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Underlining Technological Excellence in Education Landscape The technology-driven and innovation-centric Indian education sector is embracing novel practices every day. The new instruments of change are fascinating and facilitating students along with teachers to achieve excellence in all their endeavours. From empowering educators to impart unforgettable educational experiences, technology has surfaced as a powerful tool to innovate and transform the education ecosystem in every possible way.

In this light, our cover story – “Top Emerging Technologies in Education Sector” touches upon the most relevant technologies of present times such as AR, VR, IoT, Gamification, Learning Apps, AI, and Machine Learning among many others. It vividly explains the essence of top trending technologies and how they are improving the entire ecosystem of education comprising schools, colleges and universities.

On the other hand, our special story – “Getting Back to School: Making New Session Compulsive”, talks about the challenges schools face while beginning the new academic session and what they do to retain student’s interests. The story incorporates the views of some of the top edu-leaders from the school education industry on the matter.

Apart from this, the magazine also carries a feature comprising reactions from education experts on the Union Budget 2019-20, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently. One of the highlights of the budget was the allocation Rs 400 crore for establishing World Class Education Institutions in the country. Interestingly, the first budget of Modi Government 2.0 has received positive reactions from almost every educationist in the country.

Besides, the issue also covers a comprehensive report on 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Pune and 12th School Leadership Summit Pune. It is a compilation of the deliberations of key Government dignitaries, stakeholders and top educationists from school, higher education and human resource industry on varied agenda topics.

In August 2019, Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd and digitalLEARNING are going to showcase the latest innovations and best practices by organising the biggest summit on innovation in education -- 14th World Education Summit Delhi 2019. The summit as a confluence of some of the leading thinkers in the education world will enable all to understand education world’s challenges and their solutions through a new prism.

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

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Emerging technologies in education revolutionise the way students and teachers work and interact by eliminating the challenges and understanding the needs, observes Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN).

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Emerging Education and Tech Trends A recent poll revealed that 75% of educators believe that digital content will replace textbooks by the year 2026, and there are more remarkable technologies on the way. In fact, choosing which innovations to bring into the classroom is somewhat of a challenge for educators.

Students in the classrooms of tomorrow can look forward to working with exciting resources, such as robotic kits that educators used to teach coding.

Also, educators have grown weary of traditional standardized testing frameworks. Now, digital testing is emerging as an empowering resource that allows educators to track student performance and measure learning improvement over time.

Furthermore, institutions can leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop customized student learning solutions based on test results.

Sharing his thoughts on usage of technology in education, Dr B Sendilkumar, Dean & DirectorHealth Sciences, Vinayaka Mission”s Research Foundation-Deemed to be University, said, “The 21st century will witness the democratization of learning. Anyone can teach and anyone can learn.

In this era, learning will be available to everyone, everywhere, and all the time. The most important skill to develop will be the ability to learn. Fast learners will outpace machines and fellow humans, and educators will need to improve the learning ability of their students.”

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age group or level of education, and can be used equally well in all levels of schooling; from preschool education up to college, or even at work.

Virtual Reality is the term used to describe a three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.

VR implies a complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world. Example, instead of having a classroom setting being taught about History, students can be taken virtually back in time and see events unfold in front of them.

Arpan Stephen, E-Learning Expert - Medical Education, explained the importance of AR, VR and other technologies in education, he said, “Augmented and Virtual Reality is a game changer in educational pedagogy. It changes the way we learn, providing experiential learning by simulating real world environment. AR and VR increases student engagement drastically by providing them insight to what they will experience in various environments. We all are visual learners and this technology is one of the most powerful one to overcome learning challenges by bringing students as close as possible to reality.”

Artificial Intelligence: The academic world is becoming more convenient and personalised thanks to the numerous applications of AI for education. This has changed the way people

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ecent advancements in Educational Technology (Ed-Tech) are nothing short of amazing. The developments that have emerged in this field are empowering educators to create remarkable learning experiences for today’s young minds.

Now, the education field looms on the horizon of positive disruption. New technologies promise to make it easier and faster for students to learn.

Explaining about how technology is helpful in education, Sahil Aggarwal, CEO & Co-Founder, Rishihood University, said, “Technology has become an enabler in democratising education.

21st century will witness a disruption in learning”.

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Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality: Augmented reality in education can serve a number of purposes. It helps the students easily acquire, process, and remember the information.

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learn since educational materials are becoming accessible to all through smart devices and computers. Today, students don’t need to attend physical classes to study as long as they have computers and internet connection. AI is also allowing the automation of administrative tasks, allowing institutions to minimize the time required to complete difficult tasks so that the educators can spend more time with students.

Machine Learning: Machine learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that helps computers or teaching machines learn from all previous data and make intelligent decisions. In the field of education, teachers can save time in their non-classroom activities by adopting machine learning. For example, teachers can use virtual assistants who work remotely from the home for their students. This kind of assistance helps to enhance students’ learning experience and can improve progression and student achievement.

