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Shaping the Preschool Segment for the Future of Tomorrow Preschools have turned a new charm in the towns. The growing understanding about preschools’ key role in creating the foundation for the child’s all-round development, fostering positive values, good habits and value based behaviour at an early age, holds a great substance today.

This has also surged interest in exploring and understanding this little known world of preschools shaped up for the tiny tots.

With innumerable preschools spreading in every corner of the country, it is nothing less than a herculean task to differentiate one from another based on just the pretence.

This month’s special issue on Preschool Ranking, we have tried to highlight how much significance preschools have acquired in the recent times. Today, preschools hold a distinct place of its own and are aspiring to be on the global map of achievements. digitalLEARNING magazine in its latest issue, has also tried to touch upon various dimension of the preschool ecosystem, demystifying the little known factors of understanding these little temples of learning and industry at large.

Our cover story “Draft National Education Policy: Here’s what Top Educationist Think” touches upon one of the most talked about topics discussed vividly during the 14th World Education Summit, New Delhi, 2019, with top educationists calling for liberal policies for private schools, continuous teacher training programs, focus on early childhood education, making students industry-ready.

Alongside this, we also have a special feature on “Essence of AI for an Interactive Learning Experience”, which underlines the importance of Artificial Intelligence in helping to create educational tools that automate the teaching process but also improving other fields such as administration, learning, tutoring and assessments.

Our latest issue also carries the 14th World Education Summit report. 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 this summit held in Delhi.

With a host of interviews, articles by preschool industry leaders, and special features, we hope our latest endeavour would evoke an invaluable feedback of our esteemed readers.

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Draft National Education Policy: Here’s what Top Educationists Think Draft National Education Policy (NEP) was one of the hottest topics discussed vividly during the 14th World Education Summit, New Delhi, 2019, with top educationists calling for liberal policies for private schools, continuous teacher training programs, focus on early childhood education, making students industryready, improving curriculum, addressing structural issues of education and much more. Here’s a detailed report by Rumani Arora of Elets News Network (ENN), highlighting the opinion of top educationists.

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he Government of India is all set to release the National Educational Policy (NEP) to address the changing dynamics of the population’s requirements with regards to quality education, innovation and research.

The aim is to make India a knowledge superpower (Vishwa Guru) by equipping the students with the necessary skills and knowledge and to eliminate the shortage of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry.

A committee headed by Dr K. Kasturirangan submitted the Draft National Education Policy to the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State for HRD, Shri Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre in May earlier this year.

For this, the MHRD had initiated an unprecedented collaborative, multi-stakeholder, multi-pronged, bottom-up people-centric, inclusive and participatory consultation process.

Since the government has invited suggestions from the education fraternity for the National, Elets Technomedia, the premier technology and media research organisation of Asia and the Middle East, in association with digitalLEARNING Magazine, presented an open platform – World Education Summit— for the educationists to put forward their ideas, views

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and suggestions with regards to the Draft National Education Policy.

The 14th edition of World Education Summit – India’s Biggest Summit on Innovation in Education, witnessed the congregation of top educationists from India and across the world deliberating on latest technologies, innovative teaching-learning practices and figure out a variety of emerging opportunities in the education landscape at present and in future.

Here’s a comprehensive report on what the top educationists have to say about the ‘Draft National Education Policy’:

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Raghav Podar, Chairman, Podar Education The New Education Policy is a step in the right direction. There are a lot of well-intentioned, well-meaning clauses and thoughtful additions in the school education. Though there are some drawbacks and there are certain things that need to be reconsidered in terms of

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especially at who the NEP is targeted at.

India is such a diverse country; we have schools ranging from – socio-economic strata, demography, cultural differences, state-wide differences, language differences. It is difficult for one Education Policy to cater to the needs of all.

I would have appreciated if the members on New Education Policy had someone on board who’s actually inside a school day in day out, somebody who knows how things work on the ground; rather than very eminent personalities who don’t have the experience of running the schools.

Anirudh Gupta, CEO, DCM Group of Schools The government needs to be very careful while drafting the new education policy and must ponder if we are over-regulating the private school segment or taking the progressive step towards making the players contribute their heart and soul in the making of new India.

There are some very interesting and important takeaways and thoughtful suggestions and policies which the government has formulated. However, there are certain aspects which, as a stakeholder, I believe will be counterproductive in the long run.

The government needs to come up with a clear policy (whether they allow the schools to run for profit or not) and clear environment, as people are investing a lot of money in technology and innovative products at present. We need to have an environment where people are excited about doing quality work in education, energized to open new schools; thrilled to bring new technology.

Reekrit Serai, Managing Director, Satluj Group of Schools Running a school nowadays is like running a jail, or even worse in some cases. It is very stressful in certain places and people in the management side would relate to it. Owing to the regulatory framework and, local bodies, most of our time goes in filling forms and taking NOC’s that our main motive ‘quality of education’ is not getting the desired education.

World Education Summit is a great platform to talk about the issues related o running of schools, but how do we get out of it? Do we form a common voice? Do we talk about these things

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here and then forget about it? Do we want to be regulated to a certain extent or do we want less regulation or do we want more even? We need to come to a point of consensus and we should leave this venue with some sort of action planning in mind Roshan Gandhi, Director of Strategy, City Montessori School The New Education Policy (NEP) would have implications on all schools, including CMS. Though it has certain things which are stepping in the right direction and when it comes to the overall regulatory framework, it does make one big step in the right direction.

Because, previously the government used to provide the education, fund the education and regulate the education; which means there was no real accountability in the system.

Now it has separated those functions, which hopefully will lead to a new level of accountability.

The rest of the policy paints a great vision of what quality education can look like. But the question is how relevant it is going to be for the majority of schools on the ground level.

One academic put it as – “Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic” – which means the ship is already sinking but they are making changes on the surface level because, it fails to address and underline the structural issues, which are faced by the education sector, today. A good policy would be the one which opens a regulatory framework to help private schools flourish, and that’s a missed opportunity in the current NEP. Kanak Gupta, Director, Seth MR Jaipuria Schools With regards to the new education policy, I believe practitioners should have been involved in the committee who designed the framework.

Besides, theoretically we talk about ‘one nation, one policy’ but is it practically possible to implement it in a country such as India, which changes in every 50-100 kilometres?

We need to come together as educationists in the true sense and exchange ideas, thoughts and processes. Every school has a unique character and working model, however, processes can be replicated across the segment.

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Dr S K Rathor, Chairman & Managing Director, Sanfort Group of Schools In Delhi/NCR, we are facing a lot of problems with the regulatory framework. The departments are not in sync which is making the case even more difficult for us. Moreover, with the population explosion, there is no space left with the government to allot for the opening of new preschools.

In my opinion, the central government should intervene and direct all the state governments to frame policies regarding the opening of preschools, because it is the need of the hour. We all have nuclear families today, which make the presence of preschools even more important.

Talking about the K12 sector, it comes with another set of policy hindrances. We cannot increase the fees every year but the expenses are rising; plus there are certain obligations that we need to fulfil when it comes to giving admissions to children of eminent personalities.

We should collectively raise or voices so that it reaches to the Government of India and necessary actions.

Dr Chandrashekar DP, CEO - Jain Group of Institutions, JGI Schools We all want a robust policy and something constructive that

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we are excited and happy to implement at ground level. But if we will not raise our voices when it is heard; we will never get what we want. Government is asking for suggestions regarding the new education policy but the no-participation from schools has forced them to extend the deadline. It has happened twice.

