education has added a feather to her cap. She was most recently bestowed with the leadership award for excellence in co-curricular Education from ScoolStars.

She is a person who believes in her students achieving flying colors in both academics and extra-curricular.

She passed on her ideology amongst her students who succeeded in getting top ranks in IIT, PMT, CLAT, IPCC, NTSE, KVPY, Olympiad exams. Under her patronage the students are national winners of Vodafone Next Quiz contest, Derek ‘o’ Brien’sBournvita quiz contest, CBSE state level Science Competitions. The students also won Zee’s Jaipur Literary Fest Quiz in the year 2017. Under her mentorship the schools received “Hundred best schools of India (2013-14) award by engineering watch.

Dr Mona Lisa Bal Dr Mona Lisa Bal is the Chairperson of KIIT International School (KISS), Bhubaneswar. She graduated in Political Science with honours from Calcutta University and post-graduated from Utkal University. She is also a Post graduate in Business Administration from KiiT University.

She did her Doctorate in “Effective Learning in a Joyful Environment”, culminating into publication of a pioneering book

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“Transformation in the Pedagogy of Education in India”.

She intends to take her passion in primary education forward by making insightful foray into the Higher Education Sector where she has already contributed twenty nine articles in internationally reputed educational journals like, IOSR, IJARSE, British Journal of Education and World Journal of Educational Research.

She is proactively engaged with KISS, a School for 25,000 tribal students and mentors a few tribal students for achieving the civil services. It is under her leadership that the School has achieved all round excellence and is ranked among the top ten Schools of India. Several international awards and MOUs with organizations for academic excellence have been achieved under her tutelage.

GAME CHANGERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra is the Co-founder and Chancellor of Shobhit University India and a prominent social entrepreneur based in New Delhi, who carries leadership roles in many organisations.

Kunwar Vijendra is a persistent advocate of the initiatives for education for all; secular values, crisis management through diplomatic and peaceful ways, and globalized systems of learning and peaceful co-existence. He had been instrumental in the development of a number of higher education institutes, research centers, including two universities and a 100 bed hospital in north India.

Acknowledging his contribution to society in the areas of education and other concerns he has been copiously honored and awarded. Recently ASSOCHAM conferred on him “Lifetime Achievement Award”.

He has traveled widely in India and to the countries like USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Russia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, UAE, Mauritius, Rwanda, Uganda etc. to participate in various professional, social and educational activities.

He is a passionate Gandhian, avid reader, keen learner, social speaker, occasional poet, and a dreamer!

Dr Ashok K Chitkara With exemplary elegance and polished ideas, with high calibre and right balance of thoughts and beliefs, Dr Ashok K Chitkara is the face of potential youth and equitable education. A renowned Mathematician and a legendary Academician, Dr Ashok K Chitkara is the Chancellor of Chitkara University, Punjab and

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Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh.

The establishment of Chitkara University was a turning point in the career of Dr Ashok K Chitkara, as it pronounced the foundation of an educational system which would help reach the upcoming generation to the zenith of their success. Under his leadership and guidance, over 60 programmes are being offered at Chitkara University.

It is his strong academic mentorship that resulted for the University to have 200 plus academic partners across the globe. His entire life has been the epicenter of creating academic excellence among the youth of India and producing capable industry professionals and aspirant students, thus adding to the social and scholarly fabric of India.

As a ‘Community Reformer’, Dr Ashok K Chitkara is also dedicated to improve the quality of the underprivileged and neglected. He has also adopted five villages in Punjab and one in Himachal Pradesh. Dr Chitkara believes in total commitment to society, as his focus is to constantly make the lives of people better by uplifting them in every possible way. In addition to this, under his leadership, Chitkara University runs its own Community Radio by the name of Chitkara 107.8FM. The Community Radio is completely managed by the students of Chitkara University, and is a great way to engage the community.

Santosh Kumar Choubey Santosh Kumar Choubey is a widely recognised entrepreneurial pioneer in the area of ICT and skills-based Education & Services Dissemination for semiurban and rural India. Since the late 1970s, he has been a frontrunner in recognizing and actively working to reduce the ICT and technological literacy gap between urban and rural India and propagating effective and sustainable employment solutions for India’s less developed areas.

Under Choubey’s able guidance and vision, today AISECT has emerged as India’s leading Social Enterprise working in the areas of Skill Development, Higher Education, Financial Inclusion and other ICT based services. The entrepreneurial thought behind the workings of AISECT was strong enough for it to become a World Bank–IIM (A) Case Study in 1999. In 2005, Mr. Santosh Choubey received the coveted Indian Innovation Award from the then President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam.

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He has written over ten books on computer science which have won esteemed awards like the Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Award for content creation in Hindi and the Meghnad Saha Award. His short stories have, over the years, been selected for dramatization at the National School of Drama and the Bharat Bhavan.

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Prof Raghu Raman Prof Raghu Raman is Chairman for Amrita School of Business and Director for Global Rankings at Amrita University. Recently Amrita was declared to be an Institution of Eminence by the Govt. of India and is ranked 8th best university in the country.

Recently, Prof Raman was invited to the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative at UN, since the Amrita School of Business was the only Indian institution to find a place in the prestigious United Nations Sustainable Literacy Test which evaluates knowledge about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among students in higher education.

Prof Raman has over 30 years of executive management experience and enterprise software development at variety of Fortune 500 companies including 15 years at Amrita. As CEO of Amrita Technologies Ltd., Prof Raman led a healthcare technology start up that developed a patented and CCHIT certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System with global customer base. Now scaled to over 25 hospitals, 10 million patients have benefitted from this affordable healthcare solution and is a finest example of a social business.

Prof Raman was awarded the HP Global Social Innovation leadership grant and the New Media Consortium (NMC), USA shortlisted his low-cost tablet learning project as the most innovative project to watch out for in their annual Horizon report. He is the recipient of IEEE Education Society’s Best paper award. As Principal Investigator for multiple research projects he has raised over $3.2m in research funding leading to over 50 publications.

Ashok G Verghese Ashok G Verghese, is the Director of Hindustan Group of Institutions, Chennai that includes several premier institutes of Higher Education.

Ashok Verghese, has been a Game Changer in the field of education and is an outstanding leader and educationist who steers the

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Hindustan Group of Institutions with a foresight to propel the institution to achieve global recognition.

HITS has been rated overall Gold in QS I Guage and QS 5 stars ratings in Teaching, Employability, Innovation, Inclusiveness and Facilities. HITS has been rated in 301-350 band in the World University Rankings 2019, BRICS ranking system. HITS has been accredited “A” grade by NAAC, NBA has accredited B. Tech programmes offered by Aeronautical, Automobile, Civil, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.

His involvement in acquiring technology resources, and drive for acquisition of knowledge in all fields is astounding.His keen interest in research has resulted in establishment of 14 Centres of Excellence in Hindustan University. He encourages the staff and students to involve in research and he has also published papers in scopus indexed journals and filed patents.

He has steered the institution to be the first institution in India to receive the 5S Certification award for successfully implementing 5S Work Place Management System.

Anish Srikrishna Anish Srikrishna is the President of Times Centre for learning Limited. With over 20 years of experience, he is an established marketing and management professional with a wealth of experience in brand building and innovation.

Anish started out in sales with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. and marketing with Coca-Cola India; he then went on to build and lead successful businesses across varied industries. He was also the marketing head for brands like Samsung Electronics India and Oberoi Hotels & Resorts.

Anish’s strengths include building brands and creating new business models. Prior to joining TCLL, Anish worked at Pearson India as Business Head for Higher Education Test Preparation. During his stint at Pearson India, Anish has been instrumental in introducing Direct Delivery programs to diversify Pearson Education into test preparation and distance education. With his past experience in FMCG businesses, hospitality industry, Anish is highly consumer focused and drives outcomes.

Anish strongly believes in team work and people's potential, and supports an open culture in the organization. With his strong business acumen, informal and practical approach, he is recognised as a dedicated professional by his colleagues.

He has an eclectic choice in books and reads various genres like fiction, biographies and business books. In his leisure time, Anish enjoys travelling, studying various cultures and spending time with his family.

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‘STUDENTS LACK IN LIFE SKILLS NOWADAYS’

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olleges are focusing a lot on enhancing academic skills of students. However, students lack in the most important skills i.e. life skills. We are working with campuses across the country to built programmes that help in nurturing life skills among students,” says Dr Dhaval Mody, Director, RoundGlass College Wellbeing.

“Nowadays, colleges are talking about three things: Admissions, Placements, and Retention of students. When Colleges talk about admissions, they emphasise on how their curriculum is different and the infrastructure they are providing to the students,” he added.

Dr Mody suggested that the institutes are needed to focus on things that may help students to be successful in life. He stated, “Placements has been a big thing when it comes to higher education institutes. The colleges are striving hard to get their students placed in the reputed organisations. But the industry requirements are very different and colleges are required to bridge that gap. We have collaborated with various colleges in all the aforesaid domains working for the mental health and well being of the students.”

He also described about the programme offered by his organisation. According to him, “Our programme has two modules: one is on campus and the other one is online.

In today’s scenario, we are into so many things that we forget to be happy. Nowadays, students don’t feel happy despite having various facilities whereas earlier students

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used to study under street lamps and also used to find happiness in that.”

Describing about the kind of pressure students are facing in real life, Dr Mody said, “If a student forgets his/her Wi-Fi password, he/she becomes depressed. There are a lot of things that cause stress among students.”

He also described about the efforts made by his organisation in this regard. Revealed, “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 well-being 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 well-being and make youth more proactive to it.”

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INNOVATIONS PAVING WAY FOR QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION IN RAJASTHAN Our priority is to make youth employable and to make the college campuses conducive for the holistic development of the students. Keeping this in focus many entrepreneurship and skill development programs are now being started and some of them are underway in colleges, says Bhanwar Singh Bhati, Minister for Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan, in conversation with Kartik Sharma of Elets News Network (ENN).

What has been your top most priority as Minister of Higher Education?

Our priority is the holistic development of the students. We want the State Higher Education to reach the level where it can match the Global standards. We want our students to grow in an environment where they can become job oriented and are capable of getting jobs globally.

The Government is endeavouring in this direction through its scheme and programmes for students so that they can get career and job oriented opportunities as employment is the major challenge for the youth. We do not want to create just graduates or postgraduates; in fact, we want skillful graduates and postgraduates who can sustain in the fastchanging global world and economy.

What policies and new initiatives have been undertaken by the Government in the last 6-7 months?

Our priority is to make youth employable, and to make the environment conducive for the holistic development of the students. Keeping this in focus, many entrepreneurship and skill development programmes are now being started and some of them are in progress in colleges. We aim to make students employable along with learning which can help them in the creative utilisation of their time and money. Our summer camp programme “Kaushal Unnayan” has met with great success which was organised in 163 government colleges of the State in June.

BHANWAR SINGH BHATI Minister for Higher Education Government of Rajasthan

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What specific has been done for the betterment of the education ecosystem?

Our Government is dedicated towards improving the quality of higher education, its development and creating a healthy educational environment in the State. In a departure from the protocol, we have decided to decentralise the entire process of brainstorming for development plans and creating them.

For this, CM Ashok Gehlot had announced the Resource Assistance and College with Excellence (RACE) for all the colleges. Under this, one college from each district has been nominated as ‘nodal’ and a total of 33 district resource aid committees have been formulated. Through this initiative, we are promoting the process of resource redistribution in the state education system and kick-starting a new chapter of development of the colleges.

Besides, for the first time, we are going to conduct the annual auditing of all the

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government colleges under Annual Auditing Programme, which was again announced in the budget speech by the Chief Minister. This initiative would be a great tool in monitoring the performance and development of the colleges.

Technology is taking over education in a grand manner. What are the technological initiatives in pipeline that can empower the weaker section?

We are going to start an online 24*7 Quick Response System (QRS) scheme to answer the queries of the students on a real-time basis. It is specifically been created for the students who belong to the weaker section of the society and cannot afford to attend expensive coaching classes. Besides, an application has been created for the Universities through which helpline facility for students, monitoring the academic & extracurricular activities of universities, the transmission of orders, and overseeing the work of district resource committees.

We are heavily focusing on imparting employment-related training to students while they are still studying. For this, we have collaborated with Rajasthan Skill and Livelihood Development Corporation (RSLDC). Under this, we will be rendering 34 regular courses for skill development in selected government colleges.

25 Language Labs are being planned to be established in the selected government colleges to help students in grasping the requisite language skills for acquiring jobs in the future.

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We have initiated the process of making college campuses secure, safe and free for the girl students. Girls mentoring cells and internal complaint committee have been set up so that our daughters feel safe and secure when they are away from home. Many programs are organised by our colleges to train girls in self defence.

To promote education in the State, Government has opened 45 new colleges and now we can boast that not a single subdivision in the state is without a college. This shows our determination towards making education accessible to all.

To encourage physically challenged students, our Chief Minister has announced higher education scholarship which is a valuable contribution and help to the students.

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to realize that vision.

These little steps and innovations that the government has taken in last few months will help in creating something large and better.

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RAJASTHAN: TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH INNOVATIONS Rajasthan Government in line with its vision of ensuring employability and skill training among the students has launched various schemes. Moreover, the Government is also emphasising on improving the quality of higher education institutes in the State, says Vaibhav Galriya, Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan, in conversation with Kartik Sharma of Elets News Network (ENN).

What are the unique schemes recently launched by the Higher & Technical Education Department, Government of Rajasthan to improve higher education sector of the State?

Quality education is our aim and underlining this objective, we need few changes in our educational structure. We believe in responding to colleges’ preferences and requirements.

We have come up with decentralisation measures with our scheme of RACE. The scheme is for the colleges and by the colleges. It involves redistribution of resources at local level and it will surely help in improving the condition if colleges that lack resources.

Another innovation has been Annual Auditing Programme which is soon to be launched in colleges. The scheme will bring the institutions at par with the standard of other higher education institutes in the country which indirectly helps in improving the higher education sector in Rajasthan.

Pratiyogita Dakshta Programme has been launched in all the Government Colleges of the State to enhance competitive attitude and to increase their chances of getting employment.

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What initiatives have been undertaken by the department to make education sector vibrant and result-oriented?

With an objective to prepare good academicians, the department has started induction training programme for newly appointed assistant professors. Initiatives like free coaching classes for regular students of the colleges help the department in making education sector vibrant and result-oriented. Subject matter experts in the department are preparing e-content for these classes. The department is also opting for skill education initiatives along with regular studies to make students after their graduation and postgraduation degree.

Please provide a brief description about the administrative initiatives taken for smooth functioning of the department.

The review meetings with the concerned officials of the respective department on regular basis are among the major initiatives that helped in smooth functioning of the department. We have also installed Biometric attendance system for principals and professors. The OIC system installed in various colleges helps in monitoring the progress and problems of the colleges at CCE level.

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With an objective to prepare good academicians, the department has started induction training programme for newly appointed assistant professors.

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How the department is planning to keep up the positive growth of Rajasthan’s education sector in future as well?

We are focussing on the various aspects for betterment of higher education sector. It will help in establishing universities and colleges of global repute and appointment of skilled faculties along with a good support staff.

We are also focussing on addressing the challenge of unemployment among the Rajasthan’s youth. We are also formulating appropriate and innovative strategies for easy and equal access of education among the poor and vulnerable students. The department is striving hard to develop institute of excellence.

What message would you like to give to students?

Education is the secret for the success of any human being and the roots of good learning lie on healthy competition. Keeping his in mind, the department conducted a State-level General Knowledge competition for the students of all the government colleges. It also helped the students to evaluate their calibre. Such competitions are necessary for developing skills and effective knowledge. Moreover, Education breeds confidence and to sustain in this competitive world, it is necessary to develop confidence among our students to prepare them for the future challenges.

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RAJASTHAN REFORMING EDUCATION SECTOR THROUGH INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMES Rajasthan Government, in line with its vision of bringing the education sector at par to the global standards, is adopting latest innovations and practices across the State’s educational ecosystem. Pradeep Kumar Borad, Commissioner, College Education and Special Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan, throws light on such initiatives in an interview with Kartik Sharma of Elets News Network (ENN).

What is your approach to initiate new plans in higher education sector of Rajasthan?

I wish to initiate innovations and reforms with the resources available in the system without any complain about lacking of resources. I am fortunate that I am dealing with three components of education that are College, School, Sanskrit education, therefore I always try to link innovations and reform with the students and youth studying in schools and colleges.

That is the reason why I initiated Bal Sabha programme in school education which I conceived almost one and a half decade ago. This idea has now flourished across state with full support of government departments and public. This program is aiming to assure holistic development of child involving community, especially parents to watch over the performance of Institutions and receiving by their wards. Similarly in college education, I am focusing on multifold task to create vibrations among higher education Institution such as: • Fixing on students welfare centric programs • Promoting environment for quality education • Involving community through alumni meet • Increasing faculty members to contribute their best for the excellence of Institution • Focusing on better infrastructure and faculty in colleges

Pradeep Kumar Borad

Commissioner, College Education and Special Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan

What are your success stories in past six months?

I would like to explain the success stories point wise: • On-time commencement of new academic session after the interval of almost two decades • Conducting state level GK competition for collegiate view on 13th July 2019 • Free Genral Knowledge books distribution to college students. Distribution of approximately 2 lakhs books is being done since 26th January 2019.

• Free coaching classes to college students since 12th June 2019 and more than 5400 students have been registered.

• Monthly test for regular studies to improvise writing

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What are your plans for the department?

We have targeted to ensure maximum attendance of students in colleges and to ensure the best of facilities for students so that a positive environment towards education gets created in the state and these government colleges get more recognition in the state. Secondly, we want to make our students excel in sports.

To ensure the development of sports skills in our students the department has introduced program ‘Arjun Drishti’ and to regularise the sports activities in colleges we have launched an annual sports calendar for all the government colleges in state.

It is very important in terms of overall development of students.

We aim to create lively environment in the colleges so that students and their parents like to visit the colleges.