Cloud: Cloud computing is a buzzing word now-a-days in ICT industry. It means delivery of computing resources over the internet. It has opened a wider aspect of computing application and provides a global platform for people. It is helpful for every sector from enterprise usage to educational purpose. Traditional classroom (Four

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Students will be much benefited. Institutes of weak financial state can have high computing facilities within low cost.

STEM: STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. STEM is important because it pervades every part of our lives. Science is everywhere in the world around us. Technology is continuously expanding into every aspect of our lives. Engineering is the basic designs of roads and bridges,and also tackles the challenges of changing global weather and environmentally-friendly changes to our home.

Mathematics is in every occupation, every activity we do in our lives IoT: The Internet of Things is indeed transforming the education sector and making learning simpler, faster and safer. Common barriers to education like Geography, language, Disability can cease to exist with the help of these technologies. However, this is just the beginning and we have just started scratching the surface of what technology-based education can look like in the future.

Smart Interactive Display Solutions: Gone are the days when teachers wrote things on chalkboards as a means of displaying lessons to students. The overhead projector is even

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becoming extinct. Instead, schools are making use of large, interactive displays like SMART Boards and innovative projectors. Interactive display makes it easier for students to use devices to participle in class surveys, quizzes, and games, then analyse results in real time.

Adoption of these projectors has eliminated the classroom walls.

Learning Management System: A learning management system is a server-based or cloud based software program. It contains information about users, courses and content. A learning management system provides a place to learn and teach without depending on the time and space boundaries. Learning management systems are also known as Course Management Systems (CMS), Personal learning Environment (PLE), e-learning courseware and Virtual learning Environments (VLE).

Learning Apps: In the last few years, technology has changed the way of teaching and learning. Now education is no more restricted to lectures, talks and physical objects, as digitization has overcome this pattern of study. Trendy and engaging apps are likely to rule over the boring education pattern in future. Students are also showing their interest as the mobile app allows

them to learn through gamification. Undoubtedly, the results are superb by combining education and technology for effective learning Assessment Solutions: The Assessment Solutions are tools to help teachers and students better understand the steps needed to improve the learning outcomes. By following this process teachers can learn what his/her students need to know and what change they need to embrace to improve their teaching methodologies. While designing an assessment solution, both teachers and students must collaborate to understand needs and a list of possible criteria.

Gamification: A game-based learning is about crafting the content around game-story.

The students may create their own games or play other commercial video games. On the other hand, gamification is about shaping the game around educational context. Gamification operates on the assumption that the engagement experienced by the gamer should be translated to the learning context. This would eventually influence the behavior of student while facilitating learning at the same time.

Payment Gateway: Paying fees for school, university or applying for a course is time consuming, as students or their parents have to visit the educational institutes or nodal centers and stand in queues to make payments. The time and money spent in paying fee can be used more productively. With digital payments, cash based fee payments will be a passĂŠ. With online and mobile payments students will be able to pay at their convenience, remotely and in smaller installments. These types of payments are not only restricted to debit and credit card users, but the unbanked people using mobile money services such as Airtel Money, M-PESA, EcoCash, Orange Money and Mobicash are also able to make digital payments using feature phone.

The idea of implementing technology in the classroom is not new. However, technology has taken off in the classroom in relatively recent years. As the field matures, emerging firms promise to deliver exciting new resources for learners. While the direction of EdTech is unclear, analysts forecast that this promising field is in its very early beginnings.

No doubt, all education will continue to be valuable and necessary. Students and people will need to continue to adapt to technology, continue to want to learn, and continue to stay motivated in their own self-development

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Making new session compulsive The beginning of new educational session, especially after a long gap, brings its share of challenges and opportunities. The onus is on schools to adopt measures to ensure students feel comfortable and get-in-sync with the curriculum as soon as possible, writes Rumani Arora for Elets News Network (ENN).

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fter a long gap of two months, here comes that time of the year when school bells will ring again and the sight of students going to school with bags on their back will be common. Most schools have reopened already while others are about to open after the summer holidays for the new academic session.

Well! A new school year calls for a new beginning. And to make it one, it is important for both schools and students to have a preplanned strategy in place before taking on the responsibilities of the new session. For schools, it is undoubtedly quite challenging to set the tempo for the new educational session right away after the break.

It takes its own sweet time to bring the faculty, students and school schedules on the same page.

Sharing his experience on the same, Kanak Gupta, Director, Seth M.R. Jaipuria Schools, said, “After the summer break of almost two months, there is definite slow-down in the learning process as students

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and teachers both are warming-up once again to school schedules, learning challenges and so on. There would be definite further logistics challenges, as two months of limbo means scheduling issues, and coming back to track is tough”.

M Varalakshmi, Principal, Jubilee Hills Public School, was also of the view that resuming the session after a long gap is challenging in terms of “handling the new staff members and new admission students, regeneration of time table, technological advancements, ID cards and transport allotment”.