1.5 million Schools exist in India but only 68000 recommendations have reached to the drafting committee so far. We need to talk, participate and make our opinion count.

The new education policy is very good in terms of futuristic thinking, adapting things from across the world but it’s only a general framework. It is like saying “choose any colour car as long as it is black”.

Liberty should be given to schools to choose their board and make them participate in the process of progress.

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Having 630 schools across India with 30,000 children, we have been facing a lot of hindrances with the policy frameworks.

Different states in India are following different policies, which makes it difficult to function.

However, in the last 2-3 years, early childhood education has received due attention. Early Childhood Association (ECA) has got one of the world’s best curriculums designed by NCERT, which led us to follow that. But when we talk about a basic policy for early childhood education, it should be the same across India, no matter, if we talk about curriculum framework or safety framework.

NEP should focus on the quality of education and the basic rules & regulations but it should not make the functioning of preschools so hard that people refrain from investing time & money in the segment. Bangalore is the only city in the country to develop a model which has some set norms when it comes running and operations of preschools.

K Dilip, Principal, CMCL School, Lumshnong, Meghalaya There are certain aspects in the Draft New Education Policy which should be reconsidered.

I have three observations, 1. Define the nomenclature for public and private: the definition given in the policy is very tricky as of now, 2. Clarity on language policy: the current NEP doesn’t specify the number of additional languages requisite for higher secondary and senior secondary. 3.

Formalising of pre-primary: Children should be developed first and should learn naturally by playing and enjoying, the formal education must start after 5-6 years of age.

I congratulate all the educators, ministry and the government who have worked hard and dared to come up with the new education policy.

C V Singh, Principal, Rawal International School, Faridabad, Haryana I am against the inclusion of parents, councillors, sarpanch, students and alumni etc in the School Management Committee (SMC), as suggested in the draft new education policy. As it will hamper the smooth functioning of schools and make it a ground

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for political debate and not a temple of learning.

Secondly, I strongly recommend that there should be a separate school for Class Nursery to Class 2, considering their teaching-learning practices are different from the other classes. Plus it is not safe to keep a 3-year-old child with an 18-year-old grown up in today’s environment. Thirdly, I recommend the inclusion of vocational education in schools. It should be made mandatory especially for students who aren’t performing well in Class 10, allowing them to learn and earn.

Dr Haleema Sadia, Principal, Delhi Private School, Ajman, UAE The new education policy has addressed some of the longawaited things in the field of education. One thing that our curriculum lacks is that it is academically centred. In the new education policy, cocurricular and extracurricular activities have been emphasized and most importantly, they will not be treated separately but as part of the overall development of a child. The second good thing is the focus on teacher training program The government aims to make every child literate and educated but my concern is for the students who are studying just for the sake of it and can’t even write their names. So there must be a provision to make sure that the students can learn minimum skills and not just boast with the degrees in hand.

Dr Pranavi Luthra, Principal, MRV International School, New Delhi The education that we are imparting today has no relevance when it comes to individual development, social development, or national development. We are failing as a nation to develop human resource. If learning was happy and joyful, students would have been happily coming to schools and not committing suicide.

In this scenario, an absolute restructuring of education is required. The policies need to change and the consideration should be what outcome we are looking for and not what the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is.

The SOP is already their basis on which school functions; but we need to go in the roots and figure out that in which way an individual can be transformed into a useful and purposeful citizen.

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Surbhi Arora, Saint Bachanpuri International School, Chandigarh There is a big gap in our education system which is resulting in one student committing suicide every hour. As per the statistics, 75,000 students have committed suicide in the last few years, which is a staggering figure to ignore. Besides, we cannot ignore the fact that almost 2000 students have dropped out of IIT, the biggest institute of India, in the last two years.

When we talk about new education policy we are not talking about – how to bridge that gap, how to educate our students towards career and how to develop education in them. Until and unless students are made aware of the career choices available, how they will be able to make a choice. At present they only know about six subjects which are taught in the class, however, these six subjects cannot determine a person’s career and scope in life.

higher education Dr Vikas Singh, Executive Director, ITS The Education Group The New Education Policy was anticipated is going to be saffron in colour. But when the draft came out, all the apprehension was put to rest. It is a very forward-looking policy which is going to strengthen not only school education but higher education as well.

The first interesting thing about NEP that I noticed was -Dr Kasturirangan, the Chairman, saying that Ministry of Higher Education should be renamed as Ministry of Education, this way the focus would be primarily on education. As with ‘higher education’- the focus will deviate to training HRs. Another interesting thing is that we are going to do away with the system of affiliations. And the focus will be on three kinds of institutions: teaching universities, research universities and degree awarding institutes.

Ajay Prakash Shrivastava, Chancellor, Maharishi University of Information, Technology, Lucknow, UP There are certain things on which the new Education policy is lacking. Firstly, there is no specific provision to cater to the stress and pressure that student and teachers go through in

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Dr J Janet, Principal, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu With regards to reforms introduced for higher education in the New Education Policy, there are two welcome changes.

One is – how we are preparing the students to have the right skill set to face the future with confidence; Second is- how adept are the faculty in giving the effective teaching-learning process to students and making them industry ready, which is a challenging issue as far as engineering education is concerned.

The components of NEP just highlighted in the draft that how we equip the teachers, how do we build the right skill sets to the students.

We at Krishna institute have gone away with chalk and talk method and have only smart classrooms. We are following the peer learning concept with My Google; quizzes, assignments and assessment are all done online. In short, it’s blended learning with the flipped classroom model. We encourage MOOCS, mandatory internships to make students understand the requirements of the industry.

H S Rawat, Group Head, HRIT, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Any new policy which is introduced should be resultoriented, and the same goes for

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the New Education Policy. It should set some short term and long term goals to make sure where we are heading and where we want to reach.

With regards to education, we must follow the ASK model – first attitude/character building; then skill development and finally knowledge. Previously, it was KSA (Knowledge, Skill and Attitude) but nowadays the biggest problem is ‘attitude’.

Rahul Noel Ambati, Academic Director, Vidya Degree College, Palamuru University, Telangana New Education Policy, at the beginning of higher education segment, mentions about ‘liberal arts’ which might present a solution to ease the stress & pressure being built inside the students. The Higher Education Institutions in India is majorly towards technical education, i.e., focusing on ‘STEM’ (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). And then we start pressuring our students to adapt to the learning style. The NEP talks about introducing humanity subjects (like psychology, practising yoga) that will provide some relief to the students.

With regards to overcoming the faculty problem in higher education, my suggestion is that we must invite experts from the industry in our institutions as teachers. It will not only ensure the availability of adequate faculty but also help students in understanding the industry perspective.

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their teaching career.

In our suggestions submitted on NEP: We have mentioned two things that we are emphasising on – 1.

How to release the pressure of teachers and students: Being an institute with a spiritual background, we have included yoga in our curriculum. 2.

Continuous Teacher Education: There should continuous teacher education field just like the medical field where doctors need to attend seminars, lectures and conferences.

In the wake of new technologies and innovations coming up, there is an urgent need for a dedicated teacher education program that can help them upgrade their knowledge and enhance skill set.

Amritha Basanth, Director, UKF College of Engineering & Technology, Kollam The New Education Policy comprises of very idealistic points which if implemented in the right way can make India a knowledge superpower, within a decade.

The draft NEP emphasizes on quality and real-time research, something which is lacking as of now. But, if put into practice, India will undoubtedly stand ahead of other countries in this segment.