What are your plans to provide employment opportunities to the students?

We want to provide maximum job opportunities to the students. For that we are aiming to do various good practices like conducting job fairs, connecting students with potential employers, etc. Ensuring job placements of students, on campus

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skills, writing appropriate answers and midterm assessments before appearing into University examinations. For the first time in the history of college education, an exam without invigilator in the examination hall was conducted which was an experiment to let the student learn the lessons of honesty, self-discipline and confidence.

To create a unique identity for the department, we have first time created a logo of the department with the motto “Gyan Se Seva ki Oar”.

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As I mentioned earlier, the Pratiyogita Dakshta program is up and running very successfully, we are gradually trying to expand this program so that we may add the state’s youth other then these students also in this program of giving free coaching for competitive exams. Arjun Drishti, as I said earlier is one crucial program for creating an environment for sports in the colleges.

One new innovative program which we are planning is ‘Idea Bank’. In this program we are seeking ideas from the faculty and other stakeholders of higher education domain. We will evaluate the best of the ideas and will implement them in the higher education ecosystem of the state. The department is reaching to colleges to collect maximum ideas. We are engaging the current and retired teachers of universities and colleges to voluntarily teaching our students. This way we will be able to take help of the vast experience and pool of knowledge that these teachers possess.

What are your future targets to improve higher education in the state?

We are focusing on quality education to all. The department is providing required infrastructure and other facilities to students to make campuses cordial for their development. We are organising alumni meet and dialogue with parents to increase public participation in education. We are promoting innovations in teaching to prepare students for future.

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BILLIMORIA HIGH SCHOOL RAISING RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL CITIZENS At BHS we are a family. Teachers take on the role of parents and fellow students are like siblings.

Our entire team, from academic teachers and dorm parents to support staff come together to ensure that each one of our children is happy, says Aditi Goradia, Managing Director, Billimoria High School (BHS), Panchgani in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

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Performing Arts (Music, Theatre, Elocution, Stand Up Comedy, Dance, etc) Creative Arts (Drawing, Painting, Pottery, Woodwork) Life Enrichment Program (Gardening, Cooking, Creative Writing, Communications, Magazine, Debate, Quiz, etc) Week Without Walls: A program where the core curriculum is experienced in the real world outside the classroom.

Sports at the State and National Level: Football, Basketball, Cricket, Karate, Rifle Shooting, Fencing, Archery, Chess, Carrom, Table Tennis, Gymnastics, Cricket, Capoeira

A good school must have good student-teacher coordination, what methods are followed at Billimoria High School to maintain the same?

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What strategies does Billimoria High School follow for innovation and reforms in its administrative system?

At Billimoria High School it is all about progress through collaboration. We firmly believe that each member of our team right from the management to the academic teachers to the support staff and even our parents have a role to play in the growth and learning of our children. A strict hierarchy and bureaucracy can often be a hindrance. And we rather prefer a process of mutual respect and open communication. In terms of management through technology, our Milgrasp App is an excellent resource to ensure that everything remains on track.

In order to maintain a good learning environment, what activities along with study are conducted at the Billimoria High School?

We believe that the purpose of education is to help our children find themselves. Who they are? What they enjoy and what they are good at? Our children are encouraged to participate in every activity. In order to provide a holistic education, our activities include:

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The key to collaborative learning is a healthy relationship between teachers and students. Being a residential school, most of our team and students reside on campus. This makes us family. We eat all of our meals together. Teachers here are like surrogate parents and the care of the child carries out way beyond the classroom.

How does the school develop a curriculum that is interesting as well as focuses on the holistic development of children at your school?

Our experiential learning initiatives such as our “Week Without Walls” and the Leadership Program are just some of the ways that we bring our curriculum to life.

How does the school meet expectations of parents and requisite Government standards simultaneously?

The success of a child depends heavily on how well the school and the parents are aligned in philosophy. A School’s role is to do all that is necessary to help every child gain the confidence and skill set to face the challenges of the world. Be it the expectations of family members or the generic requirements of exams. Albeit, we find that parents today are beginning to see the need for value education as opposed to numbers and percentages. The CBSE Board as well is working rigorously towards finding a balance in curriculum and assessment that will ensure a better future for our children.

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IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATING GEN Z: A GLOBAL

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PERSPECTIVE The next generation of students thinks, behaves and learns differently as they have been born and raised in the technology-immersed environment. Thus, it becomes significant for the educators to focus on creating student-centric curricula to cater to the interests and preferences of Gen Z learners and involving them as active participants, writes Rumani Arora of Elets News Network (ENN).

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o you remember a 2014 advertisement where a newborn baby cuts his umbilical cord on his own, seconds after coming out of his mother’s womb, simply by learning it from the Internet? No matter how exaggerated it came across then, in present times we are metaphorically moving towards that era where children see technology right after they open their eyes in the world. The impact of technology has become so huge and intermediating that our present generation is living and breathing it.

Dubbed as Gen Z, the next generation of students thinks, behave and learn differently, because they have been born and raised in the technology-immersed environment. It will not be inappropriate to say that members of Generation Z are predominantly digital natives.

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And to educate this league of students effectively, it becomes significant for the educators to focus on creating environments and curricula that are student-centred, matching up to the interests and preferences of Gen Z learners and involving them as active participants. On the whole, technology should be intertwined in such a manner that it becomes an enabler in educating Gen Z. Sharing his views on the same, Shreevats Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management, said, “Technology is medium of communication and learning like not an independent skill in today’s world. The use of technology has to be integrated into every subject through things like using the internet as a tool for research, online submissions, online testing, making presentations etc. Educators both teachers and parents need to be comfortable with technology and excited

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not scared of its unlimited potential to leverage technology to the fullest extent”.

At present, many collaboration technologies including digital projectors, interactive whiteboards and associated mobile device apps are making it smoother to create engaging and interactive experiences for the students.

Chithung Mary Thomas, Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Manipur, said, “Born in the ecology of technology Gen Zers are technology-fluent digital natives. They are a highly informed lot who are likely to be highly independent and competitive. Learning is fully self-directed and autonomous to highlight their best talents. Investments, therefore, ought to be in technology so that experiences are seamless and integrated.

Method of learning should move from structured auditory method to visual hands-on method. Connected classrooms with multiple digital platforms will be the norm to acquire problem-solving skills and peer-to-peer learning”.

Interestingly, Gen Z learners don’t see technology as a tool; they see it as a regular part of life. And this phenomenon can be leveraged by the educators to cater to the ever-changing educational needs of students.

Speaking on the topic, Ryan Pinto, CEO, Ryan International Group of Institution, underlined the ever-growing role of technology and shared how Ryan Group is recognising technology as a regular part of Gen Z’s lives - as well as the world they live in.

“Smartboards and video in classroom are widespread. Flipped classrooms are used in secondary and high school. We have Computer labs in all our schools. BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - is a practice encouraged where appropriate. Parents are kept abreast of school progress, assignments and report cards using the Ryan

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Parent App. Partnerships with Plato (personalised learning app) and Tata Class Edge promise much in terms of teacher support and content management. We have also collaborated with leaders in the tech space like Microsoft and Google to implement ed-tech solutions to enhance learning outcomes,” he shared.

However, we must not overlook the fact that there are certain disadvantages of overuse of technology. Generation Z finds it more challenging to pay attention for long periods due to constant technology use. Thus, the role of educators becomes crucial in terms of dealing with the issue while also preparing students to use technology in the real world.

Sharing her view on this, Sneha Rathor, CEO Academics & Innovations, Sanfort Group of Schools, said, “Don’t take away or restrict technology from generation Z but enable them with the right kind of technology as it is a crucial part of their life. Raising a tech generation it becomes important for the educators also to make technology as an important part of education, as it enables bagless and research-based learning. Moreover introducing technology with the right amount of screen time in the early years also helps in developing hand and eye coordination, increased retention power and language skills”.

There are some simple steps that educators can take at their disposal such as – use technology to make learning more personal, teach digital natives to use technology responsibly, encourage students to take initiatives in their own learning and promote social skills, which can aid iGen learners to get the best of both technology and education. Teachers must increase cooperative learning in their classrooms while also preparing students for their futures by promoting social skills they may need for their careers.

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AICTE: REVISING CURRICULUM IN TUNE WITH CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AICTE has revised the technical and higher education curriculum by involving experts from academia and industry. In the new curriculum, new areas like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Block Chain, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, etc have also been incorporated, says Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN). experiments. What are AICTE’s plans in this regard?

Learning through experiments or experiential learning is very important, not only in technical education but in every field.

Earlier, the emphasis was not there but the New Education Policy talks about it in a significant manner. Experiential learning is not a new concept. From Gurukul system of old times and from ancient universities, it has been retracted back in the modern era to experience the real time challenges in any sector. If we talk about Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, people visit a village and experience the problems and try to solve them.

Similarly, internship in any industry helps students in observing what exactly happens there and learn outside of classroom through variety of activities. Under Such programmes, students experience a phenomenon and learn from it. This is what has been promoted in the New Education Policy.

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With New Education Policy likely to be released in some time, how it will help in strengthening and improving the higher and technical education in India.

The policy itself will not improve the higher and technical education but its implementation will do. Therefore, the threadbare discussion on the entire policy and its implementation scheme will certainly make vibrant higher education system in our country.

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For teachers, it is challenging to update themselves in tune with the changing technologies, how AICTE is helping them to overcome the same?

AICTE has revised its curriculum by involving experts from academia and industry. Once the curriculum is revised, new areas like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Digital technologies, Cloud Computing, Block Chain, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Data Analytics have been incorporated into it. The new curriculum will also help teachers to update with latest skills and inculcate new traits. There are two ways to do it, first that we run courses and where faculty can come and get themselves abreast with the new knowledge.

Second, through our Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform; it will help faculty to learn from the comfort of their homes. It is also significant to create a habit of constant,

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continuous learning – lifelong learning. This is what we want to bring in our faculty.

How incubators are encouraging student for entrepreneurship? What is the role of AICTE in it?

Incubators were earlier considered as different entity, where people from outside the academic institutes were ready to help in developing entrepreneurship and start-ups. But today, large number of incubators has come into existence in the Universities and Institutes.

AICTE’s role is how to promote entrepreneurship while students are graduating, not after completing their course. We have instructed institutes to encourage their students for the courses that will empower them to be entrepreneurs. And also create incubators, accelerators and support system in terms of entrepreneurship cell, innovation cell where students will start working right from their first year. So by the time they will graduate, instead of seeking jobs, they will be able to create jobs for others.

With fresh graduates lacking the relevant practical knowledge, how does the curriculum can be corrected for more exposure and industry engagement?

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AICTE’s role is how to promote entrepreneurship while students are graduating, not after completing their course. We have instructed institutes to encourage their students for the courses that will empower them to be entrepreneurs.

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will allow students to experience the industry life during their graduation. So, it is either three summer vacations of two months each or it will be one full semester where they will go to industry and learn those practices. Moreover, the industry problems given by industry for the students’ projects in their undergraduate studies will also be helpful. All this will nurture capable practical engineers in the future.

What message would you like to give to our youth??

Many a time’s people think that demand for engineers is declining. But, I am giving assurance that world is so large and there are ample opportunities present. Because engineering education is one where you methodically study physics, chemistry and math on one side, lot of hands on wherein you learn many things – experiments, critical thinking, analytical ability, mathematical ability which will help in any domain you go outside later.

Secondly, India due to its demographic dividend, the entire world which is aging, there are enough opportunities for jobs not only in India but the rest of the world. Within the country, whether it is Skill India, Make in India, Swachh Bharat, Digital India or Unnat Bharat Abhiyan; every activity of the Government has potential for engineers to play an important role.

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CBSE: COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION The main objective of the Central Board of Education (CBSE) is to serve the educational institutions effectively and to be responsive to the educational needs of those students, says Dr Biswajit Saha, Director (Training & Skill Education), CBSE, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

In line with Government’s vision of skilling the Indian youth, what initiatives have been undertaken by the CBSE? The CBSE has tried to include various skill-oriented subjects in its curriculum both at secondary and senior secondary level. In class ninth and tenth, we are offering 17 skill-oriented courses catering to the requirements of all sectors. Similarly at Senior Secondary level, CBSE is offering 43 courses ranging from Artificial Intelligence to early childhood education, yoga, retail, tourism, media etc. We have tried to cover all the areas such as engineering, healthcare, banking and finance along with others through these courses. Out of 21,000 schools affiliated to CBSE, 8,000 schools are imparting skill-oriented education and training with enrollment of around seven lakh students so far.

It is also important that higher education sector must encourage the skill training among its students as there are still visible gaps between Industry and Academia despite the efforts of Union and State Government. Government is also aiming to develop the schools as Skill Development Centres as their excellent infrastructure is underutilised after two pm.

It will boost the skill training, community service and social empowerment. Such training will also support in nurturing globally competitive citizens who will be ready to work in any country of the world. Ultimately the quality education and effective skill training help in India’s economic development.

With New Education Policy (NEP) likely to release in few months, how is CBSE improving its guidelines to be in line with the needs of two most important stakeholders i.e. teachers and students?

The New Education Policy is still at draft stage. There are so many components in it that are really encouraging but at the same time we are also raising our concerns about school education. As far as promoting skill education and vocational training in schools is concerned, the NEP is focusing on the same in a good way. To impart quality education in schools,

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CBSE is emphasising on category-wise teachers’ training.

With the help of good teachers, we are now trying to convert classrooms into learning spaces. In this regard, CBSE has so far established 16 Centres of Excellence across the country.

With these centres, we are conducting various workshops and seminars on teachers’ training.

Moreover, under the guidance of our Chairperson Anita Karwal, we have developed several manuals for principals, school management, officials and other staff. We are targeting for holistic development in schools and that’s why several initiatives have been taken by the CBSE in this regard. Changing the school ecosystem regularly is not a solution rather we are eyeing for that one change which is sustainable. In line with this, we are encouraging development of 21st century skills like collaborations, creativity, and problem solving along enhancing academic skills.

Not only the new policy but also the previous initiatives like National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 are very helpful for improving the quality of education. NCF 2005 is so apt that if principals and teachers follow it, the education sector will

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automatically witness a positive momentum.

How do you think the technology is helping students in improving their learning outcomes and teachers in their knowledge delivery methodologies?

Technology was a key player in educations; it is a key player and it will remain a key player. The context may change but technology’s role will remain the same. Starting from industry to school space, it has a very effective role. We require more orientation programmes for teachers as students are already well versed with the technology. It is so as the teachers’ role is very crucial. As in the present scenario, teachers need to be more tech savvy and for the same content, a more innovative lecture methodology is required. It will facilitate real learning. So, implementing technology is not the only solution rather setting the context, customisation and student-centric learning is also required. Teachers are nowadays

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needed to be psychological experts as it will help them to understand students’ needs. Teachers must go through technological innovations in the changed situation as it will help them enhance their domain knowledge as well.

How does the recently announced budget likely to boost the Indian education landscape??

Budget is very important for a nation’s development and it also gives hope. Year-byyear, the Government is increasing its focus on education sector and bringing positive reforms.

The initiatives announced in Union Budget 201920 like National Research Foundation, skilling, and teachers’ training etc will cause positive momentum in Indian education landscape.

The Union Budget 2019-20 will also help the State Governments, Entrepreneurs and Eduentrepreneurs to frame their strategies in a way that provides a positive growth to Indian education.

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NCERT: PAVING WAY FOR ONE NATION - ONE SYLLABUS CONCEPT The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is the apex resource organisation to assist and advice the Central and State Governments in the formulation and implementation of their policies and programmes in the field of education, particularly school education and teachers’ training, says Major Harsh Kumar, Secretary, NCERT, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

NCERT has completed more than 50 Years of “Leading the Change” in Indian education, what are the major achievements of the educational body in the last five decades?

If you ask about the achievements of NCERT, one can see that in the entire country, NCERT books are being read in order to maintain standards of education.

Since education is on the concurrent list, it is not a compulsive thing. Today, 28 States follow NCERT curriculum subject to the changes as per their requirement. We are trying for “One Nation One Syllabus” concept though we have different boards with different policies but this is presently a guideline only by NCERT but not a compulsion.

Besides, NCERT is conducting NAS (National Achievement Survey) after preparing a document on learning outcomes.

The document describes about what a child should learn at a particular stage and what should be the outcome of that. On basis of that, we have been able to find out the gaps and it will be helpful in formulating the New Education Policy (NEP).

How the emergence of technology is helpful in developing a futuristic and compulsive curriculum?

If you visit our website, you will see CIET – where you can find digitalise books – the methods which are available for students free of cost. We also have apps which are rated as one of the best ones. We are moving on the aspect of digitalising the things. We have also developed tactile books for differently-abled children.

Government is going to release the New Education Policy (NEP) soon, what’s the role of NCERT in improving its guidelines?

NCERT is working in the field of education particularly school education and teachers’ training and also supporting Central and

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State Governments in formulation and implementation of their policies and initiatives in the field of education.

The NEP document has details about teachers’ education and teachers’ training and where we stand today. We have got our Regional Institute of Education (RIE) where we impart teacher education. We have got five demonstrative multipurpose schools also.

NCERT is imparting primary to a professional level training for BEd and Med degrees. We are the premier institute of training the teachers. The teachers trained from RIE are in high demand.

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In most of the Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs), one will find the students of RIE as teachers.

There’s even a proposal that it should be encouraged across the country and very soon, we are going to come up with the new RIE at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh.

Encouraging teachers’ training will definitely improve quality of education in the country. NCERT also provide pre-service teacher education and in-service teacher education. We keep on conducting workshops for teachers who are currently in service.

What are the challenges NCERT faces in aligning its different Constituents & Departments to facilitate the smooth operation of its Programmes?

NCERT endeavours to make school education learner-centric and student-friendly, how well it has fared so far and what is the roadmap ahead?

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It has fared very well so far. This year we are publishing around six crore textbooks. There is a massive increase in the publication of these books. 28 states are recommending our books. Even the Kendriya Vidyalayas abroad recommend our content. Foreign countries are referring our content and books.