On the other hand, if we talk about students, the feeling of “getting back to school” might not necessarily be elating for all of them. The reason being, after spending weeks away from the school and relaxing and enjoying over the holidays, students are hesitant to go back to tedious schedule. The preparations for a new school year can turn out to be overwhelming and intimidating for them, which might result in low attendance.

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Mere bringing back the students to school is not enough. It is to be understood that it isn’t about the attendance but it’s a matter of mindset.

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But, regardless of this, students are keen to return to school if there’s no fear of, or aversion to, school. It’s important to create that environment. This can only be created before the summer break. Students need to look forward to returning to school. We make it a point to make Satlujians feel responsible about learning: they’re learning not for their parents, but for themselves.”

Apart from the environment, the pedagogy followed by a school also plays an important role in retaining the interests of the students and wanting them to come back. On similar lines, Dr Abdul Jaleel Perla, Principal, Aliya Senior Secondary School, Kasargod, Kerala, said, “Learning is all about relatively permanent change in behavior which happens either through pleasant or unpleasant experiences. The main focus of the school should be at creating pleasant experiences which help a child’s holistic development. If the experience created by a school through annual pedagogical planning is pleasant one then children will die to get to school, they will not die when they get to school.”

However, mere bringing back the students to school is not enough. It is to be understood that it isn’t about the attendance but it’s a matter of mindset. Schools have to make sure that their students are ready to embrace learning again. One way to ensure it is assigning them holiday homework which is based on practical and real life problems. Further, schools can endeavor to be digitally connected with the parents throughout the vacation by floating summer engagement ideas for the students and other non-academic enrichment content making both parents and students connected to the school. Apart from this, keeping an examination within two weeks of reopening of schools can help in giving a kick start to the academic schedule.

It must be noted that students learn best when they can apply what they’ve learn, practically. Schools must emphasise on incorporating Applied Lessons (ALs) as an element of their pedagogy. Every lesson of the curriculum must be designed in such a way that it can be applied practically. It has a tremendous potential to improve the way students perceive learning.

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Commenting on the same, Chandrashekar DP, CEO, JGI Schools, said, “The attendance after holidays is usually poor to average as parents take it for granted and due to their lackadaisical attitude, delay sending their children to school. After a gap of close to two months from school some students often have difficulties recalling facts and concepts mastered in the previous class.”

In this scenario, the onus is on schools to make sure students feel comfortable and get attuned to the learning process as soon as possible after the reopening of schools.

Manju Rana, Principal Cum Director, Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Ghaziabad, shared the steps taken at her school. “On the first day of school reopening, students and teachers share their vacation experiences with each other helping in creating interest through informal conversation. The students are allowed to sit with their buddies and newly admitted students are made comfortable by assigning a peer mentor. Reconnecting students with the concepts already taught through various activities, games, quiz, worksheets and active learning strategies. Flexible Break time is given in the Primary section,” she said.

Nita Arora, Co Learner and Co Creator, Sri Venkateshwar International School Sector - 18, Dwarka, New Delhi, also shared what her school is doing to engage senior secondary students.

“We missed our students and having them back made us feel joyful. The first month is full of activities and sports to add greater joys to schooling after vacations. The school has already organised Scholastic Achievement Test for Classes 9-10 students, Mock PRMO Olympiad for Classes 9-12 students, three days Mini Behes’ Training for Classes 6-12 students, InterHouse Extempore Debate for Classes 6-8 students.

Inter - House Sports, STEM Expo and Culture Day Class 5 are next being held,” she said.

While such activities can engage the students to a great level, it is also important to understand that every student comes with his/her own unique personality and might have anxieties when stepping into the new academic session. As it brings a whole lot of new challenges and the person might not be ready to dive into the ‘sea of new possibilities’. So how should schools deal with this?

Speaking on the subject, Reekrit Serai, Director & Dean, Satluj Group of Schools, Panchkula, Chandigarh, emphasised on the need of creating an environment in the schools where students are keen to come.

Quoting his school’s example, he said, “On day one, across our campuses, attendance was nearly 99%. This was due to the approaching examinations.

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Sanjeevani World School: Nurturing Future Leaders Sanjeevani World School is a futuristic school wherein everyone is encouraged and inspired to learn the skills to succeed in the globalised arena, says Dr Seema Negi, Principal, Sanjeevani World School, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

In order to maintain a good learning environment, what activities along with studies are conducted at Sanjeevani World School?

We truly believe that for a good learning environment, a school has to do away with the mundane timetable of curricular and cocurricular activities. So to break the monotony, they have Club activities for languages, the last day of every month is a ‘No Bag Day’ so educators plan their teaching accordingly, sessions with the counsellor that’s called ‘Freeplay’ and also sessions with the Principal herself under the name ‘Principal ki Pathshala’.

What are your views on usage of technology in learning outcomes for students and which technology has helped school in improving learning outcomes?

We have various educational apps that we use for teachinglearning. Apart from that we take students to the Amphitheatre to show them movie, documentaries etc, Whiteboards are used in the classroom, online exams with multiple -choice questions are assessed to gauge their conduct, student’s projects are mailed on the school email id, students cast e-votes for student’s council elections. Listening activities to enhance their listening through audios played.