Besides, the introduction of liberal arts in professional education is going to bring a big change in the way students are pursuing it at present. Studying an interesting and hobby-based subject will definitely make them productive in regular academic subjects.NEP talks more about autonomy and categorisation of the institutes, but it should bring more clarity on how to fix the syllabus or curriculum of higher education, especially higher education.

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Artificial Intelligence: Enhancing the Learning Experience for a Better Future With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, education is becoming more accessible and inclusive at the same time and AI in education can be felt, with traditional methods changing drastically, writes Reetika Bose of Elets News Network (ENN)

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n the 21st century, it is technology that is ruling the world.

With increasing adoption of technology in almost every sphere of life, it is now a part of our normal lives. We are surrounded by this emerging technology in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has already begun to alter education tools and institutions and changing what the future might look like in education.

The academic world is becoming more convenient and personalized, all thanks to the numerous applications of AI for education. This has changed the way people learn since educational materials are becoming accessible to all through smart devices and computers. AI is also allowing the automation of administrative tasks, allowing institutions to minimise the time required to complete difficult tasks so that the educators can spend more time with students.

Highlighting the essence of Artificial Intelligence in education, Yashendra Mishra, Regional Manager- North, Global Channel Resources said, “Artificial Intelligence in Education is the need

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of the hour as it helps in multiple ways to identify specific needs of different type of learners within the classroom and helps them engage at different levels. Especially in case of solitary learner, its plays a vital role in understanding between the words.�

Changing the role of teachers Due to the new technological rage, there will always be a role for teachers in education, but what that role is and what it entails may change due to new technology in the form of intelligent computing systems. As already mentioned, AI taking over tasks like grading can help students improve learning, and may even be a substitute for real-world tutoring. Presently, it is becoming an emerging tool, helping students to ask questions and find information or could even potentially take the place of teachers for very basic course materials.

In most cases, however, AI will shift the role of a teacher to that of a facilitator.

Teachers will supplement AI lessons, assist students who are struggling, and provide human interaction and hands-on experiences

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for students. In many ways, technology is already driving some of these changes in the classroom, especially in schools that are online or embrace the flipped classroom model.

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Artificial Intelligence is changing the education delivery models in a much profound way, with prominent & effective cases like Personalized Learning, providing realtime & pointed feedback on areas of strengths or improvements to students, ensuring their long term success.

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With Artificial Intelligence, education can become more accessible and inclusive at the same time.

Various tutoring programmes, learning applications with skill-based curriculum are being developed across the globe. These AI enabled systems will bring global classrooms at your fingertips. It will not only empower students but also teachers in upgrading themselves with current trends. Such systems could be a boon for the rural education. Students living in the most remote parts of India would be able to learn the way it is learned in an urban setting key school districts within states as weWith accessibility comes inclusivity and this has made the education sector evolve from the typically structured private sector to new innovations seeping into ll.

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Artificial Intelligence is changing the education delivery models in a much profound way, with prominent & effective use cases like personalised learning, providing real-time & pointed feedback on areas of strengths or improvements to students, ensuring their long term success.

Shedding light on the technological advancements that led to the change in the learning process, Vaibhav Srivastava, Head of Business Development (Education), Cisco India & SAARC said, “Adaptive Learning changes how information is accessed on the basis of location, demography or previous patterns helping students learn as per their needs. Artificial Intelligence enhances faculty & admin productivity by automating everyday mundane tasks, giving back additional time to them during the same working hours. AI is no more optional or a technology of the future, it is now & here.”

Having said that, the experience of personalized learning, the growing numbers of adaptive learning platforms, games and software is astonishing. These systems respond to the needs of the student, putting greater emphasis on certain topics, repeating things that students haven’t mastered, and generally helping students to work at their own pace. Adaptive learning has already had a huge impact on education across the nation and as AI advances in the coming decades, adaptive programs like these will likely to improve and expand.

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education materials that can leave students confused about certain fundamentals”, said Dr. R.D Patidar, Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal University, Raigarh

Artificial Intelligence can be used to find gaps in the learnings of the student and provide real-time solutions.

The technology can also identify areas where teachers are outnumbered by students and create optimized learning programs that can impact a large number of students. The Indian education system has always struggled with an inadequate method of teaching.

Standardized tests have often revealed that students struggle to perform at the level they should be.

Sharing insights on how Artificial Intelligence has made life easy, not just for teachers and students alone but for learning platforms, Gaurav Kumar, Vice President & Head of Strategy- Special Initiative, Reliance JIO said, “With the best times for ICT penetration and a devout large society aspiring for better life style using education as the ladder- the timing couldn’t be better.

Whether we do it or a Musk variety comes as savior for our problems- its inevitable. The data penetration has made life easy for many internet ventures- guess it’s time someone takes a serious bet on education and starts towards working on developing a genuine AI driven learning platform.”

Not only AI helps in improving quality of teaching by offering an experiential and immersive experience but also aided in understanding the topics. The rapid enhancement in technology, as well as the higher rate of adoption are bound to have a positive impact on the students. With a two-pronged thrust from the private sector as well as the government, exciting developments await the student of tomorrow..

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Hello Kids: Making Learning a Fun Experience With a vision to make quality education accessible to all children, our journey of 14 years in pre-school education began with a single school and now includes a family of 630+ pre-schools in India and Bangladesh, six of K12 schools and a growth plan expected to cross 1000+ pre-schools by 2020, says Pritam Agrawal, Founder Director, Hello Kids, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

Tell us what are the key strengths of Hello Kids?

Our children are part of a fun-based learning experience. Our curriculum and teaching aides are being constantly upgraded along with stage exposure giving our children confidence early in life.

Parent-teacher interaction is primarily to support the children and for progress towards set goals. Our adult-child ratio is as low as 7:1. Our teaching and non-teaching staff is verified by one of the best agencies in South-East Asia. Most of our centers in Karnataka are recognized by the State Education Department.

We follow Montessori and Harvard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theories in curriculum development.

How does the curriculum at your preschool contribute to the overall learning and development of the children?

We strive to support high quality learning while giving every child the opportunity to reach his or her full potential through a program of learning that is coherent, relevant, and most importantly, age appropriate. We understand that children need to be critically literate in order to synthesize information, make informed decisions, communicate effectively, and thrive in an ever changing global community. The curriculum at our preschool recognizes the need of the learners as diverse and helps all learners develop the knowledge, skills, and perspective they need to become informed, productive, caring, responsible and active citizens in their own communities and in the world.

The Government of Karnataka invited us to be on panel when developing curriculum for the state.

Tell us more about your journey in the preschool fraternity? And what is the key behind your success?

Fulfilling. We started our first pre-school in 2005 at Bangalore and currently have 60+ centers across India and Bangladesh. Within a time span of 2 years, we had 5 pre-schools and were ready to franchise. And now, we have a community of business owners and teachers pan-India who do not pay us any royalty. Our passionate franchisee edupreneurs are trained regularly at our 40 training locations across India. Our directors closely mentor each individual.

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No Royalty franchisee model with quality affordable early childhood education was the key for the success.

What goes into making Hello Kids the most awarded preschool?

Yes. We have been awarded with the Best Pre-school Curriculum, Fastest Growing Pre-school Chain, Innovative Teaching Practices, amongst others.

The people make the brand. Our 630+ passionate edupreneurs are connected to each other online. This provides a platform for our team to share success stories, marketing techniques and updates. Our business owners are part of a community; not competitors, but each other’s strength and support in mutual growth and development.