It is methodical order on which it is based. That’s why people prefer NCERT books. It starts with the basics.

When you see the books you will find the difference how it is has been explained. We have got a channel on SWAYAM platform where the programme is run for the students.

The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) at Delhi is digitalizing the content by NCERT. We have got all our content online, free of cost.

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Our team is working on the aforesaid and every day we are innovating something new. With the implementation on new policies, you will find many differences and then the things will be clearer in the next few months. We are going to conduct many new things this year, they are in the pipeline.

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For teachers – continuous training is required. It’s not that when they are in the service training ends but training is required throughout the service. That is why NCERT is conducting in-service training continuously. We have got a programme – Pindicts, in which teacher find out his/her can own capability that how he/she is faring. It is available online free of cost.

For students, not as Secretary of NCERT, but as an individual, I would like to tell students that they have to dream and dream big. They need to endeavour to realise those dreams. And how they can realise is that they should have faith in themselves and not depend on Government machinery. Rather than they should be working independently. Students should dream big and strive to achieve it with their hard work and whatever they believe to do.

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AHSEC: COMMITTED TO IMPART GLOBAL LEVEL EDUCATION Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is the apex body for prescribing curricula (scheme of studies), syllabus and courses of instruction for higher secondary stage which may be in a college/higher secondary school, says Kamal Gogoi, Secretary, Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

What new initiatives have been undertaken by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council to make higher education easily accessible to all in the state?

The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is the apex body to regulate, supervise and develop the + 2 education (Sr Secondary/Higher Secondary) in the State. Assam is the land of multi cultural and multi lingual communities with people having diversified needs as per their geographical and economical existence. In such a State, through various initiatives listed below, the council is trying to make the education accessible to all: • Recognising the institutions from every corner of the state • Introducing need based subjects • Information are shared through website so that everyone can assess easily • Arranging teacher training program in each and every corner of the state, so that all the teachers can be trained properly • Introduction of Online submission of Registration and Examination Form

Globally many universities/institutes are following innovative practices to improve teaching-learning process. What are the board’s plans to bring the education eco system at par with the world?

“As leaders in education, our job is not to control those whom we serve, but to unleash their talent. If innovation is going to be a priority in education, we need to create a culture where trust is the norm,” said George Couros -- A leading Canadian educator in areas of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning.

To bring the education eco system at par with the world, the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has introduced technology-based elective subjects such as Entrepreneurship Development, Multimedia and Web Technology, Retail Trade, IT/ ITes, and a number of need-based Vocational Subjects.

It is difficult for students to understand various concepts due to disconnected facts. Organised information connected with concepts and with tools to visualise the same lead to longterm understanding of what is being taught. Realising the fact,

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Secretary, Assam Higher Secondary Education Council

digital classrooms have been introduced initially in some of the institutions out of 1432 recognized by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council.

How does the New Education policy likely to help Assam in transforming the education sector??

The National Education Policy 2019 is built on the foundational pillars of “Access, Equity, Affordability and Accountability”.

For Assam, a major reconfiguration of curricular and pedagogical structure is proposed in school education with Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) as an integral part it. With the proposed structure of 5+3+3+4 curricular and pedagogical structure based on cognitive and socio emotional developmental stages, the schools will be re-organised into school complexes.

The Curriculum load of the learners will be also reduced.

The burden of curriculum will also be reduced in terms of examination by transforming it into semester system. Students

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will get the opportunity to go for deeper understanding that will help them to become more competent. The New Education Policy also aimed to promote active pedagogy that will focus on the development of core capacities, life skills, and 21st century skills.

There is a huge educational gap between rural and an urban area of India, what role does Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is playing to bridge it?

To minimise the gap between the education scenario of rural and urban areas, the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has organised zonal-level training programmes on teaching pedagogy, different competitions, and tournaments etc. Students and teachers irrespective of either they belong to rural or urban areas are allowed to join it.

The selection of teachers has been done with utmost care so that they are selected in equal proportion from urban as well as rural areas. The objective is to develop the homogeneous academic atmosphere across the State. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council feels proud to announce that the Higher Secondary Schools and Junior Colleges from rural areas also exhibited excellence in final examination with 100% of passing rate.

How does the recently announced budget likely to boost the State’s higher education landscape?

At present the Government of Assam has exempted students

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from paying admission fee, examination fee of Class X and Class XII. Also the Government is providing free textbooks to the students of Class X and XII. This year budgeted amount seems to be meager than the previous years. It will depend upon utilisation of the last year’s budgeted amount by the State Government.

How do you think the technology is helping students in improving their learning outcomes and teachers in their knowledge delivery methodology?

The 21st century is the era of technology. To make the teachinglearning process effective, integration of technology in and outside the classroom is inevitable. Though there is also a fear that the technology would eventually replace the teachers, but the more prevalent view now is that it is a tool which can be applied to enhance conventional teaching rather than replace it.

The use of technology helps in • Enhancing the literacy rate • Restructuring teaching methods keeping in view the objective of learning • Teachers in showcasing the content distinctly and students can develop skills essential for the 21st century.

Online courses, teaching aids, different educational softwares, social networking tools, and other emerging technologies help the teachers as well as students to become more competent. Open Educational Resources [OER] help teachers as well as learners to become competent.

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BOSEM TAKING MODERN EDUCATION IN ITS STRIDE The Board of Secondary Education, Manipur, is the apex school education regulatory body in the State. With 786 high and higher secondary schools (226 Government, 103 Government aided and 457 Private), BOSEM also takes care of conducting examination and conditions for granting recognition, says Dr Chithung Mary Thomas, Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

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What are your expectations from the “National Education Policy” with regards to the meeting the educational requirements of North East, especially Manipur?

The draft National Education Policy 2019 can be viewed as highly futuristic (and technology-driven) which merits justification considering the rapid technological advancements made in recent years.

The challenge lie in assimilating the policy in view of the disparities and developmental gaps between the different regions across the country in terms of physical, technological, social and manpower infrastructure.

The North Eastern States of India have lagged behind in all development indices. It is only recently that concerted development efforts have trickled in with the initiatives of the “Act East Policy”. In Manipur, the State Government has taken up such bold steps as amalgamation of non-performing schools which will pave the way for opening new schools categories of such as are in line with the NEP 2019. However, the opening of ‘Special Education Zones’ as cited in the policy contradicts the survival of single schools in remote villages of Manipur. Thrust areas for Manipur would have to be sports, performing arts, vocational skills and crafts, computer & IT.

How do you see the Union Budget 2019-20 as far as education sector is concerned? Do you think allocation of Rs 400 crore for building world class institutions will bring the required change?

The overall direction of the budget 2019 seems

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progressive for the education sector. Allocations reflect that it is driven by ground realities. The budgetary allocation of Rs 400 crore for building World class institutions is encouraging. World class institution however, is not solely dependent on finance but also on the understanding, inspiration, motivation and quality of all the stakeholders involved in education.

I strongly feel that standards of schools at K-12 level should be emphasised. Unless done so, big universities may not be able to stand on the loose soils of a weak elementary & secondary level education.

What is your outlook towards the emergence of technology in education?

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Technological advancements in the recent past have been explosive and irreversible. The dismay is that NCF-2005 framed 15 years ago is being followed till date leading to a mismatch in knowledge and curriculum making both obsolete. Technology is now indispensable and therefore it has become imperative to stress tech-based curriculum right from childhood in letter and in spirit.

What makes Board of Secondary Education (BOSEM) stand apart from the rest of the Boards of the country? Any exclusive initiatives have you undertaken that you want to highlight?

Established in 1972, the BOSEM develops curriculum and publishes text books up to secondary level in line with NCF and NCERT specifications.

The state is a mini-India in all its diversity. 13 tribal dialects have been introduced in the curriculum as first language. To enhance academic values of the rich and varied culture of the state Thang Ta (local martial art), Eshei Nongmai (Music), Manipur Jagoi (dance) and Fine Arts are also introduced.

BOSEM has been one of the first boards in the North Eastern States to have introduced computerised codification of answer scripts in 2014, Bar code and OMR based evaluation since

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2016. Since 2018, all records of students have been logged with National Security Depository Limited and Database Management Ltd (NDML) for online availability of students’ degrees, diplomas, certificates mark sheets etc. The first among the NE States to be integrated with DigiLocker under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is under process.

How content are you with the BOSEM 2019 result of HSLC and SSLC? The result of HSLC 2019 has recorded the highest pass percentage since its inception in 1972. Examination reforms like conversion of all examination centres into Board centres, Bar coding in answer scripts, multi level coding, live monitoring of evaluation were successfully implemented.

Government schools showed marked improvement both in terms of student enrolment and pass percentage which can be attributed to the “School Fagathansi Mission” initiated by the Govt. of Manipur. It aims at overall improvement of government schools in terms of physical and manpower insfrastructural gaps. Another initiative is ‘Lairik Tamhallasi Mission” (No child left behind).

This is aimed to bring ‘out of school children’ within age group of 15-18 yrs back to the formal school system.

With the co-ordinated efforts from the fraternity of Education and with the implementation of the NEP, 2019, I hope that the challenges will be overcome so that the objective of education is achieved.

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How challenging it is to create a curriculum which is knowledgeable, futuristic and compulsive at the same time?

In Manipur, the State Government has taken up such bold steps as amalgamation of non-performing schools which will save the way for opening new schools categories of such as are in line with the NEP 2019.

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iCALIBRATOR IMPROVING EDUCATION SUCCESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY iCalibrator leverages the power & potential of patented technology in adoption of Outcome Based Education (OBE) Framework through Paperless Assessments and Analytics (PAA), says Pramod Saini, CTO, iCalibrator, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What was the idea behind setting up the company?

The idea was to create a B2B platform where each candidate’s skillset or caliber could be assessed against highest established industry standards.

Please describe about the innovations of iCalibrator in last two years to improve its products and remain ahead of its competitors?

United States Patent & Trademark office (USPTO) approval on our Patent is a testimonial to our efforts in being innovative and we shall continue this journey, be it for our technology or customer processes. We have designed a complete ecosystem around understanding of a student’s potential and a feedback mechanism to Universities for personalizing the education deliverables.

What are the major products of the organisation and how they are helping in improving the education sector?

Intelligent Paperless Education System (iPES) and Paperless Assessment & Analytics (PAA) are our two main products. The paperless system, comprising subjective examination on tablets with pen, makes the whole experience safer & operationally exceptional. With analytics on formative and summative assessments, it not only enables improved decision making by focusing on patterns that indicate student success but also help universities to strategise assessment methodology and map student’s performance results with program outcome.

What do you think are some futuristic ways that companies like iCalibrator can look forward to contributing towards the education sector?

Research Simulation Labs on Tabs (RSLT) to provide a connected personalised learning experience to students and would use

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) to coach students into careers that suit their aptitude the best.

What is organization’s vision for upcoming years?

Develop enablers that shall empower education to capitalise technology in delivering comprehensive education eco-system.

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ounded by the Jindal Education and Welfare Society, OP Jindal University (OPJU) Raigarh (CG) was established by an Act of Legislature in the state assembly of Chhattisgarh in 2014. OPJU aims to develop young professionals and future leaders who will not only power growth and development in the state, but also make a mark globally.

At the core of the university’s philosophy and approach lies the belief that students learn best when exposed to real world situations and enriching interactions with practitioners and professors. We at OPJU believe that every student has innate potential that can be unlocked through quality teaching and mentorship.

We aim to build an institution where students learn by doing, where real world challenges find practical solutions and innovation happens by design and not by chance. It is an attempt to make world class education accessible to deserving students both in metros and in smaller towns of India. Through its modern infrastructure, multidisciplinary programmes and enriching campus life — the University aims to create an exemplary talent pool not only for India but also for the world. The close proximity of the Group’s companies like Jindal Steel and Power Limited, Jindal Power Ltd, Nalwa Steel & Power Limited etc provides the students of the OPJU with unique access to real-life projects and mentorship of senior professionals from industry.

We have faculty with rich global teaching and corporate experience. The central theme of our pedagogy is “Learning by Doing”.

• Problem Project Based Learning - to get insight using Experiential Learning • Case Studies and Analysis - to develop Critical Thinking and Analysis

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Conferences, Workshops, Seminars etc. - to keep students abreast of latest happenings in the Industry and tech world Extracurricular events, TechFest (Technorollix) - to develop an all round personality, Industrial training and Industrial visits [every semester] to have a live Field and Industry Exposure Moodle [LMS], NPTEL, MOOCs, ERP - to promote lifelong learning and adoption of digital technologies

WHY RECRUIT @ OPJU OPJU is the only University in Central India - promoted, associated and surrounded by Industries. Corporate and Industries need right kind of attitude, aptitude and a wide range of skills besides good academic achievements. At OPJU we provide you with a platform to interact assess and recruit from a pool of competitive and qualitative Industry Ready Professionals.

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have good technical fundamentals complimented with Industrial exposure are grounded and well versed with industrial work environment have been groomed and mentored to contribute and add value to organisation/system. are placed in many reputed national and multi-national companies. are our brand ambassadors and will be an asset for your organisation.

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CHITKARA UNIVERSITY — RE-INVENTING EDUCATION 4.0 ADVERTORIAL

Enabling Future Leaders Explore their Potential

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t was in 2002 that Chitkara Educational Trust established its Punjab campus, near Chandigarh, on the Chandigarh-Patiala National Highway. In the year 2010, this campus became Chitkara University, a private University established through an Act by the Punjab State Legislature.

When a University is founded by two passionate teachers with over four decades of experience in grooming students, it gets reflected in their final products. The efforts of Dr Ashok K Chitkara and Dr Madhu Chitkara have made Chitkara University reach on top in placements for nearly a decade now. Since the last few years, Chitkara University based in Punjab & Himachal Pradesh have pioneered startup incubation with outstanding results. Two of the incubated projects bagged top rankings in an International competition for start-ups across UK, China and India, recently. Chitkara University is also home to one of the largest portfolio of innovative courses in diverse fields.

Any world-class University is not only known for its holistic but also for its productive interventions into the world around it. Great Universities pursue this path because any University can produce a job aspirant whereas it takes a dynamic and a diverse University to create a true leader in any field. Chitkara University which aspires to be world-class in everything it does has been supporting all such social interventions, so that it creates leaders and not just followers.

Chitkara Education brings with it a reputation that has been earned through years of serving the career needs of the student community.

Chitkara University graduates go on to make great careers, as they have hands-on experience in their respective fields.

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programs in the country which speaks volumes about their string academic heritage, highly committed faculty, extensive industry collaborations, great International relations, and State of the Art campus facilities. Recently, Chitkara hosted State Youth Parliament 2019, organized by the NSS Department in collaboration with the Regional Directorate Office, Chandigarh. The main objective of National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 is to hear the voice of Indian youth between 18 to 25 years of age, who are allowed to vote but cannot stand as a candidate for elections, through deliberations in Youth Parliament at different levels.

With engineering education being a major thrust area for Chitkara University, it has always been working diligently to better its own Engineering Programs, as well as to support National and International initiatives. Recently, Chitkara University hosted the prestigious ICTIEE 2019 (The International Conference on Transformation in Engineering Education), at their Punjab Campus.

Chitkara University in association with Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) has been continuously working to improve Engineering Education Ecosystem in India. Its objective is to improve the quality and global relevance of Engineering Education in India.

The well-attended conference included keynote sessions, panel discussions and workshops by experts around the world. An important part of the conference was presentations by renowned Engineering faculty who already have great experience in transforming their own curriculum, classrooms and programs.

The conference was attended by some of the world-renowned Engineering Educators and Practitioners like Dr. Michael Milligan (CEO, ABET), Dr. Hans Hoyer (President, IFEES), Dr. Stephanie Farrell (Rowan University), B. Ramkrishna (Director, NAE Grand Challenges

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Chitkara Univeristy recently achieved significant acknowledgement in International start-up domain. The University incubation initiatives, named Chitkara University Research and Innovation Network (CURIN) and the Chandigarh based Chitkara Innovation Incubator, are the places where its researchers, faculty and aspiring student entrepreneurs work across various disciplines to extend the boundaries of knowledge so that their projects can be executed.

An event titled Ingenuity-2018 Innovation Challenge was hosted by a UK based University, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

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where Chitkara Univeristy participated as a competitor from India along with China and United Kingdom. While only a select group of 17 teams from these three nations got to participate in this highprofile event, Chitkara University could send four teams, in association with the public facility, Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC). Ingenuity 2018 Innovation Challenge has several tiers of winners. Out of the 17 teams, only top 10 teams got an Exclusive International Pass for having swift business establishment with local government support in China and in the UK. The top 6 among them will be co-founded in India, China and the UK. Two teams from Chitkara Univeristy, could make it to this category. Chitkara University’s project, a farm engineering start-up called MOKSH bagged the First position and a Gold medal among all 17 International projects. The winning USP of MOKSH was the global importance of an innovative idea that simplifies the life of a farmer’s post-harvest and helps them earn more from crop waste. MOKSH is headed by its Founder Dr. Nitin Saluja, an entrepreneur from the Chitkara Innovation Incubator, Chandigarh.

The second winning project from Chitkara University was DAT, an incubated company which makes Braille Education for the blind easy across the globe. It was declared as the ‘Best International Project’ at the event. They won 10,000 UK pounds by Hayden Green Foundation, UK. E-Braille Slate is a project devised by DAT for making education for the blind painless and comfortable. The project, under the supervision of Chitkara University Centre for Research and Innovation (CURIN), has a high international relevance as it addresses millions of people with blindness. This project was especially applauded by the Jury and the present audience.

Such achievements by students of Chitkara University can be traced back to the passion of its founders. The University has been founded by Dr. Ashok K Chitkara and Dr. Madhu Chitkara who have been passionate teachers for more than 40 years now. As Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor respectively, they are not just founders but handson leaders at the campus. This continuous support and presence has proven to be a major edge in the field of education and hence the Chitkara Educational Trust.