A good school must have good student-teacher coordination, what methods are followed by Sanjeevani World School to maintain the same?

The PTSA is an initiative of our school with the maxim “My voice counts”. Our students are an integral part of our school. So, our belief is “For the students, by the students, of the students”, hence with the PTSA being formed it’s not just parents and teachers who come together for planning and decision making in a healthy way for the development of the school but the students of the senior most grade too share their perspective.

How the curriculum adopted by Sanjeevani World School is interesting as well as focuses

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on the holistic development of children at your school?

Experiential and hands on learning is made available to the students in the various lab sessions that are conducted. In addition to that our corridors, foyers and stairs are also used as flip classroom where students are brought out of their normal setup, especially for and English or Social Studies class. This increases their curiosity and builds interest as they look forward to their next session for the same. Our curriculum caters to all the ‘Qs’ i.e. IQ, EQ, SQ and AQ. We have Life Skills sessions almost on a daily basis.

What is the vision and mission of the school?

Sanjeevani World School is the project by Sanjeevani Chandrabhan Agrawal Charitable Trust. The vision that we carry with this project is that we give back to the society and what could be the best other than quality education. We try to make our students capable of becoming good leaders of tomorrow, with the concept of “Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam”. Our mission statement is crafting Indian souls with global ethos.

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AICTE: Encouraging Research-based Education AICTE Perspective

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the statutory authority for planning, formulation, and maintenance of norms and standards. It also ensure quality assurance through accreditation, says Prof Alok Prakash Mittal, Member Secretary, All India Council for Technical Education, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

With New Education Policy likely to be released in sometime, how it will help in strengthening and improving quality in higher and technical education in India?

The New Education Policy is likely to focus more on digital learning i.e. increased usage of technology to improve learning. It also will help in improving the quality of education. Faculty members will be encouraged for more researches in their respective fields. In last two years, AICTE has taken several initiatives for research-oriented teaching and recruit more research oriented persons as faculty members.

With research being an important part of higher and technical education, what efforts have been undertaken by the AICTE to encourage the same among students?

As per the guideline issued by the AICTE, research degree (PhD) is a must for every faculty but good quality PhD scholars are very short in number. From last year, AICTE has started a research fellowship programme as well till now which were only limited to postgraduation courses only. This year onwards, 300 candidates

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will be benefitted with this fellowship programme so that we can have good quality PhD holders as the prospective faculty members.

In addition to that, we are also providing fellowship to the candidates for pursuing PhD abroad. Though the fellowship is provided in the first year only but it helps students in taking their first step towards pursuing the research work outside India.

How AICTE is encouraging entrepreneurship and start-up culture among students so that they employment generators and not just job seekers?

Since last three years, it is one of the prime objectives of AICTE to help institutes in nurturing job creators and not only the job seekers. More job creators will help in boosting the employment opportunities across the country. AICTE has also formulated a start-up policy which was launched by the then President of India Shri Pranav Mukherjee in 2016. We are focusing on encouraging students for having their own start-ups.

How do you think the technology is helping government regulatory bodies, colleges, faculty members and students to be familiarise with latest trends leading to betterment of higher and technical education sector?

The latest technology has helped the regulatory bodies and institutions/universities in getting the relevant content which is helping them to study what is needed. Moreover, the technical tools are helping the education stakeholders to be updated with latest trends across the globe which helps in staying relevant as per the industry demand.

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How significant is the role of industry-academia partnership and curriculum to nurture the skills required nationally or globally among Indian youth?

After completing a course, a graduate has to go for a job in the respective industry. So, it is very important that academia gets feedback from the industry only. It can be done via collaborations between industry and academia only. Students are being taught as per the curriculum which needs to be updated as per the requirements of the industry as they are the job providers. We are ensuring that the curriculum committee must have good representation from the industry. Relevant curriculum will also help industry in saving their expenditure on training of students.

What steps have been undertaken by AICTE to improve the teaching policies and methodologies of faculty members in higher education institutes across the country?

Having knowledge on a particular topic and delivering the same are two different things. To ensure that a faculty has good knowledge delivery skills, we made it mandatory that every faculty must complete a three-month teachers’ training programme during their regular degree or after that. Most of the institutions are already instructed with the same.

What message would you like to give our youth?

Hard work is the only key to success. Students must avoid shortcuts during their life as it will help them to become good professionals, citizens and contributor in nation building.

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andhi Institute of Technology and Management ([GITAM), established in 1980 by a group of reputed professionals led by Dr M V V S Murthi, is a premier Deemed-to-be University in the country having 39 years of track record in teaching and research of global standards. The institute conducts courses in diverse disciplines such as Engineering & Technology, Management, International Business, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Art & Humanities, Languages, Law and Medicine.

The University has three campuses at Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. They are endowed with world-class infrastructure and well-equipped laboratories along with student support services. The three campuses have 17 Institutes, 12 Disciplines, 52 Departments and 10 Research Centres. GITAM offers 190 programmes at UG, PG, and Doctoral level. The University provides a high quality education experience to students in a diverse learning environment. All the facilities and amenities are created to meet world class standards and students from several states are cherishing their dreams.