How does working with various associations help you in contributing to early childhood education industry?

As Vice President of Early Childhood Association, gives me a voice to address the issues in the system and do my bit in regularizing the industry. Being a member of Early Education, UK and NAEYC, USA helps me in bringing home the latest information in early childhood education available globally. This allows me to proudly claim a truly integrated international curriculum.

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OP JINDAL UNIVERSITY, RAIGARH

AN EMERGING UNIVERSITY OF INDIA “Pursuit of knowledge through first-hand experience is the cornerstone of OP Jindal University, Raigarh.We aim to build an institution where students learn by doing, where real world challenges find practical solutions & innovation happens not by chance, but by design.”

Naveen Jindal, Chairman, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd

Many Indian institutes are known for their quality of education and are rightfully regarded as the country’s

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premium institutions for the higher education.

full potential”, says Naveen Jindal, Chairman, Jindal

OP Jindal University takes inspiration from them

Steel and Power Ltd. and Patron of OPJU.

and is committed to play a pivotal role in higher education. Established by an Act of Legislature in

OP Jindal University, Raigarh aspires to educate and

the State Assembly of Chhattisgarh in 2014, OPJU

train the Indian youth to take up the challenges of the

aims at creating new benchmarks and providing

future with capability and confidence. The University

great opportunities to young generation to thrive and

believes that every student has innate potential

prosper; creating individuals who are the best for the

that can be unlocked through quality teaching and

world and not just the best in the world.

mentorship. Renowned academicians across the world are associated with the University and they

“OP Jindal University is the culmination of the dream

replace the fear of ignorance from the minds of

of my father and the founding Chairman of OP Jindal

the students by infusing the joy of learning and by

Group, Shri OP Jindal. For a community that means

encouraging them to questioning.

so much to the success of JSPL, it was our dream

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to start a University in the area as both a way to give

OP Jindal University, known as the University of Steel

back to the region, but more so, a deeply rooted

Technology and Management, brings high quality

commitment to educate the youth of the area, as only

education to its students based on a world class

an educated youth can help the nation develop to its

curriculum, the latest teaching methodology and

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committed faculty members.

Sharing the Vision

B.TECH Study Abroad Programme in Metallurgical

of the University, Dr R. D. Patidar, Officiating Vice-

and Materials Engineering at OP Jindal University

Chancellor, OPJU said, “In a short period of four years

offers an opportunity to the students to get

since we began we have three schools, Engineering,

International exposure. The program is jointly

Management, and Science offering diploma and

initiated by the pioneers in the Steel Industries, Jindal

degree programs with over 1200+ students. Our

Steel and Power Limited, INDIA and Sinosteel, CHINA.

endeavor in the coming years is a relentless pursuit

During this programme the students study two years

of execution. No institution has the commitment,

in OPJU, India and two years in Anhui University of

vision, or execution capabilities like OPJU to deliver on

Technology (AHUT), China. The programme helps the

the vision of becoming India’s First and Only Private

students to inculcate stream based research in the

University catering to the needs of the Indian Steel

area of Process Metallurgy and Physical Metallurgy

Industry. As a multidisciplinary university, OPJU aims

along with innovation aptitude.

at developing young professionals and future leaders who will not only power the growth and development

OPJU’s

in the state, but also make a mark globally.” Recently,

multidisciplinary world-class business education

our University has received two prestigious awards-

to foster academic excellence through industry

‘The Emerging University of India’ and ‘India’s Most

partnerships

Trusted Technical University’, which symbolizes

School offers BBA, MBA and PhD programmes in

that the world is recognizing our resolute towards

Management. The School endeavours to make an

maintaining quality and standard of education and

impact through various programmes, corporate

services that we provide at OPJU.”

education & training, research and consulting.

At the core of the university’s philosophy and

OPJU’s School of Science has laid a balanced

approach lies the belief that students learn best

emphasis on the pursuit of basic knowledge in

when exposed to real world situations and nurtured

science with the challenge of imparting good

through enriching interactions with practitioners

quality science education. The School offers B.Sc.,

and professors. At present University is running

M.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics) and PhD

three schools- School of Engineering, School of

programmes; and focuses on the application of its

Management and School of Science.

research findings for industrial and social benefits

School of Management provides a

and

global

collaborations.

The

which lays emphasis on academic excellence.

OPJU’s School of Engineering, a student-oriented, research-driven school aims to offer an education

OPJU has collaborated with the reputed foreign

that fosters the growth of innovative thinking,

technical universities including University of Colorado

technical excellence, and builds leadership skills. The

USA, Changwan National University South Korea,

School offers a three-year Diploma in Engineering

Texas University, Dallas and Indo US Consortium

and a four-year B. Tech. degree course in Civil,

for Engineering Education. OPJU is striving for

Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgy and Computer

excellence and creating a high bench mark in higher

Science& Engineering branches; a two-year M. Tech

education; and this will be achieved through its

course in Material Science & Technology, Computer

unique vision, experiential learning, research-led

Science & Engineering, Power Plant Engineering &

academic environment

Energy Management and Power Electronics & Power Systems; and PhD in all streams.

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The Numbers Deck: Simplifying Accounting for Non-Accountants If you have ever desired to learn the fundamentals of Accounting in a simple, playful and fun way then ‘The Numbers Deck’ is the ultimate solution to it, says Anish Baheti, Founder, Train My Brain, in a conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

Ever wanted to learn Accounting and Finance in a simple, fun and experiential way? Well, we have got your back with ‘The Numbers Deck’, a deck of 52 cards that is incredibly useful for startups, small business, entrepreneurs and professionals with no previous accounting or financial background. Having said that, it also helps to keep Accounting simple, jargon free, experiential and learn in a short span of time.

The man behind this genius innovation is a Certified Life Coach, A trainer and A Practitioner for Brain Mapping. Born in India, made in Australia, Anish Baheti is a qualified Chartered Accountant in India and an MBA in Accounting & Finance in Australia, As a Founder of Concepts Coach and Train My Brain, Anish has close to two decades, delivered many entertaining, energizing and engaging sessions for students, business owners, women entrepreneurs, sportsperson, professionals & CEOs. When asked about how it all started, Anish Baheti, Founder, TrainMyBrain said, “It all happened when I was helping a friend in Australia with an accounting problem who hailed from an engineering background. As she was struggling to understand, I simplified the problem by sharing a few basic fundamentals of Accounting in a simple yet experiential way. Interestingly, it took less than 7 minutes for her to figure it out.”

“Fast forward 11 years and I have created “Numbers Deck” which continues to simplify Accounting for Non-Accountants”, Baheti said.

What is ‘The Numbers Deck’ All About?

The challenge with learning Accounting especially for people who are from a non-Accounting background has always been how to find a way to keep it simple, jargon free, experiential and learn in a short span of time. Well, Numbers Deck can make learning Accounting a breeze.

If you have ever desired to learn the fundamentals of Accounting in a simple, playful and fun way then this is the ultimate solution to it.

Connecting the Dots Talking about the benefits and who will be benefited, Baheti said, “To begin with, you have to be someone who has never tasted Accounting before. Someone who is terrified seeing Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements will also find this useful as it magically help connect the dots. This will also help if you own a start-up, an entrepreneur or a working

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professional willing to up skill their knowledge about Accounting.

Students who are learning Accounting for the first time will enjoy as they learn and practice transactions in a fun way.”