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Scholars Program), Dr. Rao Vemuri (University of California), Dr. Lueny Morell (InnovaHiED, USA), and many more.

Chitkara University also promotes the well-being and achievements of school going as well as college going students. It extends the same beyond its own student community too. Recently, Chitkara University in collaboration with RoboChamps, Chhapai.com and RoboGenie, conducted International School Awards, the world’s largest education conference and award show in Dubai. And most interestingly, Chitkara University alumni Akshay Ahuja is the Co-founder of RoboChamps India and RoboGenie.

The event witnessed participation from 500 representatives from educational institutions of 20 different countries. A total of 180 schools and educators took home the awards in various categories, which had received over 12,000 nominations. A first-of-its-kind Educational event on a Global scale, International School Awards, served as a platform to brainstorm and recognize excellence, and transformational approaches in the field of education.

However, Chitkara’s social interventions for the benefit of its students are most impactful in the start-up sphere. Universities today cannot afford to ignore entrepreneurship development and start-up incubation, given the high momentum start-ups have achieved in India . While most private universities worth their names have started start-up promotion cells, very few have fully operational Incubation Centres.

Even for Private Universities with their own Incubation Centres, it is an uphill task for delivering the promised, as unlike degrees and placements; start-ups do not become successful with hard work alone. It calls for brilliant ideas, the right enabling ecosystem and real entrepreneurial brains that can be utilised productively.

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EMBIBE: CHANGING THE FACE OF EDUCATION SCHOOL PERSPECTIVE

Free learning content and AI-powered personalised recommendations provided by Embibe help students achieve their best scores, improve question attempt strategy, and time management, says Aditi Avasthi, CEO, Embibe, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What is the Genesis behind setting up Embibe?

Embibe came into being with the aim of democratising education.

We wanted to solve the problem of standardised education forced upon students. We wanted to personalise the crucial mentoring and academic guidance needed by every student in India, where even half a mark can define the access to a particular college.

Another crucial aspect that Embibe addresses is that it makes every student feel that he/she has equal chances of getting selected in an exam, regardless of their academic background.

With personalised learning as need of the hour, how does Embibe ensure that it addresses the needs of all the students?

Embibe’s extensive three-dimensional knowledge graph hosts over 40,000 concepts with seven lakh interconnections. All learning content is available in the form of best of the web videos and question banks, with interactive 3D slideshows and e-books to be featured soon. Embibe leverages a unique mix of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to understand the learning patterns of students and existing knowledge to build on, which is unique to every student. It then accordingly suggests the most effective personalised learning path for every learner to help them achieve real-life goals, regardless of their level of ability, exposure and access.

Along with urban, rural and remote areas of the country also have students with good talent, how is Embibe ensuring equitable access of knowledge with them?

Embibe’s system has been optimised to work on low bandwidth Internet and on low-cost devices at scale, as Internet connectivity becomes a concern for students in rural areas of the country.

Despite hosting over 19 million students who cumulatively spend 16 million hours on 230 million sessions, Embibe’s system works seamlessly regardless of connectivity, device and geography. The most important benefit for students is that all the content on Embibe and its features including Learn, Practice and Test are free-for-all.

How is Embibe using technologies like analytics and AI to overcome various challenges related to

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Indian education domain?

What we have seen in India is that education is standardised for all and scores decide the college and future opportunities for a student. But what we have found out using Data Science is that learning style varies for each student. So Embibe employed Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to give personalised guidance to every student, ensuring they achieve their academic goals. Embibe’s Knowledge Graph enables students across age groups to connect the dots between concepts. Students can now go back and master a concept from previous years that is affecting their current preparation.

What are some products that Embibe is working on for growth of its presence in educational market?

One of the products currently in the pipeline is LEARNUP, which is a complete learning and learning outcomes solution for K-12 students and teachers. It aims to make learning even more immersive and interactive for students using 3D slideshows, videos and real-life scenarios.

Another offering is RANKUP, a personalised scoreimprovement programme for aspirants of JEE, NEET and several other competitive exams. RANKUP pinpoints a student’s weaknesses in academic knowledge, test taking skills and behaviour, before giving highly personalised improvement plans and strategies to convert these weaknesses into strengths.

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NIT MEGHALAYA CONTRIBUTING TO NATION’S DEVELOPMENT ADVERTORIAL

THE INSTITUTE The National Institute of Technology Meghalaya is one among the thirty-one NITs in India established in 2010 under the NIT Act 2007 (Amended 2012) of the Parliament of India as an Institutes of National Importance with full funding support from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Its permanent campus is currently under development at Cherrapunjee. The campus will come up with state-of-the-art infrastructures and all the necessary modern amenities while maintaining harmony with the serene environment of Cherrapunjee. The aim is to build it to a Centre of Excellence in education and research in the fields of engineering, science and technology. The vision is to develop it as an Institution vibrant with academic activities and bubbling with youthful creative energy despite the challenges it faces due to its apparent disadvantage, primarily its remote location. Despite its being a new institute, NIT Meghalaya boasts of exceptional teaching, learning and research credentials and has featured within the top 100 ranked engineering institute of the nation consistently in National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF), since its inception in 2016. In 2019, the institute has been ranked 67th in the engineering category.

THE CURRICULUM NIT Meghalaya has nine different departments consisting of five engineering departments, three basic science departments and a Humanities and Social Science Department. The Engineering Departments are; Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, whereas the Science Departments are; Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The institute offers courses through B Tech, M Tech, MSc and PhD programmes. The curricula for all these programmes have been redesigned with a rigorous brainstorming exercises and inputs from experts from other institutes of higher learning, industries of various kinds, practicing engineers and senior alumni.

The present curriculum presents a state-of-the-art basket for all the programmes. It encompasses the entire range of studies from fundamentals to advanced study and the applications keeping an eye on the present day’s requirement as well as the future prospective and will help the students to become industry-ready.

Highlights of the new curricula are: Open Electives, Professional Electives, Core courses, Vocational Courses, Laboratory courses, Industry visits, Internship etc.

SKILL ORIENTED COURSES The new curriculum in place provides a lot of scope for the

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students to develop various kinds of skills as per their own aptitude and interest. Some of the examples include; Simultaneous Theory and Laboratory courses, courses on Industrial Safety and Entrepreneurship, Mini and Major Projects, Mandatory Internship, Establishment of Knowledge Centre, Incubation Centre, and Skill Development Centre etc. for developing knowledge and designing and creating products.

PLACEMENT RELATED INNOVATION The Centre for Career Development (CCD) that takes care of the placement of the student in the institute has been striving its best to provide the best of the opportunities to the students. The Centre leaves no stones unturned in adopting various methods that will be helpful in attracting employers to look at our students and see the students coming out with flying colours whenever they get an opportunity. Some of the innovations that the centre has made can be mentioned as follows.

• Widening visibility of the institute and its achievements across industries, • Finishing courses for the final year students • Job-oriented courses and career guidance by experts from outside • Including industry personnel in course delivery to make the students industry-ready • Introducing job levels and industry clusters to attract more employers • Job categorisation to provide choices to the students.

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GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS: Our institute and the faculty have already established collaborations with various Universities of the following countries: University

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Melbourne

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Pontifical Catholic University of Sรฃo Paulo

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Canada

University of Windsor

Department of Civil Engineering

Croatia

University of Windsor

Department of Mathematics

Finland

University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

France

INRA &Inria Sophia Antipolis

Department of Mathematics

Greece

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Department of Electrical Engineering

Australia Brazil

University of Yucatan

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Germany

Shimane University University of Tokyo Tokyo University of Science

Department of Physics Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Chemistry Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Poland

Military University of Technology Poland

Department of Physics

Russia

Institute for Complex Analysis of Regional Problems Saint Petersburg University

Department of Mathematics Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

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Pohang University of Science and Technology Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Changwon National University

Department of Chemistry Department of of Mechanical Engineering

South Africa

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Department of Mathematics

Sweden

Jรถnkรถping University

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Tamkang University Chang Gung University

Department of Mathematics Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

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Texas Tech University Texas A&M University University of Wyoming University of Minnesota The University of Akron

Department of Chemistry Department of Mathematics Department of of Mechanical Engineering

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University of Salford University of Lincoln University of Glasgow

Department of Mathematics Department of Chemistry Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

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New York University, Abu Dhabi

Department of Chemistry

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Shantou University

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Vienna University of Technology JoahannesKepler University Linz

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ITS ENGINEERING COLLEGE – IMPARTING TECHNOLOGY-BASED LEARNING of new ideas with financial assistance through Department of Science & Technology. The college has a strong Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell to encourage innovative thinking and development of entrepreneurship spirit amongst the students which is supported by MSME and Department of Science & Technology- Govt. of India.

LEADERSHIP Dr R P Chadha is the Chairman of the ITS –The Education Group.

He has been awarded doctorate for his exceptional contribution to the field of higher education and health sciences. In 2011, ZEE TV honoured him with the “Jewel of Uttar Pradesh” award. He is also awarded “Life time Achievement and contribution to the field of Dentistry” by Federation Dentaire International (FDI).

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TS Engineering College, Greater Noida is a part of ITS –The Education Group has a rich legacy of two and a half decades and has made its mark through exceptional teaching and learning practices in the areas of Engineering, Management, Dental, and Pharmacy education.

The College, established in 2006, offers B Tech programme in Mechanical, Civil, Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, and Electrical & Electronics along with Master of Business Administration. It has six unique “Centres of Excellence” with industry collaboration to train students on the latest technologies.

These are run and supported by ace companies like National Instruments, Rockwell, Apple iOS Apps Development Centre, Syscom Innovation Development Centre, Rockwell Automation, Software Testing Lab and SMC Pneumatics & Electro-pneumatics.

ITS Engineering College is the only institute in Uttar Pradesh to receive New Gen Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Centre, which focuses on generation and further development

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ITS Engineering College believes that budding engineers have, at least, one of the three major aspirations: • Aspiration to get placed- For students aspiring corporate placement, there are Centers of Excellence that impart Technical training.

• Aspiration to start their own venture- For students aspiring to start their own venture, the college offers a well-defined process of ideation, incubation & start-up.

• Aspiration to join higher education or work in Public Sector Undertakings- Students who aspire to join higher education or work in Public Sector Undertakings, the college supports them for preparation of GATE so that they ensure good scores required for such placements.

PLACEMENTS ITS Engineering College’s Corporate Resource Centre (CRC) is a dependable and one stop solution for its talented students. Batch 2015-19 has already received more than 365 offers from reputed Indian and Multinational companies. We are in the top 10 rankings in the Start Ups segment among private Engineering colleges affiliated to Dr APJAKTU, Lucknow.

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FUTURISTIC EDU INITIATIVES PROVIDING WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION TO CHILDREN Futuristic Edu Initiatives forayed into the field of education with a one-point agenda of providing world-class education to children to make them globally competitive. Today, with commitment and dedication, the group has redefined education with its progressive concepts, says Narendra Prasad E, Founder and MD, Futuristic Edu Initiatives, Hyderabad, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What are your expectations from the Government’s new education policy? How will it change the face of the education in India?

The present education system is designed as one size fits all specially in primary and secondary schools. In this system students get limited chance to explore their interests in arts, music and sports as the curriculum is rigid. This system gives no freedom for students to choose their interests thus leaving the students to feel bored or uninteresting, which further leads to failure. We think that the students should enjoy learning, which can only happen only if, their interests are aligned with the curriculum, which further improves students self confidence. We believe this helps the student to develop an attitude towards learning, which further enhances the personality of the students and gives him/ her enough courage to tackle any circumstances in life and contribute for society.

At undergraduate level, the main focus of the education policy is to make students tested on the theoretical skills and awarded degrees on the marks . We feel that this can easily be obtained by reading prescribed text books and reproducing the same in the form of an answer in semester exams, thus getting a good GPA and recognised as a good engineer/doctor.

But, this mere knowledge is not helping the brilliant students in their performance in the industry. We believe that on the job training and hands-on working as a part of curriculum will give more practical approach of the concept to the student.

For this to happen, we proposed to bring in Industry experts and professional professors from the renowned University all over the world to come together to redesign the syllabus.

Another challenge for many schools in India is that they have to be registered as with state department of education and also at the central department ( specially in case of CBSE ) level creating too many departments to deal with and too

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much documentation to support this leaving the less time and resources to schools to focus on education. With multiple education departments, there is too much confusion, for example state board says Local Language is compulsory in the list of subjects that are taught to the student, but CBSE says Hindi as compulsory subject to be taught. In such a scenario, I can only imagine a student position, whose parent frequently transfers from one state to another.

Another Policy of Government which is quite confusing is that State boards try to cap the maximum fee that can be charged by the schools and the Central Government wants to impose the Right to education Act. It would be very challenging

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for the school management to maintain the quality of education in such a scenario. In short, the new education policy should be unified (through the country) flexible, liberal and practical.

We have tied up with Nature Nurture in developing a theme based curriculum, where our children are exposed to education content in various different forms (digital CSS, books, activities, classroom decoration, Theme assemblies, student conferences) and bringing them closer to real life usage of the education content. This is further helping our students in developing multiple intelligences. This year, we have started Hobby clubs like Astronomy club, Photography club, Cookery club, Art club etc and we are a making sure that student participate in at least one such club to explore his/her interests.

We have introduced Butterfly fields’ lab as an extension of science lab, which is helping our students to understand complicated science concepts using small experiments. This year, we are proud to announce that we have started a very unique SI Unit (Special Interventions Unit) which is headed by Deputy Head Academic, Senior Psychologist to understand the special needs to slow learning and as a part of the programme we are also engaging a shadow teacher to cater exclusively to slow learners

How are you incorporating the emerging technologies in your existing curriculum?

This year we have tied up with mind box for setting up a STEAM lab (Science, Technology, English, Arts, Mathematics Lab ), which is helping us in delivering key subject concepts using digital designing and some of the industry standard software like Coral draw, Photoshop AutoCA, Pro-E, etc. Our students are able to print their digital design using 3D printers and see that their designs come to life. We are also encouraging our students to design online games, and many are willing to participate in the game design championship.

We have introduced Robotics to our students, which we helping them to design and code the Robotics and have a plan to send our students to world Robotics challenge in next two year. We have tied up with Wordsworth group to establish

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What are the innovative and exciting things you are planning to introduce from the new academic session?

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an English lab, which would help our students with communication skills. Our Teachers are using the digital content available in the open source to create custom eBooks, so that our students can learn various concepts in digital platform at their own pace.

What are the challenges that schools face in keeping pace with the present day requirements of education ecosystem?

We think that the present Curriculum is too rigid and leaves very less scope to modify, or innovate.

We think that the examination system is little out dated as it does not help teachers to implement differentiated learning in the classrooms.

What are your plans regarding the expansion of ‘Futuristic Edu Initiatives’?

We are trying to develop a framework, to assess the students’ interests, their learning levels in different subjects and create a student learning profile, and our teachers will be using it to understand students’ progress. Using this student profiling we would like to introduce differentiated learning in the classrooms. We believe that, in future this would help us in customizing the lesson plan to individual student level thus helping the student to make learning easy and enjoyable.

We would like to use this framework to develop a digital system to track student progress.

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OI PLAYSCHOOL COMMITTED TO CREATE GLOBAL LEADERS With an aim to create global leaders who will lead this world to a happier tomorrow, the journey of Oi Playschool began in 2010 with its flagship centre in Hyderabad. Today, Oi Playschool has spread its wings to multiple cities, winning an array of titles, says Prasanna Mandava, Director, People Combine Playschool Initiatives Pvt Ltd, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

How does Oi Playschool’s philosophy help developing strong foundation in early childhood?

At Oi Playschool, we are committed to prepare children for a life beyond school. Children are little explorers who cherish being able to explore and experience than being told and taught. Thus, young minds at Oi are provided with an environment that radiates happiness and allows them to learn through interactive, fun, sensorial and engaging experiences. The roots of our playschool philosophy originate from theories of renowned psychologists – Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson and Lev Vygotsky.

What are the various programs conducted by Oi Playschool for holistic development of kids?

At Oi, innovation is the order of the day and we are “Committed to create global leaders, in partnership with parents through our early childhood program”. Through continuous innovation and developing new programmes, we strive to make learning more fun, while staying a step ahead in safety, security & hygiene.

Toddler Programme (1.5-2.5 years) at Oi focuses on child’s primary areas of development such as Gross motor skills, Fine motor skills, Social skills, Emotional skills, Communication skills and Cognitive skills Nursery Programme (2.5-3.5 years) is a blend of sensorial development where Oi provides materials required to stimulate curiosity, exploration and creativity coupled with thematic discoveries of constructive learning.

PP-1 and PP-2 (3.5-5.5 years) are designed to get kids ready for school by introducing them to world of words, letters, math concepts, simple science tasks, patterns, classification and identification.

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

Children learn best by doing, and at Oi Playschool we nurture the abilities of our little discoverers at every step. Putting this belief into practice, we have adopted a “Developmental approach” in our curriculum. This approach allows our facilitators to be sensitive to each child and thereby strategise to promote optimum growth

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and development in them. Our teachers are extensively trained through our Elevate Teacher programme to smoothly deliver/drive the curriculum.

Aiding our development approach, the custom-designed ambience allows us to safely cater to children. Our centres are equipped with paramount hygiene, and safety measures such as - lady security guards, and CCTV surveillance.

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

Parents play a major role in the development of a child as they are one of the greatest influencers. Oi partners with parents, encouraging them to be actively involved in the child’s learning process. Through a series of events and activities over the year, parents and children come together to cherish their learnings and make fond memories. This is how we motivate parents to be an effective partner in encouraging independence, fostering creativity, instilling confidence & developing values of love and trust.

Our centres are known and appreciated by its parent partners for its unique parent involvement activities. So much that, Oi has been ranked first for Safety, Hygiene and Parent Involvement by the Eduation World Ranking 2017-18.