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, classified GITAM as Category ‘1’ University among deemed universities. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has accredited the University with ‘A+’ grade. The University Grants Commission accorded 12-B Statues to the University and many more such rewards and awards to the credit of GITAM. The Institution has well qualified and committed faculty of over 1250 with rich industrial and research background. Over 42% of the faculty are PhD degree holder. The faculty members have

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GITAM has nearly 22,000 regular full-time students and about 1,200 PhD students and over 84,000 students in distance mode hailing from different parts of the country.

The University has achieved nearly 90% placement through campus recruitment drive. In a way, it indicates the quality of education imparted by the university and the reputation it carries with the industry especially in the core sectors. The University takes its social responsibility very seriously and ensures that the out-reach programmes undertaken by the faculty and students benefit the community at large.

Consultancy: The Expertise of the University is being utilized by premier research institutions of the country, such as- Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO) etc.

Academic tie-ups: GITAM University has entered into tie-ups and collaborations with prestigious industries. These include tie-ups with Windsor university, University of Texas, West Virginia University, University of Glasgow, Central Michigan University, University of Nabraska etc. The University also has tie-ups with several multinational corporations- IBM, Ericsson, Oracle, Intelli Group, TCS, HCL, WIPRO, Hitachi Solutions, VirtusaPolaris, CSC, IITM, Cisco, VIzag Steel Plant, National Stock Exchange (NSE), Eisai Pharma, Dr. Reddy’s Lab to impart training in all professional programmes

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Union Budget 2019-20: What experts have to SAY Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government’s Union Budget 2019-20 has been applauded by almost every educationist. In its second term, the Government to emhasise more on establishing World Class Institutions has allocated Rs 400 crore for the same which is higher than that of the amount allocated in the previous budget. The initiative for bringing in more foreign students is also applauded by the education fraternity.

The decision to set up a National Research Foundation has also been welcomed by most of the edu-leaders as it will fund, coordinate and encourage research in India and has its positive effect in future.

The Government also showed its commitment towards holistic development of students as on one hand it has announced to establish “National Sports Education Board” and on the other the Government has announced to focus on imparting new-age skills in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, 3-D Printing and other technologies.

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“Union Budget 2019-20 has the potential to catapult Indian Education arena to the global platform and technology will be a key enabler. It will help create a positive ecosystem for Education Tourism in India.Delighted to see new age Industry Skills like IoT, VR, AI, ML finding its long overdue notice. While I see some institutes trying hard to make a difference, support from government will help standardise curriculum. Setting up of National Sports Education Board (under Khelo India scheme) and National Research Foundation shows positive intent to diversify education beyond academics.

“The roadmap drawn by Finance Minister in the Union Budget augurs really well for the education sector. The vision statement of “Study in India” to bring foreign students in India along with 3-fold increase in allocation for world-class higher education, i.e. Rs 400 crore, is a move towards making India an education hub. Announcement of bringing New Education Policy which proposes major changes in both school and higher education among others is a commendable step towards a uniform and improved education system.

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Rakesh Dubey Chief Executive Officer SV Creditline Ltd

RakeshforDubey “The Budget announcement the Indian startups by the Chief Executive Officer, SV Creditline Ltd Government of India is a sign of relief for all the entrepreneurs’ across the country. One important step of not scrutinizing the startups and investors who have filed the returns has provided a major respite to the startup community. To add to this, it has relieved the startup community from the tax issues, as returns of startups will not be subject to any scrutiny from the Income Tax department. More than half of the startups have received Angel tax notices. In this world of technology, it is indeed an interesting step by the Government of India to air a channel under Doordarshan bouquet only for start-ups. This channel managed by the startups will broadcast programs aimed at inspiring start-ups across the country. It will be a great help to the entrepreneurs.

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Shweta Sastri Managing Director, Canadian International School, Bengaluru

“The Government proposed a range of major changes for India’s education system in the Budget and laid emphasis on the importance of not only providing literacy but improving the quality of education. The decision to set up a National Research Foundation to fund and coordinate research in India is welcome. The plan of the Government to launch ‘Study in India’ programme is meant to make India an attractive education destination for international students. The allotment of 400-cr to develop world class institutions is to be highly appreciated.

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“It is laudable that the FM in her maiden budget has called out the need for equipping our youth in new-age automation skills such as AI, Robotics, and Big Data. This is a tacit acknowledgement that the world is changing rapidly and our nation’s skill development initiatives need of a major overhaul. It is an acceptance of the new global normal where high-end skills command a premium, and lowend skills trade at a discount.

To put our demographic abundance to good use, to be an enviable workforce of the world, to create and sustain high wages, and to secure future proof careers for our youth, premium skills steeped in disruptive technologies are the way forward. As waves of automation and innovation sweep through developed and developing economies, destroying old jobs and replacing them with new ones, our education and skill development ecosystems must reinvent their purpose, so that our youth may emerge as winners.”