It is Easy, Fun & Beginner Friendly Underlying the time required for someone new to grasp accounting, Baheti said, “During my workshops, it nearly takes about 90 to 120 minutes for people to understand the fundamentals of Accounting.

The session starts in a unique way, making way for the five elements-how they are linked to each other, demystifying the debits and credits, introducing a unique way to solve any transaction and how each transaction impacts the financial statements.”

Further talking about his workshops, Baheti informed that all the information relating to upcoming workshops in different cities and corporate bookings are available on the Train My Brain website. Also, when it comes to ordering Numbers Deck, it can be ordered separately.

When Baheti is not busy simplifying and inspiring, he enjoys exploring new places, interacting with people from different cultures, sing and dance. At 6’0 and a quarter, he is tall for no reason. He listens more to his heart than his head. He truly believes lesser dancers stumble, better dancers swing. Thankfully, for him, wanderlust syndrome is a glorious thing.

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ESSENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION FOR AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE Artificial Intelligence might inform the students how their career paths look like depending on their goals thus assisting them beyond academics, writes Dr. R.D.Patidar, Vice Chancellor, . Raigarh for Elets OP Jindal University, News Network (ENN) The use of technology within the education system over the last few decades has been astounding.

Technologies like AI, Machine Learning and education software aren’t just changing the field for students, they are shaking up the role of educators, creating philosophical shifts in approaches to teaching and remodelling the classroom. In this new scenario, classes move away from traditional lectures and instead focus on interactive learning, with question and answer sessions, reviews and quizzes, discussions, Virtual labs, and project-based learning. It usually involves customization and personalization, such that educational content is tailored to meet the needs of specific students.

AI enabled Platforms like Coursera, Udacity and BYJU’S etc. have completely changed the Teaching & learning experience of learners and tutors. Its amazing to witness how AI is useful in automating the tedious activities in education like test assessment and gradings. They may not be able to truly replace human grading but they are pretty close of it. Its allowing teachers to focus more on in-class activities and student’s interaction than grading. The experience of personalized learning through growing numbers of adaptive learning platforms, games and software is astonishing. These systems respond to the needs of the student, putting greater emphasis on certain topics, repeating things that students haven’t mastered, and generally helping students to work at their own pace. Adaptive learning has already had a huge impact on education across the nation and as AI advances in the coming decades, adaptive programs like these will likely only improve and expand.

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Apart from support in assessment and personalized learning, AI enabled programs are also helpful in identifying gaps in courses and education materials that can leave students confused about certain fundamentals. Many educational platforms use this for upgrading themselves for better. When a large number of students are found to submit the wrong answer to a homework assignment, the system alerts the teacher and gives future students a customized message that offers hints to the correct answer. This type of system helps to fill in the gaps in explanation that can occur in courses, and helps to ensure that all students are building the same conceptual foundation.

From kindergarten to graduate school education, role of AI at all levels is becoming extremely significant and if some published facts are believed then by 2021 application of AI in education and learning will be increased by 47.5%. The impact of this technology will be felt from the lowest education levels through higher learning institutions. Artificial Intelligence might inform the students how their career paths look like depending on their goals thus assisting them beyond academics. At last what can be said is that only time can tell the ultimate impact of AI in the education industry.

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ROLE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS IN DEVELOPING A HEALTHIER, SAFER AND HYGIENIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Growing number of women in workforce, disintegration of extended or joint family system, and various other such socio, cultural, political, educational shifts over the last three decades in India have intensified the need for a more structured early childhood education system, writes Roopashree Sharma of Elets News Network (ENN).

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he 14th World Education Summit 2019 in New Delhi witnessed Edu-leaders, practitioners, decision makers in the education sector across the world coming together on 9-10 August, 2019 under one premier international platform to discuss innovations and initiatives, collaborate and brainstorm various emerging opportunities in the education landscape in the present times and the future.

“A huge shift is happening, and a resourceful shift wherein the focus is moving beyond teaching A, B, C…1, 2, 3 to more explorative environment, exposure and making learning more experiential for children,” said Sonal Ahuja, Educational Alchemist, Shri Ram Foundation Preschool, who served as the moderator for the panel on the ‘Role of Early Childhood Educators in developing a healthier, safer and hygienic learning environment’ at the summit.

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environment usually revolves around teaching children basic safety habits, POSCO, and cyber security. One of the major concerns raised by Ramananda S, Vice President – Sales, Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd was about something as simple as fire safety. He shared that, “A report in a leading newspaper in India mentions that 39% of the school teachers in Bengaluru city are not trained in fire safety,” he exclaimed.

Children at such an early age require happy and healthy settings which promote indoors and outdoors activities, where they can explore new things, engage in fun activities and learn along the way.

The foundation of their self-esteem, social skills, moral outlook and an overall perception of the world is based on the environment that they are exposed to in these early years. Manjit Legha, Director Academics & Training, Little Millenium Preschool summed up the right environment as one that equals to happy, fun and safe. She emphasised, “EQ before IQ.” The teacher in the classroom is the driving force to maintain the quality of the education in the classroom. To play such a major role,

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ROLE OF EDUCATOR IN FOSTERING A HAPPY, HEALTHY, SAFE AND HYGIENIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENT In a nutshell, we can say a healthy environment is one that fosters the feeling of safety & security in terms of emotional, physical, psychological, and invigorating fun, happiness, enthusiasm, positivity, growth, passion towards learning. Such an environment promotes risk taking, inquisitiveness, and zeal to innovate in the children as well as the educators. However, the game changer question was how our educators working towards fostering such a happy, healthy, safe and hygienic learning environment?

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by teaching the students but also involving the parents so that there is a consistency between what is being taught at the school and at home as well. The teacher is not just to focus on reading and numeracy, but also to provide experiential learning. Quoting the curriculum ‘PEARL’ followed at Jain Cambridge, Sai Kumari said, “For an educator to execute a plan there has to be a robust curriculum. Our curriculum is child centric.”

Demonstration of a certain concept in the form of a collaborative activity is a simple means of teaching yet it has been found that it has far more impact on the mind of the child. Teachers are able to think more outside of the box to involve the children and maximise the level of learning. Sharing a similar example, Mansi of Scottish Early Years delightfully narrated a story about how conducting a fire drill at their campus gave the right exposure to the children at the school towards disaster management which eventually helped a child and her family from an actual fire at their house a week later. She emphasised on not just delivering the curriculum, but making sure the child actually understood how ‘what is being taught’ is to be used.

This is where Sunita Jain of Hello Kids added a very valuable point that we cannot expect for all the kids to learn in the same way the way we are teaching. An early childhood educator should be a felicitator, and flexible to apply, adapt and add on new ways of teaching. Especially as an early childhood educator, one has to give up the traditional ‘teacher’ role and abstain from controlling the outcome of the classroom.

Sharing a similar thought, Preeti Kwatra of Early Childhood Association mentioned that at our schools, we as educators focus on positive reinforcement. She insisted on paying attention on the positives to kill the negatives automatically. Most of the children in such early years are dying for attention. Therefore, looking at negative tantrums of a child gives incentive to other children in the class and promotes a domino effect of negative behaviour. She also stressed enough on giving the child the opportunity to explore, “Instead of letting the cat out of the bag immediately, let the child figure out the process,” she added.