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THE INFINITY SCHOOL EMPOWERING FUTURE GENERATIONS THROUGH EDUCATION The Infinity School is kindled from the belief that every child has an infinite potential which can be harnessed to create infinite possibilities for them. The school follows an evidence-based approach to learning by drawing references from the latest research in the field of education, says Harinder Chhabra, Director, The Infinity School, Greater Noida, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

To manage with the rapidly evolving world, students must be responsive to change and receptive to new ideas, how does The Infinity School maintain such environment for its students?

In a rapidly changing world, existing knowledge becomes obsolete at a fast pace. With the rising impact of technology in our lives, job related skills too have started becoming obsolete within a couple of generations. To deal with this, we need to develop students in such a way that they are equipped and efficient at learning any time in their life. “Learning To Learn� is the motto which The Infinity School lives by. This approach requires to focus on development of a strong character in students that includes development of grit, perseverance, self-belief and a growth mindset. Our school curriculum and pedagogy revolves around developing these character traits in our children apart from keeping them curious, engaged, creative, happy and compassionate.

All of this is achieved through a carefully chosen set of team members who can bring to life this vision of a school that really want to be child centric. Our very small student-teacher ratio also enables individual focus on every child allowing them to connect with every child and work with them at an individual level.

Our classrooms are named Thinkrooms where thinking, questioning, discussing and sharing is the norm. We believe in facilitating learning though inquiry, discovery and discussion rather than just teaching. The processes of equipping our students with independent and structured thinking skills; creative and critical thinking skills; comprehension and communication skills; reasoning, research and analytical skills; self-management; and socio-emotional skills are weaved into our curriculum and pedagogy.

What are the best practices followed by the The Infinity School in its curriculum to nurture lifelong learners?

Our curriculum and pedagogical approach have dedicated space and time for developing reading, comprehension and thinking skills as well as character building through a leveled reading program, a structured professional sports program and including robotics and an award winning, internationally patented cognitive thinking program as part of the curriculum and not just clubs.

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

Technology is a great enabler in the learning process. It has positively impacted the administrative work of teachers, helped them in customising learning interventions for their children and also improved the ability of children to explore inside and outside the classroom.

Analysis of online assessments give them a lot of insight into the learning process and therefore helps in strengthening it.

Adaptive learning technology also enables the teachers to personalise the learning intervention for students of all abilities and all learning levels.

Use of technology in school also brings students

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in sync with the real world and they are better prepared for the challenges of post school years.

What measures are adopted by The Infinity School for active engagement of parents along with teachers for holistic learning amongst its students?

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Though the entire duration of schooling is important for a student, we believe that the preprimary and primary years play the most important part in shaping them and thus we have ensured a maximum student-teacher ratio of 15:1 till Grade five that will allow teachers the time to provide structured individual feedback and a personalized growth path to every child. Learning happens in a continuum and thus our report cards are called Progress and Plan Reports that not just provide a child’s current status of learning. They tell you the starting point too and thus the progress made so far. It also gives a plan of action against each of the areas of concern in discussion with the child.

There are so many other things we are doing differently to ensure that we provide high quality personalised education to our students to help them chart out their unique path in life.

The approach school has adopted requires us to in-house our teacher training. The school hired a curriculum and training professional even before the principal was hired. The focus on continuous development of our staff is our topmost agenda and will always remain there. The route school has taken to child centricity passes through employee centricity.

In the approach the school has taken, mindset development of parents is not just to be worked on but to be made one of the topmost priorities.

School and home environments, value systems and learning approaches need to be in sync with each other and at the school we keep parents engaged in this process by conducting sessions for them on various aspects of learning and parenting at regular intervals. We encourage parents to attend all workshops that we organize for them.

What is The Infinity School’s mission and vision to ensure growth and development of every student?

The purpose of school is to facilitate every child in discovering their own purpose in life. The school’s low student-teacher ratio, use of technology to customize learning interventions, personalized feedback and individual progress plans make us very child centric with a goal to help every child succeed.

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M. D INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL:

PRESCHOOL PERSPECTIVE

A BLEND OF TRADITION AND MODERNITY We always ensure and understand the need to walk the tightrope between tradition and modernity on the one hand and innovation and change on the other, says Naina Jain, Additional Secretary, M. D International School, Bijnor, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN) Established in 2014, MD International School completed 5 years of operation recently. How will you rate the journey so far and what is the roadmap for future?

Blissfully to enlighten that within five years of establishment, we have attained our full student’s capacity of around 3000. During our journey, we faced some common challenges such as: increasing enrolment of the students, recruiting and retaining skillful teachers, increasing parental involvement, best sports facilities for students.

We are providing quality education at a nominal fee structure which is easily affordable by parents. The school has received many awards and recognitions including the British Council, Education World , Education Today, Brainfeed, AKS , Asia One , Global Leader Foundations, ISA(Dubai), Digital Learning, National School Award and many more.

What special efforts are you undertaking to create an ideal blend of tradition and modernity in your school?

We always ensure and understand the need to walk the tightrope between tradition and modernity on the one hand and innovation and change on the other. We are committed to foster a caring, safe, inclusive and conducive learning environment in our school so that our goal of development of responsible individuals with wholesome values and personal excellence is achieved.

A special committee against sexual harassment has been set up in the school, what are the other measures undertaken to ensure students are safe from any such harm?

Following are the measures taken by MDIS to ensure safety and security of students: • By creating awareness among the students about good and bad touch.

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By CCTV surveillance constantly and making teachers responsible for the safety of the children in their classes.

• By keeping all empty rooms under lock and key at all times.

• By ensuring that no girl child is ever alone with any male staff.

• By ensuring maid or a woman teacher in each school bus.

• By ensuring no single girl child gets dropped at last bus stop.

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By ensuring construction work after the school hours.

By allowing any outsider technician with a staff member only.

By allowing visitors with ID proofs only By making two times attendance mandatory by the class teachers.

How are you integrating technology and innovation in the curriculum to impart futuristic learning and match the global education standards?

We have introduced a globally advanced curriculum in our school and MDIS has got accreditation from British Council too.

Our students have shared and exchanged various activities with schools in other countries through Skype and other ways. We have collaborated with many schools in foreign countries such as Russia, Bangladesh, Romania, Yemen, Pakistan, Nepal, Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt, Srilanka, Nepal, Greece etc.

What are your expansion plans? Are you looking to get into the franchise model?

We assure a rewarding future, modern Gurukul life, secularism, impartial judgment, and an ideal blend of tradition and modernity.

We want to build relationships within the community so we have outside resources to supplement our internal support system.

No, we are not looking to get into the franchise model.

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SCHOOL EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE

SETH M R JAIPURIA SCHOOLS: NURTURING CHILDREN THE FUTURISTIC WAY Seth M R Jaipuria Schools focuses on nurturing future leaders by imparting quality education to its students, says Shreevats Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

Thinking; Commitment; Creativity; Originality; Enthusiasm; Empathy; Values; are some of the values we are committed to.

Students always remain at the centre of the teaching-learning process. An academic institute should stand for dreams, building of character & skills, and defining a person’s life. Few years that a student spends with us would ‘shape or break’ that individual, so there is great power and greater responsibility in the hands of the Institute. Similarly, the time a professional spends at the Institute would provide for scaling new heights, surpassing unprecedented horizons and success un-told in spheres un-explored. We take this commitment very seriously, and are leaving no stone un-turned to achieve this.

Kindly elaborate on your teaching pedagogy.

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Vice Chairman, Seth M R Jaipuria Schools and Jaipuria Institute of Management

What are the prime objectives of the Seth MR Jaipuria Schools, as a group?

We want to make high quality, national level education and training accessible to students and teachers across maximum number of towns and cities of India. We are not limiting ourselves to a few towns and cities, or metropolitan areas. There is both an opportunity and a necessity of taking private school education to smaller towns without compromising quality. We foresee a bulk of growth, as well as requirement for high end education coming from Tier 2 / Tier 3 cities of India.

How is Jaipuria Group are students imbibing?

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different?

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Thirst for learning is what guides all educators at Jaipuria. We want to help create new generation of responsible business and social leaders that will help the world at large be proactive to meet the global challenges of the 21st century and surpass beyond the realms of the ordinary. Learners can be motivated and groomed for leadership by firstly recognising them as leaders, and they are needed to be empowered. We have successfully created a model which is scalable, measurable and replicable on the non-academic side, and basic processes and tools of academics also documented and driven by process.

Lessons Plans - We have created detailed lesson plans for each class room period from pre-primary to Class 12 running into hundreds of thousands of pages, which give teachers a quick idea/ roadmap or pedagogy to involve students in learnings for that day.

Teacher Training - We are highly focused on teacher training and organise both central and at site training across subject and pedagogy regularly for our teachers.

Student Opportunities - Given our scale, we create many opportunities for students to compete with each other across academic, co-curricular and sporting activities at our flagship events. Every year, tens of thousands of students from across our 24 schools take part in a variety of events and activities.

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Infinite Possibilities@ Jaipuria

Student Centric

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Focus on 21st Century Skills & Real Issues

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Our objective is to be present in every district within the geographical region we operate in, and provide education that is transformative and different from other existing schools.

What differentiates other schools?

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“A Group that would want to groom leaders and not merely churn out graduates.” Imparting and acquiring skill sets is a routine process and can be on a self learning mode or through gazillion training companies at every nook and corner. But the experience, diversity and differential thinking brought in by the various quality elements associated with a learning Institute defines it largely.

Jaipuria is thereby taking steps in the right direction.

Please briefly explain the model of value delivery to a student adopted by the Jaipuria Schools.

The focus is on overall transformation of the student, not merely provide them with age old

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Our approach is combining management principles with development methodologies to provide for rich array of resources to maximize achievement in any sphere of life. The biggest advantage is that this approach provides for a lifelong platform for growth.

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Over the past 6 years we have grown from 1 to 25 schools across 19 cities. We continue to grow at 5-6 new schools per year. We are happy to be recognized as school of greater good by university of Berkeley in California and Indian School Chain of the Year by Indian Education Congress. We have been recognised by Fortune as one of the future 50 schools of India. ELETS has recognised our schools as one of the best in the country .

What are your future development plans?

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tools to be ready for the real world or ‘get a job’.

Our approach is combining management principles with development methodologies to provide for rich array of resources to maximize achievement in any sphere of life. The biggest advantage is that this approach provides for a lifelong platform for growth.

The biggest disadvantage is that the society at large assumes the transformation approach as imitable, thereby providing bottlenecks in the process.

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student’s training

A Group that would want to groom leaders and not Training is a minimalistic action providing student with a skill set or imparting information for a set of actions. The focus should be on overall erudition, value-adds, character definition and transformation.

The faculty’s role is that of a facilitator, merely shepherding the students through the valleys of darkness, awakening life’s lessons for catapulting to greatness. The sessions are designed in a manner for the student to contribute in the most substantial manner possible. Experiential learning, workshops, discussions, real-time analysis, research, industry and society interaction, case studies, and experience sharing enables students to form a close-knit diverse and expert group of peers and provide for learning opportunities from all quarters. Therefore, the faculty merely plays the role of the guide- the path is tread-for by the student themselves. We are a learner centric Institution that provides opportunities for academic, technical and life-long learning in a collaborative culture dedicated to arouse curiosity, results and excellence.

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SAINT GIRI SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL – SERVING COMMUNITY SCHOOL PERSPECTIVE

THROUGH QUALITY EDUCATION Saint Giri is designed to meet the educational needs of any community. The school offers an encouraging learning environment for students combined with rich extracurricular programme, says Abhishek Giri, Chairman, Saint Giri Senior Secondary School, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

Saint Giri is successfully running from more than four decades, what’s the driving force that helped you in taking the legacy so far?

Saint Giri Senior Secondary School was established in 1968. The co-ed school is affiliated to CBSE encouraging the students to embrace the challenges of learning as sustenance for their minds, bodies and spirits. Saint Giri is designed to meet the educational needs of community with multi-curricular expertise including academics with cultural heritage. The founder Late Harvir Giri believed in comprehensive way of providing education in a gratifying environment, which is followed till date by the entities those are associated with the organisation.

With technology immensely taking over the education sector; what special measures school has adopted to keep the students and curriculum abreast with latest developments.

The intervention of technology in schools has brought a drastic change in teaching-learning processes. Teacher has turned to be a mere facilitator and an instructor. Saint Giri as a school regularly reviews the curriculum, policies and pedagogies in all facets thereafter redefining and reframing the strategies and goals. Our organisation is well equipped with all the latest technological teaching-aids to keep in pace with the latest developments.

What are your expectations from the New Education Policy (NEP), and how it will change the face of the school education?

National Education Policy should plan to establish advisory committee in each State. It should include educationists from private institutions, teachers, and personnel from education department, college faculty, and admin. Demarcation of SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in every State and type of URGs (Utility Resource Group) of the same should be done fair and square.

What are the major challenges Saint Giri is facing while keeping in pace with the present day

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requirements of the education ecosystem?

All the Private Un-aided schools’ / institutions’ financial credibility is based on the strength of the students as they have to generate their own finances for its establishment and for the smooth running of the organisation. In the NEP-2019, the PTR (Pupil Teacher Ratio) is restricted to 25:1. It will be a burden for schools as current PTR is 40:1. It needs to be reviewed as additional infrastructure, teachers, and FAR (Floor Area Ratio) will be required in the School Buildings. It will also levy additional financial burden on the private institutions resulting in at least 40% hike in tuition fees for the students in this regard.

What is the roadmap for the expansion of your already growing network of schools?

Since, Saint Giri Senior Secondary School is designed to meet the educational needs of community; it provides constructive and motivational learning environment to students. The school’s values and vision are clearly evident in the environment which helps students become independent learners and develop right values and skills to interact successfully and face the challenges of future.

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THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS DYNAMIC NOWADAYS

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he Education system is not static, it is quite dynamic.

What works well today, may not work in near future.

In context of education sector, the aforesaid is true as traditional chalk-and-talk method of teaching is now being replaced by digital ways of learning,” Dr A Ashok, Secretary & Commissioner, Board of Intermediate Education, Government of Telangana and Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar, Telangana.

As a Co-Programme Chair at 9th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad, Dr Ashok has deliberated on various topics, issues and opportunities related to higher education ecosystem of Telangana. He was also among the key dignitaries who inaugurated the conclave.

Revealing about how the Government in Telangana is implementing various initiatives to improve the higher education in the State, he said, “Despite being the youngest State in the country, we are the pioneers in the education sector. We have set several landmarks in Indian education landscape. Telangana Government has taken various initiatives for different sectors with emphasis on education sector under the dynamic vision of our Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.” “We are heading towards ‘Golden Telangana’ to achieve a considerable development in the State with education as the key focus area. Since the inception of the State, huge investments have been made into education sector. Along with providing equal opportunities of growth for every domain of education sector including pre-primary, school, higher education, and skill and vocational training, the Government has also established several universities across the State,” he added.

Dr Ashok stressed on innovation in vocational training as well. According to him, “Similarly in vocational training, institutes can’t only rely on one teaching-learning approach.

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technology advancement to make knowledge delivery more effective.”

He also discussed how Telangana as a State is working on various models to ensure that the students are employable.

He revealed, “There are two models nowadays we are talking about employability model and industry-ready model. Industryready model seems to be the most appropriate as employers require the workers having enough hands on experience on a technology or machine to work on.”

Referring quality education as the foundation for higher education, Dr Ashok described how his department is ensuring the quality school education in the State. He said, “Good intermediate education is the foundation for good higher education. We are maintaining the global standards for curriculum to prepare knowledgeable, resourceful and competitive citizens. At the same time, we have strict norms for every school to maintain good standards of infrastructure, teachers and certifications. We have around 2,600 junior colleges in Telangana. To maintain certain standards and streamline processes, we have started schemes like online affiliation, integration of all the services with the mobile platform, conducting examinations within time, among others.”

Along with 9th Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad, Dr Ashok has participated in various previous events organised by Elets where he shared valuable thoughts to impart quality education.

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LaundroMINT: Organised,

STUDENT WELFARE

Hygienic and Affordable On-Campus Laundry Care LaundroMINT Campus is one of our five fast growing business verticals, with a very specific approach towards executing organised laundry care to students of Educational Institutes and private hostels. Institutes/ Private Hostels require ZERO INVESTMENT to set up an on-campus laundromat, says Sameer Deodhar, Founder and CEO, LaundroMINT, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

How is your product making the lives of students better?

We ensure for students: 1. Hygienic and on-campus laundromat service facility at a standardised price 2. Minimisation of loss or mix of clothes, we regulate and process orders via our mobile application.

3. Service rating via our mobile app interface so that we can monitor our performance at campus-site accordingly.

4. We execute laundry care with: • Imported commercial grade equipment (Washers + Dryers) • Branded and Safe chemical usage 5.

We avoid mixing of clothes of two different orders

What innovative marketing strategies are you adopting to capture the educational segment?

Our product features are quite compelling. It would gather attention in the eyes of educational segment because of Zero Investment to set up laundromat infra coupled with such an organised approach towards executing laundry care, as mentioned above, we believe that an added amenity to the campus like ours would make the students, their parents and the management happy!

What is the genesis of your organisation?

The growing economy of the country resulting in citizens increasing disposable income and lack of time to do household activities.

What are your expansion plans in different sectors including education?

We have five business verticals to specifically cater to our audiences: 1. LaundroMINT Community for setting up laundromat at societies

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LaundroMINT Campus for Educational segment and private hostel market 3. LaundroMINT + , LaundroMINT Express and LaundroMINT Café for Franchise to penetrate into the retail segment through our brand influence. We provide our support to our Franchisees with: • Marketing Resources • Purchasing power to get detergents and other sub-products at negotiable rates • Training their manpower • Mobile Application Support As of now, we are catering to 5,500 + students and 8,000 unique customers across Maharashtra through our campus and franchise outlets respectively. We are heading towards catering to 25,000 students and 1,00,000 unique customers by the end of 2020.