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Prodyut Bora CEO, Bonphul Air Products Pvt Ltd

“Union Budget 2019-20 contains no major reforms for the start-up ecosystem. The budget speech didn’t quite cover any major reform directly related to start-up ecosystem. The budget lacked a few expected measures. We were hoping to see a positive action on the issue of Angel Tax which is a major concern and maybe there is some relief there.

The budget 2019 stated that start-ups in India are taking firm root and to resolve the angel tax issue, returns will not be subject to any scrutiny from the Income Tax department. Also start-ups and investors who file requisite declarations will not be subjected to any kind of scrutiny in respect of valuation of share premium.

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“The industry was expecting that the import duty on gold will be reduced but on the contrary it has been increased. This will have a damping effect on the entire Gems and Jewellery industry. The jewellery sales to tourists will also suffer because of high-cost.

Numerous majors have taken to enable MSE & MSME tap the organised market. The will help the industry to grow and enable new startups to make their presence felt.

The reduction of corporate tax from 30% to 25% will improve the plough back of profits and give the small and medium enterprises an opportunity to use their own resources to fund their growth.”

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A teacher by heart with a quest of excellence in mind and education as a mission of life, Dr. Madhu Chitkara is the ViceChancellor of Chitkara University, Punjab, Pro-Chancellor of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, Chairperson of Chitkara International School, and Co-Founder of Chitkara Educational Trust. Having actively contributed to the tremendous growth and recognition of the university throughout all these years, Dr Madhu Chitkara is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to spreading the light of education in the life of tens of thousands of students.

With a passion for academics and great business acumen, she has had a diversified career and variegated experience in the field of education spanning over 43 years. Today, she is one of the few women Vice Chancellors throughout Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, who is a strategic leader, highly knowledgeable, focused and has a passion for excellence.

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Stepping to leadership skills, Chitkara’s fervent input in the direction of generating employment stretches to more than 30,000 students out of which more than 1,000 students are amongsttop positions such as CEO/COO/CTO of various MNCs in India and abroad. Dr. Madhu gladly says, “Till date Chitkara has produced around 30,000 graduates who have been successful at various walks of life and are very well settled across the globe. Pranav Arya (ME Batch 2002) is a pilot for the President of India and Shivum of CSE Batch 2003 is a MiG Fighter Pilot; Amandeep Singh Sidhu (ME Batch 2002) is 2nd Lead at Amazon in California; Ushank Khanna (CSE Batch 2003) is working in the New York Stock Exchange while Nitin Bali (CSE Batch 2003) is working in GOOGLE and JaiveerBawa (Batch 2009 CSPA) is working with CENTRUS and is a visionary architect and project manager for the Parliament Hill Rehabilitation project which is currently the world’s largest rehabilitation and heritage restoration project ever undertaken.”

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The 11th edition of the conclave was inaugurated by Dr Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj, State Nodal Officer, Innovations & Skill Development Programmes, Department of College Education, Government of Rajasthan in the presence of Suraj Sapra, Chief Strategy Officer, NoPaperForms, and Dr Dhaval Mody, Director, RoundGlass College Wellbeing.

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The day-long summit witnessed panel and discussions on various topics related to higher education such as: Changing Dynamics of Higher Education in a Globalised Context: Envisioning Strategies for Future; Role of Technology in Enrolments: A Marketing Perspective; among others.

During the 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Pune, over 50 institutes were felicitated from across the Western region of country.

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

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“I don’t see God in temples, God is within you. If you develop good qualities, good habits and character you are bound to succeed. It is important to plan what you want to do in life and be dedicated for that all the time.

Whatever you do if you do with planning you are going to succeed. Ego is bad for living a happy life and a person without ego enjoys the life most. If you do anything dedicatedly, joyfully, and without any self consideration, every action is close to God. The relation of conscious mind and subconscious mind is like land and farmer.

Land will never guide you what to sow, you will have to select the seed, plant it on the pasture. Whatever you plant, it will grow.

Nothing happens accidentally. George Washington was a peon. While ringing the bell he used to go in trance and say I want to be the president of USA. At the age of 27, he became a senate member and at the age of 52, he became the Governor of a State. At the age of 62 he became the President of America. All the time he was chanting, I wanted to become the President of America.”

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“The four areas Rajasthan Government focussing on to ensure qulity higher education are: Quality, Delivery, Faculty and Employability.

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.”

“Whenever we hear our National Anthem, it gives us a different kind of motivation to do a different thing. This belief/ideology of adoption to change or willingness to change should always be there. Looking at the West, the way they have adopted the technology in education is significant. It is very important for all of the institutions to teach their students that the change is the only constant and they must be adoptive to changes.”

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“Placements have 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.”

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“The world is heading towards Industry 4.0 and the amount of metamorphosis the world is going to see is enormous. One million jobs are going to be displaced; one million people are going to be displaced. New jobs are going to come. It is considered that around 600 different types of jobs will be introduced. So, how our education system will be in sync with that changed world? No one knows the kind of jobs likely to be available in the future.”