Infusing the energy of a preschool teacher, Manjit Legha of Little Millenium Preschool replicated a fun storytelling act to depict how teachers at her school think outside the box right in the moment using rhymes and fun activities. “We have coined ‘Teachers Excellence Awards’ to keep the preschools teachers motivated, and also have carved a series of joyful parenting sessions for the parents to encourage them to enjoy their child.” she said. Sneha Rathor of Sanfort also mentioned that at Sanfort, for the past two years, they have been conducting orientation programs for parents to explain that helicopter parenting hampers the overall development of the child.

On a concluding note, the framework of early childhood education in India still has a lot of ground to be covered as major challenges stand ahead of it. First foremost the aim is to provide education to all of the nation’s young future of our country especially the disadvantaged stratum of the society. Second on the list is to give the early childhood educators an elevated status with proper remuneration and teacher training facilities. Early childhood education programmes set in the right context can change the future social and economic development trajectory of the nation.

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the teacher is required to have foundational knowledge to understand the psychology of the children and therefore, it should be mandatory for preschool teachers to pursue formal education in early childhood education so that they can create an environment that encourages the child to take risks and promote independence in the child to be able to succeed in the future.

Stating that parents stressing too much on falling and getting hurt or clothes getting dirty in preschools is a hindrance to the growth of child, Sneha Rathor, CEO - Academics & Innovations, Sanfort Group of Schools urged that we as adults, whether as teachers, educators, parents, or management, need to restructure and see what we consider as safe challenge and what we consider as a threat to the child. We need to relabel things as to what is safe and unsafe.

The experiences that a child goes through in his or her early years contribute a lot in their overall development – emotionally, physically, psychologically, socially and these experiences are a precursor to developing the right attitude towards teachers in the later grades and schooling in the later years.

Satnam Sandhu, Founder and Director, Fun Rangers Preschools had a very interesting take on the subject. He referred to the preschoolers as the young future of the country. Quite beautifully, he described, “What we get is a body, very soft & tender, a mind so innocent, and a soul so pure. We need to build them. We need to guide them to a future.” he said.

There are various studies in the early childhood education ecosystem that found that engagement of the child in activities that stimulated his mind around the age of four increased the development of their cognitive abilities at a faster and healthier pace. Mansi Aggarwal, Director, Scottish Early Years was also of the view that stimulation of the intelligence of the child certainly increases the chances of the child to learn how to survive, develop EQ, and understand for themselves what is safe and not safe.

In contemporary India, where our children are raised in nuclear families, or single parent families, they get very less time to spend with their parents. On the other hand, children residing with grandparents learn a lot through various stories. They talk about values, safety, sharing and caring. Sharing her concern on the similar lines, Sai Kumari, Principal, Jain Cambridge School, Hyderabad said, “Absence of joint family structure brings a lot more responsibility on the early childhood educators to train the children while they are at the school.”

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Springville Preschools: Striding towards a brighter future in Franchise Biz At Springville, we are planning to set-up approximately 15 new centers till the end of the financial year 2019-20 for achieving our 1st-year target of 20+ centers, says Ajay Kumar Dube, Co-Founder & Director, Springville Preschools, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

Springville Preschools has been the most awarded preschool, what is the success mantra behind it?

We started in February 2019 with our first COCO model centre at Vadodara, Gujarat. We are targeting to provide the best care and learning to children at each campus with the support of our trained staff, learning equipment, concepts and methodology. With same thought and plan within 6 months of operations, we have opened 7 centers at different locations of India and Nepal through franchisee route. We are getting very positive feedback from the market, parents, franchisee partners and visitors for our concepts, learning methodology, set-up and infra, student kit quality, books and content quality, curriculum and training etc.

What innovative teaching-learning practices are adopted for the holistic development of children while reading, listening and playing?

We are following best practices of Montessori along with Indian Value System at our each of the campuses. We are developing the best equipped Montessori and Self Learning Lab at our every centre.

Along with Montessori Lab, we are developing many other learning zones/arenas for our young champs, like: Gym Arena, Story Telling Arena, Mini Library, Creative Arena, Art and Craft Arena, Mini Stage with Podium, Tree House, Indoor and Outdoor Play Arena. Along with all the above concepts at the campus, we are also adding the 360-degree digital learning and communication tools.

What practices does your preschool follow to ensure effective teacher training programs to cater to all aspects of a child’s development?

We have a specific Academic and Training Department in our company. We have divided our training sessions into multiple parts for making it more effective and result oriented followed

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by regular Academic Audit. Training Level 1: For Theme Based Decoration, Documentation, Counseling, Orientation etc. Training Level 2: For Using Digital Learning Tools. Training Level 3: For Academic Curriculum, Activities, and Montessori Lab Equipment Practices etc.

Could you throw some light on the franchise model of business of Springville Preschools?

At Springville, we are developing our centres through two different business models: 1. COCO (Company Owned and Company Operated) Model: Under this model, we are developing our centres only in Vadodara city. 2. FOFO (Franchisee Owned and Franchisee Operated) Model: under this model, we are offering unit and master franchisees of our school brand in India and Nepal. We have a specific budget range for setting up a unit franchisee centre in India and Nepal.

What is the vision and mission for the future?

We are planning to set-up approx. 15 new centers till the end of financial year 2019-20 for achieving our 1st-year target of 20+ centers. We are planning to divide our targets, like, COCO model preschools in Vadodara, India- 1 new centre; FOFO Model Centres in India-7 centres and FOFO Model Centres in Nepal-7 centres.

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Play Based Learning Encourages a Holistic Experience for the little ones The current preschool scenario in India will witness a tremendous growth in the coming years, despite the challenges, says Ms Neeta Singh, Principal, Little Wings School, Ranchi in conversation with Reetika Bose of Elets News Network (ENN).

Tell us the vision and mission of Little Wings School.

Little Wings School, Ranchi was established in 2011 with a vision to inculcate the values of education in a fully inclusive environment with equal opportunities for all. Every children should love their learning, achieve their potential and become independent lifelong learners. Our mission is to ensure a positive and productive, physical and cultural environment and advance excellence in teaching. We are committed to maintaining a systematic and continuous assessment program for every student.

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What are the activities and play based learning that encourage the holistic development of the child?

How is technology integrated in the classrooms and how different it is from other preschools?

Play based activities increase flexibility and improves potential for learning in later life. Keeping this in mind, we have focused our curriculum on holistic education by including yoga, value education, different dance forms, singing, instruments like keyboard and tabla, self defense activities, musical bands etc. It is a matter of pride that Little Wings have the youngest band troop of Jharkhand and has performed in the presence of Hon’ble Governor and Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Engaging in several activities help in building their leadership qualities during any school programmes.

What are the initiatives taken at Little Wings that make you one of the best preschools in Ranchi?

It is very important for us to provide a healthy, happy and relaxed atmosphere for the children. Making the classrooms environment friendly for the students, providing training to teachers are some of our initiatives. Keeping the safety in mind, we implemented some features like CCTV cameras, well equipped GPS tracking for the vehicles, etc.

Students take part in the activities like to fulfill social accountability too by visiting orphanage, distributing, fruits and sweets and spending time among them, distributing clothes to the poor, plantation drives, etc.

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Technology is the vehicle to engage students in a more active role in the learning process. Technological devices and applications make the classroom environment more exciting for the children. High tech classrooms and digital black boards are the special features in Little Wings. In order to keep our children connected with the outside world, we organise documentaries and tell them inspirational life stories of our real heroes. This keeps them engaged in everyday learning that makes our school different from other schools.

Where is the future of preschool segment in India vrooming towards?