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COURSERA – TRANSFORMING INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

LIVES THROUGH ONLINE EDUCATION

Coursera was founded in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors who wanted to share their knowledge and skills with the world. Since then, the platform facilitates anywhere and anytime learning to earn credentials from the world’s top universities and education providers, says Raghav Gupta, Director - India and APAC, Coursera, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN). are from the world’s most reputed universities. As a practice, we aim to partner with universities that are ranked among the top 200 globally, with every course on Coursera being taught by top instructors from these universities and educational institutions. We focus a lot on bringing top-notch content on our platform. We also work with our industry partners like Google, Intel, AWS, PWC, IBM to create career-aligned content to teach in-demand technologies and business skills not typically taught within universities - this ensures that our learners are learning industry-relevant skills and are future-ready.

Taking a step further, through partnerships with universities like Manipal and Duke, Coursera aims to create a University of the Future providing content from the world’s best institutions to campus students, empowering with the knowledge required to succeed in the present and future job markets.

Which education segments do Coursera majorly focus on and what are your product offerings in these segments?

Raghav Gupta

Director - India and APAC, Coursera

Coursera being one stop community for students has partnered with colleges, universities and corporate across the globe, how is the same benefitting the Indian learners?

To truly transform lives and bridge the opportunity divide, we recognized the need to provide learners with the currency that connects them to the career outcomes they are looking for a richer and more applied learning experience and employerrecognized credentials.

Coursera is uniquely positioned since all the courses it offers

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Coursera majorly focuses on working professionals and students in the higher education space. With over 3,300 Courses, 300 Specializations, and 14 full-fledged online degrees, Coursera provides learning experiences and highly valuable credentials to anyone who wishes to upskill. From a product standpoint our offerings are: Courses: Provide anyone, anywhere the ability to learn about a new topic or skill. They are open to all learners and typically take about 4 - 6 weeks to complete.

Specialisations: Designed to help learners master a particular skill. They are accessible to all learners and usually take 3 - 6 months to complete.

Certificates: Credentials issued by universities and industry.

University certificates usually carry credit that can be stacked towards earning a degree. Industry certifications are developed by industry partners and have a rigorous, proctored summative assessment. Certificates usually sometimes require admissions

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How does technology have a positive impact on education and how can it enhance the level of education in remote areas of India?

As per a study by EY, India is the single largest provider of global talent, with one in four graduates in the world being a product of the Indian ecosystem. Touted to have the youngest population, scaling affordable education that is affordable is the top challenge Indian education system needs to address. This is where technology plays a key role.

Edtech platforms provide a host of courses, certificates, and degrees from the world’s top universities with no limit to the number of enrollments. The economies of scale also mean the courses are available at a fraction of the cost. By democratizing access to quality education edtech companies such as Coursera are enabling people to transform their lives through education. We are also moving towards making online learning extremely personalized by better understanding our learners’ career goals and then providing them with a series of courses that help them meet their goals. We at Coursera, are excited to be at the forefront of using technology to transform the way people learn throughout their lives.

What are the challenges that Coursera faces when it comes to aligning modern day technology and meeting student expectations?

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demands. As an edtech platform, in terms of acceptance and utility, our challenges are diminishing with each day. Today, more and more employers are partnering with Coursera to upskill their workforce and are accepting online certificates. Now, Coursera certificates are the second most posted badge on LinkedIn and Coursera for Business is growing at the rate of 200% YoY, globally.

In terms of technology, internet penetration and bandwidth issues are the niggling challenges faced by online education platforms in India.

While on the one hand, India is preparing to welcome 5G, many parts of the country still have limited access to high-speed Internet. However, with improvements to our product and digital transformation, we have been successful in overcoming this restriction to a large extent. In a bandwidth-constrained environment, Coursera allows you to download the lectures and assignments, and then seamlessly upload them for a grade when bandwidth returns. The ability to download material to work offline is one of the most-valued features among our mobile users, and thus we are constantly adding more offline features to facilitate on-the-go learning. We at Coursera, believe in constantly upgrading our platform and using emerging technologies to better the learning experience for our learners.

What are Coursera’s plans for upcoming years in the education space?

We’re continually developing new ways to support and empower people to transform their careers through access to high-quality education.

Our priority in the coming years will be on: • Expanding career-relevant content offerings to fit every online learners’ needs. This includes launching more Courses, Specializations, and increasingly Master’s Degrees in career-relevant topics • Growing our workforce development initiatives with top employers and Governments • Helping universities across the globe create the ‘Futuristic University’ by equipping their students with the indemand skills • Building a technology platform that delivers a scalable and personalized online learning experience.

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and typically take 6 months to complete.

MasterTrack™ Certificates: Master programs split into modules so learners can earn a career credential online at a breakthrough price.

Learners will benefit from real-world projects and live expert instruction. If learners are accepted to the full Master’s program, the MasterTrack™ Certificate counts towards the degree.

Degrees: Accredited credentials issued by universities. In order to meet accreditation standards, degrees usually include high engagement with faculty and classmates including live lectures, expert grading, and access to TAs, group projects, and proctored summative assessments. Degrees require admissions and typically take 2 to 3 years to complete.

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TRAINING THE BRAIN THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Manas Ranjan Mohanty

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t’s 04:30a.m. Reejul, Mihir, Kripa, Sidhhi, Sai, Adhip, Asmita, Pooja, Rohitesh and some more students arrived at school in their uniform with school bag, tiffin and water bottle. When other children were in their deep sleep, these students started their class of the chapter ‘Animals and Birds’ from environmental science book. But, their class was not going to happen in their daily classroom. After some instruction and briefing they boarded the school vehicle which departed towards a swampy land at the outskirt of the town where they were going to see variety of Local and Migratory Birds, observe what they do, understand their habitat and know their names. Lot of questions and discussions started among them immediately after the vehicle started. Sai asked, “Sir, what is that bird?”

This was one of the many such outdoor classes happens in every academic session at different times in Kiddy Kids. Students visit many different places, interact with variety of people; experience numerous new things beyond their text books and smart classes.

Answering a question and asking a questing are not same. While answering a question may not need any brain exercise, but, asking a question definitely need some energy to create a spark in the neuropath of the brain. ‘Use it or Lose it’ is a very famous line used by the neurologists and psychologists across the world to explain

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how real life observation and experience are extremely important to create a very effective and intelligent brain.

Developing the Brain to its maximum possible level through experiential learning is what the school’s academic policy has adopted since its inception in 2009, says, Manas Ranjan Mohanty, the Principal of the school. He adds that the school had never believed in just syllabus completion, exam and class promotion without actual concept clarity in the mind of the students. Therefore, each and every class everyday starts with an experiential learning activity followed by discussion and sharing among students and most importantly developing question from self observation. Text Books and Copies are always second to hands-on activity which gives real life experiences to students of KKPS, helps them to improve their observation skill, analytical skill and creativity skill.

Questioning every question, every concept, every theory and every definition ignites the mind to think more in deep and relate it to day-to-day life situations. It gives us a lot of happiness when parents of our students share how their children are relating their classroom learning to the outer world while travelling or visiting new place- says, Preeti Patnaik, the Vice-Principal of the school.

Recalling the first 2-3 years, K Shakuntala who is the academic head of the school shares how it was a very tough task for the school to drive away the parents from the traditional rote learning education to real-life experiential education. Every year the school conducts parenting workshops on various topics related to modern education and child development to bring awareness among parents and integrate their effort aligned with the school system for a very effective development of their children.

“Train the Brain” is such a Parenting Workshop organized and conducted by the school in the month of October every year which remains open for all parents from different schools where psychologists, doctors and educationists share their expert knowledge for better parenting and better education.

In these years through many innovative and effective educational practices, the Kiddy Kids Premium School in Jajpur Road, Odisha has brought a new revolution and has created its unique identity as a pioneer of brain development through school education. (Manas Ranjan Mohanty, author of the write-up, is the Principal of Kiddy Kids Premium School. Views expressed by him are a personal opinion.) .

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Satluj Group of Schools: Building Leaders of Tomorrow We believe that Satluj should be an ever-progressing premier education institute in the context of times, imparting the highest quality of education to our students. We strive towards providing the best and the most innovative teaching-learning experience, says Reekrit Serai, Managing Director, Satluj Group of Schools, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What are the methodologies followed at Satluj Public School to embed best future practices and innovation with the teaching-learning process?

We believe in ‘learning by doing’, but with our little Satluj twist to it.

We follow the proven methods of visualisation, technology tools and active learning through peer instruction, group discussion etc. We bring the Satluj twist to it with the help of SAD (Subject Awareness Drive), AL (Applied Learning), CDKS (Cross Domain Knowledge Sharing) and BTCL (Beyond the Classroom Learning) activities. Our 3D Printing and Innovation Labs are also effectively used in the teaching-learning process. State-of-the-art technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and very soon Blockchain is going to be the part of our teaching-learning process.

Is it important to monitor innovative progress, performance and behaviour of every student at school, what initiatives have been undertaken by Satluj Public School in this regard?

At Satluj, apart from using the MIS portal to keep track of the students’ performance, we are in the process of developing our own App, SchoolMan, to keep a track of a complete analysis of every Satlujian, be it academics or sports or activities or behaviour. We have a full-time school counsellor looking into cases that require special attention. We give immense importance to Life Skills and Moral Values lessons. Our BTCL (Beyond the Classroom Learning) too has been a popular way to engage students.

For innovation in school it is very important to have skilled teachers, what measures have been undertaken at the school to improve the teaching experience?

Teachers need to be abreast of the current educational technology offerings for the Gen Z students. We at Satluj, constantly upgrade the skill-set of the teaching staff through MOOCs, trainings and workshops. Teachers’ performance is evaluated on a regular basis, they are constantly assessed on the subject matter and their teaching methodologies are remotely monitored.

It is very important for school and parents to be in sync for the holistic development of students,

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what are the processes followed by the school in this regard?

We believe in involving the parents with the day-to-day workings of the school. We conduct regular parent conferences to discuss about the progress of each Satlujian. We maintain weekly folders of the students’ work, send the weekly newsletter, conduct annual open houses and keep the school website up-to-date with all the required information. We maintain a very transparent relationship with the parents and that instils faith in the school.

What is the vision and mission of the school?

Our motto is simple: ‘You Shall Live With Effort.’ We believe that Satluj should be an ever-progressing premier education institute in the context of times, imparting the highest quality of education to our students. We strive towards providing the best and the most innovative teaching-learning experience. Our mission, therefore, is to impart secular and ever-progressing qualities to our students, and contribute to the upliftment of society. We build the leaders of tomorrow who will be the torch bearers of the Satluj way of life.

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In such a scenario, parents look for the best and safest space for their children. Touted to be a Rs. 3,500 crore industry in India, pre-schools are abundant in every city today.

However, it is crucial how parents choose the best pre-school that facilitates growth for their children.

A good preschool provides a strong foundation for learning, both socially and academically. Quality is at the core of success for any business to run. It runs truer in the pre-school space as it is primarily linked with young children. The first few years of their lives become the foundational blocks for the kind of growth they have.

Safari Kid International Preschool is a global brand in the preschool space, with over 50 centres across 7 countries. They offer young minds the platform to grow and learn in every sphere of development. The preschool strongly believes that the best approach to early years’ learning is to combine free and structured play in beautiful and engaging learning environments with an education programme that facilitates development across multiple areas.

Safari Kid believes that every child is different, and their learning curves are equally unique. Upholding this thought, the preschool is known for its customisation and ability to interact with children using their respective interest areas and skills. The core of Safari Kid lies at four Cs – Customisation, Curriculum, Care and Communication; which forms their strong pedagogical path.

Children are most susceptible to forming their understanding of the world in the first five years of their lives, and it is important that preschools provide consistent services across their centres to run standardised best practices.

All of their centres are created to be sensory-rich learning environments. The set-up is not like a usual preschool, but instead a lot more fluid in the way children interact with peers and teachers or the way they learn concepts in their day-to-day life. Their staff is trained for more than 100 hours by their international curriculum management that sets the benchmark for all their centres. This global curriculum has proven to be more effective when children from Safari Kid and other peers were evaluated. One of the most unique features is also our power to customise curriculum and the overall experience based on the child’s requirement and skills.

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Language is given utmost importance at Safari Kid with focus on developing each child’s linguistic skills by including local languages as well as English and Spanish. The school believes that play is the best way to learn advanced concepts in language and math which is the reason students of Safari Kid are two grade levels ahead of their peers when they leave for primary school.

THE SAFARI KID ETHOS Care: Children are brought up in a secure and warm environment to stimulate effective nourishment and development in the early years.

Customisation: Each child develops at a different pace. Their effective programmes are customised based on what a child needs.

Curriculum: Children are taught through a combination of play, explorative learning and a structured approach to academics.

Communication: Parents are partners with Safari Kid in the early childhood journey of their children. Effective communication with parents is the key to the overall development of the child.

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INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

GuruQ – Connecting Students with the Best Tutors With the GuruQ platform, students are given different ways to find tutors as per their exact requirements. Since students today are pressed for time, we help them save it by providing tuitions completely at their convenience, says Minal Anand, CEO, GuruQ, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

Technology has brought about a new wave of consumerism, whereby personalized solutions catering to niche requirements comprising both products and services, are delivered on-demand to customers at the comforts of their home. And Learning is not untouched by this trend which is why the private tutoring industry is burgeoning at present with online tutoring clearly being the future. Technology doesn’t just facilitate education but also helps in student-teacher collaboration, assess learning and track progress.

What are some unique features offered by GuruQ that benefits students Along with parents and teachers?

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What are the key factors that GuruQ focuses on to ensure the quality of its content?

GuruQ is a content aggregator and all its content is factual and collected through a stringent process, and validated before use.

We also ensure that we are in constant touch with all the entities in our network to encourage them to update their content regularly and reward them when they do and penalise them if they fail to do so.

How does the GuruQ select the quality and reliable tutors to address the needs of students?

GuruQ has a five-step tutor assessment and certification process, with an elimination rather than a selection bias, conducted both online and offline. While we have a proficiency test for every subject and level that a tutor intends to teach, they are also subjected to an interview and a thorough background check.

We look at both the aptitude and attitude while screening the candidates.

How has the technology helped in improving the teaching-learning practices across the globe?

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GuruQ provides a multitude of advantages and benefits, both directly and indirectly, to all the entities involved with it. In addition to providing students remote access to the best tutors across the country, GuruQ allows complete flexibility to students to customize their learning exactly according to their unique needs such as time, learning mode and location, difficult topics, and learning with groups or individually. Parents are assured of the competent and reliable tutors with complete accountability of results. Tutors gain by enhancing their reach and reputation thereby expanding their business and earnings. With regular training and information dissemination GuruQ strives for the evolution of tutors so that they acquire complete control of their tutoring and complete convenience while doing so.

What are some products that GurQ is working on for growth of its presence in educational market?

GuruQ intends to provide a plethora of avenues for the holistic learning and development of students. While our platform is an aggregation of all major areas of study and the various segments therein, we also offer all the modes (online & offline), types (individual and group) and mediums (tutors, institutes and selfhelp content) that can enable students to decide and choose as they desire. GuruQ has also extended the scope and scale of its offering to include corporate training and is striving for a hitherto unexplored school partnership program. Besides this GuruQ has an extremely interesting and innovative vertical in the pipeline that is going to revolutionize the tutoring industry.

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INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

TUK TAKING ONLINE EDUCATION TO THE WORLD The need and benefits of Online Education has never been felt as strongly as it is felt today.

The role of internet in helping children acquire knowledge and self-awareness cannot be washed away, says Manmeet Khurana, Founder and CEO, The Ultimate Knowledge (TUK), in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

How far has ‘The Ultimate Knowledge’ (TUK) reached in realising its vision & mission of making Online Education, especially General Awareness, accessible and affordable to all?

We have surely made a start, no doubt, but it is just the beginning and TUK has a long way to go. We will relentlessly pursue our mission till every child in the world gets the TUK exposure. I personally believe every student should have access to quality General Awareness content. Our commercial interests aside, we strive everyday to make TUK really accessible and affordable.

What are the key focus areas while designing the knowledge material for students of different age groups?

Personalised content is something we take pride in. While General Awareness is vital for every student, the content should be appropriate to his/her age group. We have worked within defined parameters while setting the right content for children of various grades. Because one size does not fit all! The language, terminology and size of the content would differ, as the grades change. Our content is prepared by specialists who have strong academic background, hence our content is neither over-burdening nor does it fall short.

How important is General Awareness for students of classes 9th to 12th, given the fact that he/she already has a lot of syllabus to cover?

General Awarenes is not a separate subject. Rather it is a part of every subject. Academics is very important and the teachers and schools are doing a great job at it. However, TUK is equally important in the sense that it acts as a bridge between academics and the real world. It requires only 15 minutes for students to brush up their information. Irrespective of tough or lengthy syllabus, one should always know what’s going on in the world.

How challenging it is to keep your knowledge bank updated in the ever-changing world, and how do you overcome it?

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We are blessed to have a dedicated team of educationists and content creators who help us with the content as per the age and class group of the student. We have a team of 100+ professionals who work hard to keep our knowledge bank updated. We also have the support of 1,000+ teachers who act as mentors for us. Our research is excellent as the content on the portal is posted only after verifying it from multiple sources.

Do you simply provide information to students or do you have any mechanism on board to monitor their progress as well?

Sure we do. All the teachers associated with TUK are given an individual user ID which they can use to monitor the TUK dashboard of the school. On the dashboard there are various parameters to judge the child’s progress. For example, how many articles the child has read in a month, or how many marks he scored in the last Quiz, and many more. It also helps us in analysing students’ progress and advising the school accordingly.

The dashboard also helps the school to identify the improvement areas of the child and collaborate with us to work upon those.

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SCHOOL PERSPECTIVE

PREPARING CITIZENS OF TOMORROW Fortune World School (FWS) is one of the most gracious and respectable names in the School education. The School is established with a highly cherished goal to enable children to blossom, to develop as complete individual and to unfold what is enfolded in them, says Papri Chakraborty, Head of School, Fortune World School, Noida, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

What opportunities are offered by Fortune World School (FWS) in various fields along with academics for intellectual and social development of student?