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Regular evaluations will help the curriculum to remain relevant as per the latest trends and industry demands.”

Dr Chandrani Singh

Dean VIT University, Bhopal

Director - MCA Sinhgad Institute of Management, Pune

“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.”

Globally, around 600 million students are likely to get enrolled every year by 2040 with China as the biggest contributor followed by North America, Europe, United States, and Africa. As far as African countries are concerned, they are likely to contribute 22 million students every year by 2020. Indian Government’s rigorous initiatives to promote tertiary education across various regions of the country have supported the public and private sector to rethink about infrastructure and quality assurance framework for betterment of education sector.

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Director MITCON Institute of Management, Pune “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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ISMR is an emerging and most promising business school in Pune and India as well.

I believe that certain underlying principles are the core of ISMR which will ensure its continuing pole position. In an endeavor to educate leaders of tomorrow, we draw upon reserves of goodwill among the diaspora of our alumni, network among recruiters and potential students and we proudly flaunt the commitment of our faculty and staff.

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Director – Academics Jayawant Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Pune “The association of industry and academia will help the institution to work on real life problems. To find solution to any of the problem, it will be important for the institutions to apply relevant knowledge. It will not only help students to gain hands on experience rather it will also help the institutes to become knowledge hub for a particular sector. Moreover for industries, they need not to spend huge amounts on Research and Development rather they just need to help institutions in carrying out the problem specific researches.”

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Human Resource professional plays a very important role when it comes to academia and supply chain of work force. It is very important to understand the role of HR professional in bridging the gap between industry and academia. Along with this, it is also needed to be found out that how technology may help HR professionals and academicians in promoting the employability among students.

“There is no certain definition of employability.

It actually is defined as per the job role in any industry. So, it is very important to what we actually mean with the term employability.

Employability basically means the ability to get your first job and keep on being employable as one advances in his/her professional life.”

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“It is important for training & placement officers in the college to find out that the students are spiritually smart or not. Most of the colleges do not focus on spiritually developed students.

Students are more curious towards the remunerations rather than the nature they are being offered.”

Most of the freshers nowadays are joining an organisation with a proposition or a purpose.

If the organisation serves that proposition or purpose well, then the person continues otherwise they start looking for a job in any other organisation. Moreover, salary becomes secondary if the purpose is served.

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“People from the industry can add a great value to academia. But somewhere, still I feel that there is a lot of gap between industry and academia. Sometimes people from academia feel that the industry people don’t have time to dedicate for the improvement in education sector. It is not true. We are committed to give back our learnings from industry to academia.”

“Every weekend, we have a hiring drive where we witness a footfall of 400-500 job seekers.

Out of them, I am able to select only 5-10 people that clearly explains the huge gap. It is not that the students are not equipped rather they are lacking in the skills required by the industry. So, students are needed to be trained in the skills needed by the industry along with academics.”

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PRASAD KULKARNI

Director-Corporate Relations ASM Group of Institutes

Vice President of Global HR Operations Accelya Group

“Students join an institute with lot of passion and aspirations. If the institutes are able to catch that passion quotient of the students, we are able to imbibe industry relevant skills among them. As now the communication mediums are so good due to social media and internet, we can also nurture the quality of developing Human Relations among the students.”

“In any organisations, we have different generations as employees and the technology is the only thing that connects all these generations with each other. But it is very important that how the technology is being implemented as per the generation-specific needs. The technological tools must be customised as per the needs of users and purpose.”

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Other speakers from the top school education institutes deliberated on latest technological innovations in education, best practices followed in their institutes and future strategies to further the cause of education as well as the holistic development of children.

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“One of the biggest struggles that we have experienced at Billimoria is bringing in technology.

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“Adobe is all about creativity. Creativity plays a very critical component in the overall learning process for various standards. Adobe is playing a key role in launching a program for schools titled – ‘Udaan’. For this, we have introduced lot of tools for students and educators to learn various methods of creativity. Besides, we have also come up with Adobe Exchange Program, which aims to Territory Account Manager ignite creativity (Digital Media), Adobe in classrooms and connecting with educators from other countries.”

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“There are two different types of education – one which teaches you how to make a living and the other which teaches you how to live. Today, as a society, the way we are structuring our lives and the way our children’s lives are being structured by default, you just don’t have any unstructured learning time for them. At Bassett, the certificate that we provide is not just course it is put together with CEO, Bassett Education the best material, India- Be & Become- A Life very non theoretical Skills Learning Solution and from the best communication programs in the world.”