Preschool education is an early childhood education trend that is catching up fast in India. As per the market research, in the next three to four years the preschool sector in India is likely to achieve a compound annual growth rate of approximately 32%. The growth factors include an improved standard of living and increasing demand for pre-primary education and increase in the number of working mothers. Despite one of the growing sectors in India, it has its own challenges. The current scenario suggests that the preschool sector in India will witness a tremendous growth in the coming years, despite the challenges.

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Cambridge Montessori Preschool: Leading way for affordable franchise model in India & abroad We have developed an affordable model of preschool franchise in India, requiring low investment for the establishment and functioning without compromising on high-quality learning for kids, says Pankaj Kumar Singh, Founder and MD, Cambridge Montessori Preschool, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

In the last two years, Cambridge Montessori has expanded to a chain of 200 plus preschools, what is the driving force behind it?

We are planning to increase the numbers in the coming years and that calls for us to push every day. Cambridge Montessori Preschool and Daycare has developed an affordable model of the preschool franchise in India on an international level, requiring low investment for the establishment and functioning of the preschool franchise in India without compromising on the high-quality learning for kids.

You have integrated Robotics, Mind Lab and Montessori Lab in your preschools. How the kids have responded to technology-based learning?

Mind Lab instigates young mind to think beyond and expand the horizon of learning. It works on their grey matter and challenges their own limits in a scientific manner. Our mission is to prepare the next generation for complex challenges by strengthening a broad range of cognitive, emotional and social skills by teaching how to think reflectively and by encouraging the kids how to learn.

What special arrangements are made to make parents (working couples) feel comfortable in sending their little ones?

Here, kids have the comfort and freedom to choose their own activities. The environment is nurturing and helps children to become enthusiastic learners and develop self-discipline. The best part that gives parents a sigh of relief is the scope for kids to do self-construction. Here, they become expressive

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and also develop a self- esteem.

What measures have been undertaken to ensure that adequate safety, security and hygiene standards are maintained?

We have an exhaustive list of safety and security compliance measures that include CCTV surveillance, Live Streaming, RFID instruments, verification of staff, restricted entry into the school, teachers training on incident management, availability of fire extinguishers and first aid kits.

Tell us in detail about the Cambridge Montessori Teacher Training Institute?

Cambridge Montessori Teacher Training Institute is one of the unique places where Dr Maria Montessori’s concept of early childhood training is given with utmost sincerity. The curriculum and the entire program has been curated and shaped in a way that it leads to the overall development of kids. The duration of course here is 6 months that include 4 months of classroom training and 2 months of on-the-job-training. Those with no work experience can also join the course, all one needs is a passing certificate of 10+2 from any recognized board.

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Championing the voices of the early years We always put the child first because what is best for the child is best for parents and providers, says Neil Leitch, Chief Executive Officer, Early Years Alliance, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN) to childcare, often because they’re from poorer families or living in disadvantaged areas. That particular policy is having a hugely damaging effect on providers too of course but we know that we win the argument by making the case for children, something which was clearly missing when the government first developed its policy.

How challenging is it to meet the interests of the sector?

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Chief Executive Officer, Early Years Alliance

Tell us about the journey of the Early Years Alliance.

Our journey started as ‘Preschool Playgroups Association’ in 1961, where a young London mother, Belle Tutaev had set up a preschool in the absence of a state nursery place for her young daughter.

The response was overwhelming with many parents following the similar footsteps. Within a year, Belle and other parents had rallied 150 members together and organised the first Annual General Meeting of the Pre-school Playgroups Association, today known as the Early Years Alliance. In May 1963, the Alliance gained official charity status and has championed the voice of the early years sector ever since.

Today, we are a national education charity and the largest early years membership organisation in England, representing the interests of 14,000 Alliance members who deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year,

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This is a hugely challenging time for the early years sector in England. We’ve seen around 9,000 providers close in the last few years due to underfunding. There’s currently a £662 million shortfall in the funding providers receive for delivering the government’s funded hours. It clearly had an impact on the training and personal development opportunities available to the workforce, and our providers are struggling to recruit and retain staff.

Despite the challenges we face, we’re delivering some of the best childcare in the world. We’re supporting the sector in their professional development by providing free online education courses with Alliance membership.

Highlight the Teacher training programme that your brand holds onto?

The Alliance has a comprehensive training programme supporting Level 2 and 3 qualifications, as well as, specialist themed courses.

Our online training has been a huge success and it’s available free as part of membership and that every single employee of a member group can access over 20 courses. Courses range from safeguarding to early years nutrition and to date, we have delivered over 250,000 courses. In an ever changing sector, we are constantly expanding and updating our portfolio of training.

What is the driving force behind this evergrowing organisation?

Are there any plans for establishing roots in India?

Good early years policy should always put children first but sometimes they are forgotten. We campaign not only to change that but also make sure our members are supported, through books and training resources.

What takes up most of our energy as a campaigning organisation, is the concern that some children have no access

Last year, I was appointed to the Department for International Trade’s Education Advisory Board representing the early years sector in the UK. We do have a small number of members based in India but are always keen to talk to international providers about the work we do. Usually, this is by way of speaking at conferences or international events.

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Redefining Preschool with True Smart Learning System Sanfort will be completing a decade in the preschool fraternity and is humbled to be recognised amongst the top 5 preschools chains in India, says S. K. Rathor, Chairman & Managing Director, Sanfort Group of Schools in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN). gamification, rhymes & stories.

Our Sanfort app allows staying in touch with the parents on regular basis and sharing the entire academic content and notices, which allow easy access for the parents. Moreover, our 3D technology and tab lab enables experiential learning for the children.

Tell us your experience with your franchise partners in the franchise business? What are the parameters of choosing the right franchise partner for your brand?

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Chairman & Managing Director, Sanfort Group of Schools

Been a decade now since Sanfort was launched way back in 2009. How has been your entrepreneurial journey so far?

4 What are the future initiatives that will be inculcated within the classrooms? Where do you see the future of preschool education heading?

Sanfort with its distinct curriculum and a unique pedagogy based on U.K concept of learning has 250+ branches in India and neighbouring countries. It has nurtured more than 80,000 students and is adding 10,000 Sanfortees to its alumni network every year. We have earned 58 prestigious awards.

Celebrating 10th year, Sanfort took its next big step to enter into formal schooling by launching Sanfort World School a progression of Sanfort preschool which has already spread its branches in 3 cities.

Studying the need of the hour I believe infusing AI and Robotics with our traditional teaching techniques would be a game changer in our classrooms.

The Indian Preschool Industry has a huge scope for private players as market size of pre-school segment was valued Rs.13cr in FY 2017 and is expected to grow with a CAGR of over 31% over the next three years. Currently it is contributing 32 billion USD to country’s GDP. Sanfort aims to reach a number of 500+ branches by 2021.

The brand is adding 12-15 branches every month. Sanfort plans to open 5 more company-owned K12 schools in India as well as in neighboring countries and we also plan to venture into corporate day cares. In order to grow multifold, Sanfort is ready to introduce FPI. The brand is also working towards teaching girl child in rural areas and plans to open a school to educate underprivileged children.

Tell us about the teaching tools and methodologies in your classrooms.

At Sanfort, we have a True Smart Learning System where our uniquely designed curriculum is mapped to the digital content, which helps to initiate learning process at such an early age and enables the children to explore different concepts through

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The brand works on a franchise model, which played a key role in swift expansion and penetration in different parts of the country.