As a 21st century organisation, FWS embraces holistic growth of students. The triumphant feats of Fortunites reveal it all. Fortunites have won accolades in NSEA (National Standard Examination for Astronomy) and INOA (Indian National Olympiad of Astronomy).

Fortunites made the most innovative model in Annual Science Exhibition by CBSE. They also participated in Tryst by IIT Delhi and bagged 30th rank in 2017 and 35th rank in 2018. Fortunites bagged gold medals in National Thai Taekwondo Championship as well. FWS Students have shown their compassion towards society through the NGOs SaiKripa and Protsahan. The school goes handin-hand with the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

What innovations are adopted by FWS in its curriculum to inculcate life skills and offer quality education to its students?

As an avant-garde thinker FWS has incorporated many innovative ideas. The English Monarch has ameliorated their language skills.

“The enlightenment stew” is a minute hodge podge of monologues that are full of humour and wisdom. The GOOD DEED BANK reforms them as good human being. For a green abode the Fortunite splant a sapling on their birthdays. The Vidhyarthi Sena drives to clean the rural areas and villages of Noida.

How do you think technology is helping students in improving their learning outcomes and teachers in their knowledge delivery methods?

The tech savvy Fortunites use educational tool MY Pedia app.

This online app aims to transform education by enabling children and parents to have access to whatever is being taught in class.

Thus, Fortunites learn according to their abilities and needs. The augmentative reality lessons planned by teachers take the history students to that era. Teachers conduct English grammar classes by letting students evaluate the online tweets of the famous personalities. FWS bestows opportunities to teachers to strive for excellence through various online certified courses offered by

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many renowned organisations one of which is British Council.

How does FWS meet the expectations of parents and government standards simultaneously for your school?

FWS has paved its way to facilitate a holistic world class education of Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Education under the reputed national and international board of Central Board of Secondary Education. The positive reviews of parents on the school website reflect how the school has touched their hearts. The well being and protection of students is supervised by CCTVs. The FWS teachers delve deep to spot a child’s potential in different areas.

Through the Pupil Enroute Programme the learners on the way work hard to come out with flying colours.

What is the mision and ,mission of the school?

The vision of FWS is to motivate the weak, to address the average and challenge the gifted. The offered curriculum prepares the students to face global challenges. It grooms every child into a good and honest human being. The mission of FWS is to educate and inspire the future generations to lead, innovate and create wonder.

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FUN RANGERS MAKING EARLY LEARNING JOYFUL We are among the pioneers in providing professional and structured preschool education. We cater to the educational and developmental requirements of children of 2 to 5 years, says Satnam Sandhu and Jasveer Kaur Sandhu, Founder Directors, Fun Rangers Preschools, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What is the vision and mission behind establishing Fun Rangers?

We believe in providing quality learning experiences to children in their early years. A challenging learning environment along with fun activities and games is offered to prepare the children for entry to elementary education.

Fun Rangers is for every child who enjoys a well balanced and structured day. We like to work with parents to carefully manage the transition between home and school, promoting self confidence and positive attitude

Tell us in detail how the curriculum adapted at the school caters to need of the student.

Our curriculum is tailor made. We have amalgamation of all childhood teaching concepts. We provide innovative lessons for everyday practice, role play activities are performed, all the above is done along with developing the writing skills, understanding and differentiating shapes and colors.

Our focus area is learning with fun. Children are made to experience all the elements of life. Exposure to external world is given through regular visits to super markets, parks, sports ground and religious places. Physical touch feeling by self is a different experience and gives a confidence to them.

What are the key elements of technology added learning offered by the school?

We have smart boards in all the schools & teachers are trained to use the same. Children are encouraged to use it and its one of the very useful tool for the upbringing of child.

Our centres are known and appreciated by its parent partners for its unique parent involvement activities. So much that, Fun Rangers has been ranked first for Safety, Hygiene and Parent Involvement by the Eduation World Ranking 2017-18.

What are the special efforts undertaken by Fun Rangers to ensure adequate safety, security & hygiene standards are maintained?

All our schools are having CCTV surveillance, every corner of

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the school is closely monitored, and there are security guards in all the schools. Fire extinguishers are there in the school & all the staff is properly trained. Regular mock drills are performed in the school. One staff always travels in the van along with the kids.

For hygiene all the rooms have air purifiers, there are sanitizers in the school, proper cleaning is done & deep cleaning is done on a weekly basis.

What are your future plans for FUN RANGERS? We believe in living the present and plan for future, we want to be a preferred preschool for all the parents for their children.

We want to provide an environment where children are safe, secure and get ready for their future life.

We would like to reach to uncovered areas wherein we can provide quality learning atmosphere.

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WES Elets’ World Education Summits The Legacy, The Vision

In an endeavour to enhance awareness and build knowledge-sharing platforms highlighting the growing significance of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education, every year, Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd organises the World Education Summit (WES). Elets News Network (ENN) explores its legacy.

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n a consistently expanding horizon of education and changing market scenarios, the approach and purpose of imparting education requires a fresh look at fixed intervals of time.

In this light, the World Education Summits (WES) organised by digitalLEARNING, an initiative of Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd, have emerged as quintessential platforms of knowledge-exchange and highest level of engagement in India and different parts of the world over the years.

Taking the meaning of imparting education to a new level, redefining the objectives and approaches to perceive meaning of literacy, knowledge, and skills in sync with the modern-day trends and making them relevant as per market demands, these summits today hold an unprecedented significance.

Since education’s diversified horizon is narrated in terms of preschool, school, higher education, and skill & vocational training classification, the Information Communication Technology (ICT) is influencing all, playing a key role in reinventing teaching-learning processes.

Even though the traditional chalk and talk methods have held their own significance at different stages of development, the need and reach of ICT cannot be underestimated by any breath of imagination in the present times.

Its importance is further boosted most importantly when taking education to the last-mile has also turned a collective mission of the Government and the private sector.

Every day, there are new innovations related to lecture delivery methodologies, curriculum and pedagogy.

These innovations and ICT are supporting schools, colleges/universities, and skill & vocational training institutes to deliver the knowledge swiftly and precisely.

In an endeavour to highlight and deliberate upon the innovations, initiatives and best practices being followed across the globe, the 13 editions of WES held in India and abroad mainly in Dubai (UAE), Bahrain (Bahrain), Denver (US), New Delhi, and Mumbai — hold a distinct significance. These have enabled inunderlining the best happening developments on the international education landscape.

It is a matter of pride that since 2011, the WES has brought together top decision makers, edu-leaders, industry leaders, thought leaders and practitioners annually. Today, it exists as a premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative approach in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink the concept of education.

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14th WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT, DELHI 9-10 August 2019

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The Grand Conference World Education Summit is the congregation of some of the leading thinkers in the education world from across the world. The latest edition of World Education Summit going to be organised in Delhi will inspire one and all, making them understand the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly evolving education world through a new prism.

Over 500 inspirational speakers from india and abroad are invited to deliberate on various topics and discuss various challenges during the summit.

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Expo Ed-startups, edu-tech companies and edu-corporate will showcase their products and services. The exhibition at the summit showcases unique yet effective teaching methodologies, networking and product interactions among different sections of the education landscape. Over 100 exhibitors are going to showcase latest and the best practices in education landscape during the 14th edition of the summit.

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The 14h World Education Summit Delhi 2019 aims to recognise, highlight, honour and encourage leading models/projects/ processes of excellence and sustainable innovations in preschool, school, higher education, skill & vocational training, corporate, and Government sector.

The awards will also see entrepreneurs in the education space getting recognised. The summit has, in its past too, brought to fore unique initiatives and projects that have caused a paradigm shift in the education sphere within.

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THE REFLECTION ON PAST Thought Leaders from across the globe have been part of Elets initiatives since last decade. Be it India, Asia or Middle East, Africa or Europe, policymakers have attended World Education Summit and shared their vision to create a developed and knowledge based society.

Be it preschool, school, higher or skill & vocational education, global thought leaders from these verticals have enriched Elets conferences with their presence as well as opened up new horizons for the visionaries.

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DELHI

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World Education Summit 2011 created history by attracting representations from over 50 countries.

Thought leaders and policymakers from countries of Middle East, Africa, Europe along with India congregated together to ideate, deliberate and discuss on new technological interventions for over all development of education world over.

Hon’ble Late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Former President of India

Dr Thomas Christie

Director, Aga Khan University Examination Board

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Kapil Sibal

Hon’ble Minister of Human Hon’ble Minister Resource Development of Education, Royal and Communications and Government of Bhutan IT, Government of India

Dr Taseer Al Nuaimi Goeffrey Conaghan Hon’ble Minister of Education, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Commissioner to India, State Government of Victoria, Australia

2012

Elets World Education Summit 2012 created a knowledge sharing platform to discuss various aspects of ICT for education ranging from School Education to Higher Education and Technical Education. Global Leaders like Minister of Education from Mauritius and other countries participated in the premier conference on education.

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Shigeru Aoyagi

Dr Sunil Nawaratne

Dr Theophilus Mooko

Dr Pascal Chazot

Prof S S Mantha

Secretary, Minister Minister of State for Human Director and UNESCO of Higher Education, representative to India, Resourse Development, Government of Sri Lanka Bhutan, Maldvies, Sri Lanka Government of India

Deputy Permanent Secretary, President, National Chairman, All India Council Ministry of Education and comission of Employment for Technical Education Skills Development, and Training, France (AICTE) Republic of Botswana

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Harmonising Global Efforts: Strategies for steering the education sector - Keeping this theme as focal point of discussion, WES 2013 witnessed congregation of thought leaders under one roof to discuss various issues related to education. Member of Parliament, France and key policy makers from Indian Government shared their views for creating an effective education ecosystem.

Prof Wajih Owais

HE Shaida Mohammad

Robert O Ferrer

Mark Parkinson

HE Rizali Wilmar

Minister of Higher Education Abdali Indrakesuma and Scientific Research, Ambassador of the Islamic Indrakesuma, Government of Jordan Republic of Afghanistan Ambassador of Indonesia to India to India

First Secretary, Embassy of the Philippines

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Shri Shahid Ali Khan

Minister, Minority Welfare and IT, Government of Bihar, India

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TheWorld Education Summit 2014 was more than a conference. It built a strong community around it and provided various business and networking opportunities for education leaders and industry leaders. The dynamics of education sector was then changing rapidly world over and WES 2014 provided an opportunity to all the stakeholders to come together and deliberate, discuss and explore the horizon.

Vishaka Nanayakkara

Ministry Of Higher Education, Government of SriLanka

Praveen Prakash

Justice M S A Siddiqui

Moli Diva

Chairman, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, New Delhi

Deputy Head of English and Foundation Studies, Australian College of Kuwait

William Bickerdike

Dr. Najma A Heptulla

Joint Secretary, Technology Regional Director Union Minister for Minority Enabled Learning & Mission Cambridge International Affairs, Government Director, NMEICT, MHRD Examinations of India

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From Canada to Australia- Global leaders from the world of education came together to deliberate upon different aspects of school and higher education and skill development in WES 2015. With the presence of ministers and key policymakers from India sharing their vision on education for all, the summit also created unique platform of knowledge sharing amongst the policy makers, eduleaders and industry leaders.

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Director General of the Colleges of Applied Sciences, Ministry of Higher Education, The Sultanate of Oman

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President, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Hon’ble Minister, Department of School Education, Goverment of Punjab

Prof Andrew Tagart Vice Chancellor, Murdoch University

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Deputy Chief Minister, Government of NCT of Delhi

DUBAI

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The sixth WES was organised in Dubai in collaboration with Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Dubai. It witnessed presence of 100 schools and colleges from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. World education awards over the years have seen top innovations from education sector in private and public space get highlighted and recognised at this global platform.

Dr Abdulla Al Karam Hon. V. Radhakrishnan Chairman of the Board of Directors & Director General, KHDA, Dubai

State Minister of Education Sri Lanka

Dr Ayoub Kazim

Dr. B.R. Shetty

Chris Cobb

Vice-Chancellor (Operations) & COO University of London,UK

Ryan Pinto

Managing Director Dubai Chairman Abu Dhabi Indian CEO, Ryan International International Academic City School Group of Institutions and Dubai Knowledge Village

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2016

The seventh WES was organised in New Delhi in collaboration with NSDC, and witnessed presence of 200 Schools and 130 Universities from India.

World Education Awards over the years have seen top innovations from education sector in private and public sector. These innovations were highlighted and recognised at this global platform.

Raghubar Das

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Jharkhand

Eduardo J PadrĂłn

President, Miami Dade College, Miami

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Minister of miniority Affairs, Ambassador, Embassy Government of India of Poland

Dr Marc Poulin,

Assistant Professor, School of Graduate Studies & Director of MBA and MITGov pograms, Canadian University, Dubai.

Amol Arora

Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Shemrock & Shemford Group of Schools

BAHRAIN

2017

From Dubai to Bahrain, the World Education Summit organised on 8-9 March, was more than a conference. It has created a strong community around it and provided various business and networking opportunities for education leaders and industry leaders.

HE Dr Majid Bin Ali AL- Christine Nasserghodsi Paul Fear Director of Innovation and Chief Executive Officer, Nuaimi Minister of Education, Kingdom of Bahrain

Prof Ghassan Aouad

President, Applied Science University, Bahrain

Entrepreneurship, Gems British Accreditation Education, Dubai Council, United Kingdom

Ken Jones

CEO, Al Dhafra Private Schools, Abu Dhabi

Prof Yusuf Abdul Ghaffar Abdulla President, Kingdom University, Bahrain

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DENVER

2017

9th World Education Summit 2017, Denver brought together the pioneers of education fraternity to the University of Denver for exchanging and retaining new innovations in education industry.

The University of Denver was the appropriate place for such kind of a educational workshop which witnessed congregation of educationists from all over the world.

DELHI

2017

The World Education Summit 2017 Delhi created another knowledge sharing platform to discuss various aspects of ICT for education ranging from School Education to Higher Education and Technical Education. Global Leaders like Minister of Education from Dubai, Sri Lanka and various dignitaries from other countries participated in the premier conference on education held in the capital.

Kiran Maheshwari

Anil Sahasrabudhe Chairman, AICTE

Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, MHRD, Government of India

Chris Cobb

Dr V S Radhakrishnan

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Minister, Higher and Technical Education, Sanskrit Education, Science and Technology, Government of Rajasthan

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Operations) and Chief Operating Officer, University of London

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Director of Education Development, KHDA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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DUBAI

2017

A galaxy of edu-leaders from different parts of the world recently joined Dubai’s top-notch education experts and practitioners to deliberate upon the latest innovations, practices, strategies and challenges of the educational landscape of Dubai. The occasion was 11th elets World Education Summit (WES) 2017, Dubai, which witnessed an impressive congregation of key decision-makers including education ministers, top government officials, college/university directors and vice-chancellors, school owners and principals.

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Dr Archana Thakur

Chairman of the Board Chief Vigilance Officer & of Directors and Director Joint Secretary University General of the Knowledge Grants Commission and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Dubai

Mark Beer

OBE Chief Executive DIFC Courts Dubai International Financial Centre

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Ramesh Mudgal

Principal Global Indian International School

Kalthoom Al Balooshi Executive Director of Education Development, KHDA, Dubai

Scott Stevenson

Co-Founder, BEEM Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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WORLD EDUCATION SUMMIT LEGACY

DELHI

2018

The growing need to deliver and propagate relevant education in an effective and innovative manner in preschool, school and higher education domains was the central idea of the Elets 12th World Education Summit held in the national capital recently. The endeavour was to build an educated society capable of taking up challenges and becoming future-ready with the help of exchange of knowledge and experiences. It was a congregation comprising a galaxy of edu-leaders from different parts of the world deliberating upon the latest policies, innovations, practices, and strategies of global educational landscape.

Dhan Singh Rawat

Hon’ble Higher Education Minister, Government of Uttarakhand

Anju Sharma

Principal Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Government of Gujarat

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Temjen Imna Along

Hon’ble Minister,Higher & Technical Education, Government of Nagaland

Augusto Montiel

Hon’ble Ambassador, Embassy of Venezuela

Ashutosh AT Pednekar Ramanathan Ramanan Secretary Higher Education & Commissioner, College Education, Government of Rajasthan

Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Government of India

MUMBAI

2018

In the wake of so many innovations in technology boosting the education domain and creating numerous possibilities for changing education delivery, a big platform was created to evoke discussions and deliberations in terms of 13th World Education Summit (WES) Mumbai. The endeavour was particularly aimed to boost the Government-Industry Academia partnership.

It was a congregation of edu-leaders of the Indian and global education system in December to redefine the processes required to analyse, understand, and share the modern-day education practices,

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Commissioner, Department of College & Technical Education

Secretary & Commisioner Board of Intermediate Education, Govt. of Telangana

Nitin Kumar Topani

Dr Archana Thakur

Major Harsh Kumar

District Planning Officer, Amreli District, Gujarat

Joint Secretary, UGC

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his article presents a case study, conducted to investigate how integration of technology in K-12 education sector, in different school environments, and different student demography, can impact learner’s engagement and academic performance. Our findings clearly indicate that the suggestions made in the proposed National Education Policy (NEP) are easily doable, and, if implemented with right kind of tools and strategies, as used in this study, can have tremendous positive impact on several outcomes envisioned in the NEP. Initial findings in this study can open the door for implementation at a much wider scale in a shorter time span.

Tools used in the study: 1) Digital content aligned with the National Curriculum (NCERT) for teaching-learning-assessment with dynamic graphics and animations that can be delivered on-line through/via any web enabled smart gadget including Tablets/PC/Ipads/(Smart Mobile phone); 2) Learning Management System (LMS) that provides tools needed to/for delivering and managing instruction, and 3) Structured instructional approach for regular teaching, and Adaptive practice testing before any summative assessment that empowers the teacher to engage students in class and at home; 4) Teacher training and professional development process designed in such a way that it becomes a part of their teaching and student evaluation. The delivery on content and use of LMS tools requires no downloads and no installations, because content is in HTML5 and LMS is programmed in Dot.net Implementation requirements: 1) Projection systems in class rooms, 2) preferably one computer lab with as many computers as class size in school, 3) at least 4-5 hours per week after-school internet access for students to complete their weekly home assignments.