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Panel Discussion: Technology in Education: Facilitating Collaborative Learning in Schools

Panelists (L-R): Dr Asawari Bhave Gudipudi, Dean, MIT ADT University, Pune; B Anantha Krishnan, Head Operations, Kalorex Group; Payam Shoghi, Principal, Riverdale International School, Pune; Abha Meghe, Director, Meghe Group of Schools, Nagpur; Lata Rawat, Director, Cambridge Court Group of Schools, Jaipur; Satwant Palekar, Regional School Director (West India), Zee Learn Limited; Sudhir Kukreja, Director/Co-Founder,Credence International School, Mumbai

Panel Discussion: Redefining Assessments in School Education

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Panelists (L-R): Seema Sabhlok, Principal, Bunts Sangha’s S M Shetty High School & Jr College, Mumbai; Dr Sudhir D Hadke, Principal, Riverdale High School, Aurangabad; Neelam Bhardwaj, Principal, Sanskar School, Jaipur; Revathi Srinivasan, Director/Principal, Smt Sulochana Devi Singhania School, Mumbai; Sudha Sanbhag, Principal, Children’s Academy, Malad, Mumbai; Gayatri Sundaram, Content Head, KidZania India; Aditi Goradia, Managing Director, Billimoria High School, Panchgani; Gursimran Kaur, Principal, The Lexicon International School, Wagholi, Pune; Gurdeep Kaur, Principal, Shri Harshad C Valia International School, Mumbai

Panelists (L-R): Panelists (L to R): Kavita Hegde, Principal, Seven Square Academy, Thane, Mumbai; Madhu Maini, Principal, Jayshree Periwal High School, Jaipur; Robbin Ghosh, President, Victorious Kidss Educares, Pune; Seema Negi, Principal, Sanjeevani World School, Mumbai; Harshita Sharma, Director, Brainstorm and International Territory Head -ECA, Pune; Dr Jayashree Nair, Deputy Head-Academics, Futuristic Edu Initiatives, Hyderabad; Praneet Mungali, Chairman, Sanskriti Group of School, Pune; Ritu Dubey, Vice Principal, C P Goenka International School, Juhu, Mumbai; Rashmi P Singh, Principal, Poddar Brio International School, Badlapur, Mumbai

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‘Bringing in technology for teachers is the biggest struggle’

Aditi Goradia

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ne of the biggest struggles that we have experienced at Billimoria is bringing in technology. May be a lot of school leaders will connect to that. Bringing in technology to teachers who have been doing things their own way for the last 15, 20 or 30 years is difficult. It’s difficult for them to keep up. We have to relate. We have to respect it. They want too. It’s not that they are challenging us,” said Aditi Goradia, Managing Director, Billimoria High School, Panchgani.”

She was speaking at the inaugural session of 12th School Leadership Summit, Pune, which was held in May 2019. Along with her, other eminent personalities from the education industry also graced the inauguration ceremony.

Further, explaining her context on struggle around making teachers comfortable with technology, she said, “It’s like my classroom suddenly changes into smart board. But I am comfortable with chalk-and-talk method and also my students were doing well in the board exams. But it’s not about the boards anymore or exams, it’s about the world. The world has become such a small place that our kids need encouragement. They need our support and technology is a great way to do it.”

Sharing her experience with teachers at Billimoria, Goradia said, “One thing that I tell my teachers at Billimoria is to take five days

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She also elaborated how the use of technology can make the lives easier and teaching a fun activity. “Technology is making our lives much easier as teaching a lesson from book, then on blackboard, then in smart class, then in AV room and then taking students outside ensure that they retain maximum of it at a faster pace. It also helps students to be inquisitive and ask 10 super challenging questions that even after being a teacher you don’t know how to answer them. However, when you figure out the answers, teaching becomes more fun than before,” she said.

Goradia also expressed her gratitude towards Elets Technomedia for providing a great platform – School Leadership Summit, for collaborating with schools across the country.

“Thank you so much for this platform for us to get together. We are collaborating because we have a common goal – quality education for our children. So be it STEM, technology or school management software, they will really help. We are getting there, there’s still a lot of confusion and there’s lot of challenges on how to on board things, what will work and what will not because everybody’s team is different. We are getting there and it is always going to be great for our children,” she concluded

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‘Purpose of higher education is to impart knowledge’

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“As per the regulatory bodies, the education must help a person in finding out a problem, analysing it, apply knowledge and latest tools available and finding out a solution to the problem. To achieve the aforesaid, we need to transform our classrooms and teachinglearning practices,” he added.

Dr Kharat was among the key speakers at the 11th Higher Education and human Resource Conclave held at Pune. He shared various valuable thoughts that may help improve the Indian higher education sector and make youth skillful.

He also suggested that solving a problem must help the environment and society along with inculcating some necessary skills among students. According to him, “One must also consider environment, society and ethics while solving a problem. We must also focus on inculcating skills like teamwork and leadership. Another very important skill which is needed among students is communication.”

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“Use of digital learning will transform teachers into mentors and help the students attain something new. Every institution will become a part of the industry that will help in generating ideas,” he added.

Describing about how the association of industry and institute will benefit the both, Dr Kharat said, “The association of the two will help the institution to work on real life problems.

To find solution to any of the problem, it will be important for the institutions to apply relevant knowledge. It will not only help students to gain hands on experience rather it will also help the institutes to become knowledge hub for a particular sector.

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