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Teacher training for two days face-to-face meetings, and then continuous training as they teach, requiring them to complete student assignments before these are assigned to students every week, all managed through digital controls through LMS tools.

Master lesson Plans for all grades and courses, prepared jointly under the supervision of the school subject coordinators, all online, that included weekly online home assignments for students and what teacher is expected is teach during every week. Online weekly assignments have a circular approach: Tutorial->Homework->Quiz for

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each subject to be completed in that sequence, enforced electronically by making tutorial as pre-requisite to homework and homework in turn as pre-requisite to quiz on the same assigned topics.

The first term of the school started after the teacher training.

During the first week of this term, teachers provided orientation to students through pre-recorded orientation videos, and conducting one period in the lab for students to complete their first online assignment in the presence of the class teacher.

Thereafter, weekly lesson was followed as designed in the digital Master Lesson Plan. All weekly assignments became active after every Sunday mid-night, automatically, and expire just before mid-night the following Sunday.

Weekly routine for teachers included two types of tasks, i) every day, and the other every week. Every day, teacher was expected, and most of them did so, to check and respond to messages in her internal e-mails from her students. (Student messages, sent while studying online, contained screen shots of the page from where the message of help was sent).

They were expected to mark electronic attendance in every class period, the LMS allowed different options for marking

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Student engagement: On average the students spent 5.25 hours per week on online assignments for all five subjects.

All students had different assignment questions with the same degree of difficulty, minimising the scope of any unfair means. Students received instant feedback with solutions on all assignments and option to retake assignments if score was not satisfactory, minimising anxiety level.

Student survey conducted, using system’s survey tools, had more than 90% positive response to all the survey questions, indicating total freedom from anxiety and forward looking approach for every assignment The principal reported that student’s reading and writing skills have improved as reported by the teachers to her.

Teachers reported that their work load of doing traditional routine tasks like grading, recording, reporting, and even counseling has significantly reduced, and time saved is used for their other professionally rewarding engagements like: studying before taking class for completing the cycle (Tutorial

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as lecture notes-homework-quiz), watching students activity reports of their work online, and staying in touch with them through e-mails and weekly online announcements.

For feedback video please visit: bit.ly/educofeedback • Service providers, staff of “Educo Development Foundation”, spent extensive amount of time in providing support to students and teachers during the first year, but that was reduced, just after one year, to courtesy visits to school. New batch of sixth graders picked up from their student peers, and teachers knew what they had to do.

The yearly lesson plan created in the first year was virtually duplicated with small adjustments for the second year, meaning there was no need of additional teacher training in the second year except for one meeting of EDF staff for overview of the first year results and orientation of new features of LMS updated based on their recommendations during the previous year.

Best student performers, judged exclusively based on their online activity records and performance in online assignments, were recognised with trophies. One of the most interesting observation was that there was a strong positive correlation between the time spent online on assignments and their grades in online assignments and paper-pencil tests. Because of the commitment of the school administration, all teething issues, and problems related to EWS students not having internet access at home were carefully managed and resolved by the school.

The objective of this study was to establish that given proper guidance, tools and training to the teachers, effective well planned integration of the use of technology can make a real difference.

Resistance to change and initial teething problems can be easily resolved if the service providers and the school administration are committed to be the partners of change, as was the case in this study.

Findings of this study clearly indicate that what is envisioned in NEP can be achieved, at a national level. Resources needed are available, as mentioned here. What is needed is to officially conduct such pilots at a larger scale for greater awareness and acceptability.

The Educo Development Foundation (EDF) welcomes any school to join in this movement for “effective integration of technology in 21st century teaching and learning process”. For more information or for becoming apart of the extended pilot, call: 011-4-555-3-801 (Pushpish).

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attendance: Present, Absent, Tardy/Late, Exempted. Every week, teacher had two major tasks: i) to complete the cycle of activities (Tutorial-Homework-Quiz) before discussing in class and before assigning to students; ii) check her class’s online activities and send reminders to those who lagged behind in completing their assignments. Teacher had the option to modify any assessment item, if considered inappropriate based on what she was to discuss in class.

Hopefully, during her own study, she was better prepared to conduct her presentation in class and gain more confidence on what students would get in assignments. This is what we call continuous professional development.

The lesson plans included summative assessments at the end of school terms and the final. Every summative assessment had an online Adaptive Practice Testing (APT), for the students to prepare for the main tests.

All types of real time student progress and activity reports were available to teachers and the school principal under their own logins. Parents received automated weekly reports on their child’s performance through emails and text messages.

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EDU EXPERT’S OPINION

Director, MITCON Institute of Management, Pune

ECONOMY AND EDUCATION ARE INTERCONNECTED

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conomy and education are very closely interconnected. It is impossible for any country to be developed without allocating highest possible expenditure for development of education and human resource,” Dr Ganesh Rao, Director, MITCON Institute of Management, Pune.

He was among the key speakers at 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave who shared their thoughts to improve the higher education sector of India. He suggested various measures that may help the country’s youth and economy to grow simultaneously.

He emphasised on nurturing the students without confused minds saying, “Unemployable, globalised curriculum and globalised context are among the key buzzwords among the education fraternity nowadays. It is creating doubts in the minds of young students.”

Questioning the media’s role in improving the education ecosystem across the country, Dr Rao said, “With a population of around 140 crore of which 50 crore — a bit less than half of the population belongs to the age group of 5-24. We have got 900 universities; 40,000 colleges; nine lakh faculty members;

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and 3.5 crore students out of 140 crore. Nowadays, it is very common in media publications and news papers to create panic about Indian education sector.”

Suggesting the measures for improving the current scenario, Dr Rao suggested that the educators can play major role in that. He said, “It has been done by publishing the stories like: Engineering colleges are closing down!!! Is there a problem and others? It is very important for us as educationist to come together and reveal the truth that there is no such crisis, only a mismatch. This mismatch has to be tuned right without being panic.”

He also defines that what exactly are the changes required for education sector. Emphasising that not the basic education rather we need to change the practices, he said, “Another very common thing we hear nowadays is that the education system needs to be changed. It is important to note here that we need not to change the education basics rather we just need to change education practices and adopt latest technologies.

We need to inculcate confidence among the youth so that they don’t get stressed due to ridiculous stories.”

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‘RAJASTHAN GOVT EMHASISES ON PROVIDING QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION’

Dr Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj

State Nodal Officer, Innovations & Skill Development Programmes, Department of College Education, Government of Rajasthan

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e emphasise on providing quality education to students in Rajasthan. The four areas Rajasthan Government focussing on to ensure quality higher education are: Quality, Delivery, Facility and Employability,” said Dr Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj, State Nodal Officer, Innovations & Skill Development Programmes, Department of College Education, Government of Rajasthan.

Being a key speaker 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Pune 2019, Dr Bhardwaj shared various details about the Rajasthan’s higher education ecosystem. He also provide details about current and expected Government schemes that may help the State’s higher education sector improve.

Describing about how big State’s education system is, Dr Bhardwaj said, “The State currently has 252 government colleges in which around 4.20 lakh regular students are pursuing various courses. Another interesting fact is that out of these students, almost 50% are girls. Along with government colleges, there are 1,569 private colleges and 837 BEd Colleges. So, the State has over 2,700 colleges with more than 9 lakh students.”

“Every Year, over 1,20,000 students in undergraduate arts, commerce and science courses (BA, BCom, BSc) are admitted to government colleges across Rajasthan. We received more than four lakh applications in this regard,” he added.

He also described how the department focuses on bringing

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Excellence in Higher Education. According to him, “To bring Excellence in higher education, we focus on four aspects: Student-centric quality education, standardised institutional growth, faculties’ efficiency enhancement, and institutional social responsibility.”

Raising a very important concern about overcoming the societal challenges with the help of educational institutions, Dr Bhardwaj stated, “Social Responsibility is not only the duty of corporate. It is also the responsibility to share equally by the government institutions as they have been allotted funds for various activities. Along with imparting quality education, institution must also have a good connect with the society as it will help in overcoming the societal challenges.”

Describing about various initiatives of Rajasthan Government to boost skills among students, he revealed, “As one of the Government’s strategic initiatives, the ‘Student-centric Learning and Capacity Enhancement Programme’ is helping students to improve their learning (academics) as well as get hands-on experience in industry-relevant skills.”

He also revealed that the Department of College Education, Government of Rajasthan, has signed MoUs with different organisations to boost skills among students and to impart training to faculty members in the colleges across the State.

The department has signed MoUs with organisations including: IGNOU, Microsoft, HIK Vision, McGraw Hill and many others.

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EDU EXPERT’S OPINION

Dr R S Panwar

Director, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Rabindranath School of Excellence, Pune.

‘TECHNOLOGY CAN’T REPLACE TEACHERS’

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ne important thing that comes to everyone’s mind that after digitisation of education, will teachers be required? Teachers will always be required as technology can assist a teacher but cannot replace them,” said Dr R S Panwar, Director, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Rabindranath School of Excellence, Pune.

He was speaking at the Inaugural session of 12th School Leadership Summit Pune. Dr Panwar discussed various important aspects that may support in improving the education sector.

Sharing his thoughts on technology’s role in education sector, Dr Panwar said, “The use of technology and digital tools in education is growing at a rapid rate. It is likely that after 50 years, we may find that there are no physical schools.

Practices like Flipped Classrooms are on similar lines. We must be thankful technology and educationist who helped us to realise that how digital tools can improve teaching-learning processes.”

Describing about how the school was started, Dr Panwar

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said, “Bharati Vidyapeeth started functioning with certificate examinations in English and Mathematics for the school going children. Nowadays, the schools under the aegis of Bharati Vidyapeeth assists in holistic development of students right from pre-primary to higher secondary classes. The practices followed at the schools ensure a strong base for pursuing higher education.”

“Currently, there are 91 units spread over nine districts of Maharashtra namely Pune, Sangli, Satara, Kolhapur, Solapur, Navi Mumbai, Raigad, Thane and Palghar. These schools include a few cosmopolitan and international schools as well as the schools in interior regions. We ensure that the regional differences are not reflected in the academics, facilities and infrastructure in remotely located schools. Amongst 91 schools, English and Marathi Medium Schools ranging from Pre-primary to Junior College we have 16 Pre-primary Schools, 17 Primary Schools, 40 High Schools, 16 Junior Colleges and 2 ITI units with a strength of over 30,000 students,” he added.

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‘HIGHER EDUCATION NEEDS TO FOCUS MORE ON NATIONAL CONTEXT’

Prof Amita Mahor

Dean, VIT University, Bhopal

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t is very important to focus on national context of education before globalised context. Though there is no harm in adopting the best global practices and stay relevant as per the trends but at the same time focusing on education trends relevant to Indian trends will be more beneficial,” said Prof Amita Mahor, Dean, VIT University, Bhopal.

Prof Mahor was among key speakers at the 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Pune. She shared her thoughts during a panel discussion on the topic – Changing Dynamics of Higher Education in a Globalised Context: Envisioning Strategies for Future.

Stressing on a very important point that quality of higher education should be improved, Prof Mahor said, “There was a time when it was necessary to make higher education accessible to a large no of people in the country. Thanks

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to our Government’s efforts and policies that the same has been realised. Now, the quality of education is needed to be improved.”

“On every platform, we talk about improving the quality of education but very few of us will be aware about the parameters on which the quality of any education ecosystem can be adjudged. These parameters will not only help the institutes to improve their ranking but it will also help students choose the most suitable institute as per their requirements,” she added.

Prof Mahor also suggested that the higher education must serve every community in India for sustainable development.

According to her, “In order to have sustainable development in the country, it is necessary to serve the local communities. It means that the higher education must empower our grass root level workers like farmers, labourers, mechanics and others.

Education will help them to know about the best practices of respective sectors and boost their productivity.”

Sharing her thoughts on encouraging innovation in higher education landscape of the country, she said, “Innovation in higher education should not only be limited to adopting new technologies rather we also need to focus on adopting the latest pedagogical practices. It is often heard from the institutes that our curriculum is at par to the global standards which is a good thing. However, the curriculum must also serve the needs of our country’s requirement then only we can be successful.”

She also raised a very important issue of brain drain in the country. Suggesting a solution for the same, Prof Mahor said, “A huge portion Indian taxpayers’ money is being spent on teaching the students who lately work in a foreign country. It is bad for country’s growth and the Government must bring such policies which may help India to retain its talent.”

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Brijesh Karia

National Business Head, Robomate

‘TECHNOLOGY IN HANDS OF GOOD TEACHERS, A BOON FOR EDUCATION SYSTEM’

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e don’t need technology geeks which are good teachers; we need teaching geeks who are good with technology. Because I firmly believe, no technology can replace a teacher but definitely good technology given to a good teacher will absolutely change the environment,” said Brijesh Karia, National Business Head, Robomate+.

He was speaking at the 12th School Leadership Summit Pune, organised by Elets Tchnomedia and powered by digitalLEARNING on May 18, 2019. Karia was among the key speakers who graced the inaugural session of the summit with their presence. In his address, Karia talked about certain pressure points students are facing and best practices being followed in the last 2-3 years.

Highlighting the fuss created around Class 10 board exams, he said, “I am working with 300 plus schools across the length and breadth of the country. We have been seeing a lot of changes. Everyone would agree that board has become the centre of a child’s life, especially Class 10 students. I was talking to one of my students recently and it made me realise that children are put under so much stress, pressure, and durance for no reason whatsoever”.

Sharing his personal communiqué with a child over the matter, Karia said, “When we talk to students, when we counsel them, we ask one question – “What is your biggest problem? Their biggest problem is lack of time. After spending 6 to 7 hours in school they are forced to go to tuitions for 2-3 hours. So, 10 hours of a day either they are sitting in

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the school or a coaching class plus 1-2 hours of travelling.

Then after coming back home from coaching, they have to finish homework given at school as well as tuition. Moreover, the problem increases if any surprise test is there. Such a huge stress confuses all the students and eventually they end up studying nothing.”

Thereafter, he talked about what the schools pan India are doing to solve the problem of the students. Karia said, “One best practice that I have seen across the country is use of technology. Most of the schools are using technology in an excellent manner. I know about some schools which are doing flipped classroom pedagogy. They are telling the students in advance that tomorrow I am going to teach you certain topic, why don’t you read/watch that topic and come. So children know beforehand that this is going to happen.”

“Singhania School in Thane – which is one of the top ICSE schools of the country, has created an app for the students where teachers are giving recorded video lessons. So what happens is – students have learnt from the teacher, once they go home they don’t feel the need to go to tuitions. They open the app do the revision and their studies are done. So that’s what schools are doing,” he added.

“Another best practice is conferences like the one we are attending today. Schools must send their teachers here. There are certain wonderful discussions that happen in the panel.

Believe me we have learnt a lot by just listening to some of the key industry speakers. This is one thing that I feel will help in changing the dynamics in the school,” Karia concluded.

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HANDS-ONLEARNING BRINGS BALANCE BETWEEN EDUCATION & ENJOYMENT Pravesh Mohey

Regional Manager Marketing & Sales, Butterfly Edufields

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he present teaching system involves lectures, readings, demonstrations, and audio-visuals but we have understood that it doesn’t help in enhancing grasping power of a child. Instead, hands on learning, teaching others, group discussions have a higher retention rate. And this has been proven as well that by involving kids in learning process balances education and enjoyment simultaneously,” said Pravesh Mohey, Regional Manager – Marketing & Sales, Butterfly Edufields.

He was speaking at the 11th School Leadership Summit 2019, Chandigarh, on the topic: ‘Bridging the Learning Divide – Experiential Learning is the Way Forward’. The summit was organised on April 12, 2019 by Elets Technomedia, a premier media and technology research organisation.

Explaining about his company’s narrative in providing hands-on learning experience to students, Mohey said, “We at Butterfly intent to address and bridge this learning gap by offering affordable Hands on Solutions in Science & Math.

This might not answer all the whys but will surely bring out the fear of ‘why’ among children”.

As per the National Training Laboratories, Maine, USA – the average retention rate among students is highest with Hands on Learning – 75% whereas with discussion it is 50%.

On the other hand, it is 30% with demonstration and 20% with audio visual whereas shockingly it is lowest in reading and learning with just 10% and 5% respectively. The data was revealed in an industry presentation given by Mohey during his address at the summit.

Explaining the reason for the name ‘Butterfly’ and his company’s vision, Mohey said, “We know the evolution of

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caterpillar to a butterfly. Every child has that potential and should get that opportunity to evolve like a butterfly from a caterpillar. We want to develop every child in a way that he gets a chance to learn from different formats”.

“Just like caterpillar every child has the potential to transform into a unique individual. Our vision is to make learning more enriching, engaging and fun for all sections of children in developing world and around. When children apply what they learn, they become doers and that’s what we want in the world right now. Doers are the ones who succeed in their chosen fields in the future,” he added.

Further, highlighting the importance of answering questions of kids, Mohey stated, “We cannot make a kid understand something by simply telling it – Ye Aisa hi hota hai (it is like this only) rather it is important to explain ‘why it is so’. So at butterfly, we make sure to appropriately explain “why” to the kids.”

“Interestingly, so far, Butterfly has been able to impact the lives of 11, 00,000 students, touched 9,000 schools, covered 18 states and expanded in 3 countries. Skills like scientific temperament, observational and critical thinking, curiosity and perseverance have been inculcated by the students while involved in hands on learning,” he added.

In Butterfly Edufield’s presentation – it was reported that an improvement of 40 percentile in Science was recorded in schools where Butterfly Edufield’s Hands on Activity related to Conductivity, Electric Circuit was done whereas a 25 percentile improvement was measured in Maths subject in which Hands on Activity related to geometry was conducted.

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