Sanfort has a meticulous screening process for franchisees. We start our support system from the very stage of market survey, site selection, planning the interior and exteriors of the branch, planning of the pre-launch, launch & post - launch marketing activities, recruitment & extensive training of the franchisee and periodic skill up-gradation programs to elevate their skills and competencies, academic support, continuous advertising and marketing planning for local promotions.

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The concept of pre-schooling evolved in India a couple of decades back and has been developing rapidly in the current scenario. Preschools have acquired an unprecedented substance, holding a distinct place in India and globally.

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“India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019” Preschools are no longer a luxury or an option, but rather a necessity for parents today. In such a scenario, parents look for the best and the safest space for their children.

In view of its billowing importance, digitalLEARNING, Asia and the Middle East’s premiere magazine on Innovation in Education, has come up with India’s ‘Top Preschools Ranking’ for the fourth time. It is noteworthy that the preschool segment assists modern-day parents in laying a strong foundation of their kids’ basic education.

With a hands on three years experience in preschool ranking, we have determined the important parameters for the ranking of various preschools across the country. In this edition, we have explored the various dimensions of the preschool segment through “India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019”, With an innovative push, digitalLEARNING Magazine is trying to create an integrated and a thorough database of diverse, high quality early childhood education and care services.

“India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019” aims to help a lot of parents in choosing the most suited preschools for their children in a safe and hygienic environment. At an early age, good quality education ensures a child’s holistic development which is a must to make the children future ready. digitalLEARNING magazine not only covers the top preschools across India but also incorporates the ranking factors and methodologies that goes ahead in the making of the best preschool ranking in India.

It is noteworthy that the ranking is for all those who are somehow attached to a preschool such as parents, teachers, educators and school management.

“India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019” is aimed at highlighting and providing a broad range of finest educational programmes, dedicated to inculcate those skills which hold the potential to help children tackle career and life-related challenges with ease.

The intent of the magazine is to involve parents, teachers and preschool administration, which will help in nurturing the children holistically. The cumulative efforts of all three will help to train children in an environment that not only promotes physical activities but also boost confidence, thus preparing them to be progressive thinkers.

The preschool ranking is supported by our various conferences and summits held in different cities across the country and at global level as well. Globally and nationally renowned Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) leaders along with principals and teachers have participated in these events and shared their expertise and knowledge about the preschool segment.

Considering all that enthusiasm and aforementioned factors in government and private space of preschool segment, we present the perception-based “India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019”.

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Ranking Preschools

The Methodology “India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019” is divided into two categories -- Standalone Preschool Ranking and Franchise Preschool Ranking. The rankings to different preschools have been allotted on the basis of various parameters listed below under the aforementioned categories.

In this perception-based ranking, standalone preschools have been covered in five zones -- North, South, East, West and Central, whereas franchise preschools have been covered from various cities of the country.

Ranking top preschools of India is one of the most challenging tasks, given the large size of the educational ecosystem. To start with, the ranking questionnaires were sent to over 1,500 preschools across the country.

The response on this ranking activity was overwhelming, with over 1,200 schools replying to our queries.

Methodology for Preschool Ranking Parameters for Standalone Preschool Ranking: Standalone category includes the preschools which do not sell their franchise. These are self owned centres managed by a single company, committee or trust. The location can be in any part of the city or across different cities of the country.

Below are the certain considered parameters to rank Standalone Preschools:

Holistic Development of Students: Ranking under this parameter is based on how preschools focus on addressing all of its students’ emotional, physical, relational, intellectual, creative and spiritual needs. This perspective to development encourages caregivers and teachers to look at the child in entirety instead of focusing on individual aspects of personality.

Infrastructure: One of the key parameters to ensuring healthy, safe and hygienic learning

environment for kids in preschools. The schools were evaluated on the basis of infrastructural aspects of the school like classrooms, transitional spaces and supervisable circulation spaces (such as hallways and corridors).

Pedagogy: It refers to the study of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context. Based on the below mentioned factors, the ranking of preschool taken forward to.

(1) Curriculum or what is being taught (2) Teaching methodology or the ways followed

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to teach the toddlers and (3) Methods followed by preschools to develop cognitive and affective skills.

Innovation in ICT Usage: In today’s competitive and fast changing world, Information

Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role for a student’s overall development.

Under this parameter, factors like, promoting latest technology tools for learning, keeping best security practices through ICT, innovative teaching and use of ICT to link home and school effectively have been considered to rank the preschools.

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Student Enrollment: The number of students enrolled annually is what being analysed in this parameter. The focus is broadly on the preschool enrollment in the last five years.

After a comparative analysis of the last five-year report, ranks are allotted to a preschool in this segment.

Parameters for Franchise Preschool Ranking: Education is India’s fastest growing franchise business sector after food and beverage. The preschools by selling their franchises establish centres across the country for fulfilling basic educational needs of the children in their early learning years. The ranking of preschool franchises is done on the basis of following parameters:

Success in Franchise: To determine the ranks under this parameter, various important factors like, standards followed by all the franchise of a brand are followed or not, employee training, services provided to customers, involvement with the community, communication rate between franchisor and franchise are considered.

Infrastructure: This parameter is very important to ensure a healthy, pleasant yet

comfortable learning environment for kids in preschools. To rank a preschool, factors like campus area, total built-up area, safety and security, classrooms conditions and transitional spaces are considered.

Innovation in Pedagogy: Pedagogy is the discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education. Innovation in pedagogy draws more interest of kids towards the subject. So, it is an important parameter to decide rank for a franchise preschool.

Quality Assurance: Quality assurance is the systematic process to check whether a product or service being developed is meeting specified requirements or not. For a preschool, quality assurance is to boost customer confidence and a school’s credibility.

Quality assurance helps a preschool franchise to improve work processes and efficiency, and enable it to compete with others. In order to get ranked among the top preschools franchises, they have to follow and abide by the certain quality standards.

Preferred Preschool Franchise: The parameter is about the preschool preferences of parents for their wards. Usually the preference is decided on the basis of a preschools chain’s goodwill among the public, its quality of education, facilities like security and safety of kids, hygiene and transportation arrangements.

The above mentioned parameters decides how your preschool is better than others in each and every aspect possible.

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Mongrace Montessori House, short street

Mongrace Montessori House, Short Street, Kolkata was founded in 1964

by Ms. Monjushree Chatterjee and Ms. Grace Wasim Pina with a view to guide children in their formative years. The Suresh Amiya Memorial Trust took over the management of Mongrace Montessori House in 1984.

BuBBle Blue Guided by Principles of Maria Montessori, Bubble Blue is dedicated playscHool, salt towards bringing out the best in children, thus encouraging all-round lake development in them.

Starkids, rajarhat Starkids aim to provide the optimal learning environment and the curriculum to foster the all-round development of a child, including academic achievement and life-skills enrichment.

Miranda House Play Miranda House Play School located in Barabazar. Miranda House was School established in 1991.With over 25 years of experience, the school has set a high standard in child development and education.The school has a combination of Montessori and Play Way method of teaching which is interwoven with the latest and modern teaching appliances.

Genius Kids, Salt Genius Kids encourage in all children, the growth of independent thought, Lake character, creativity, expression, effort and personal discipline within safe and professionally managed school environment.

PARARMBH A renowned preschool in Kolkata which provides an ideal teaching and prescHool, B t road learning environment with safety and hygiene. It has a student ratio of 1:15.

Leap year Play Children at Leap Years are assured of getting the care that they need, the School creative learning experiences they enjoy, and the intellectually challenging opportunities they deserve.Our child centred curriculum is structured to allow freedom to the child, encourage creativity and enables us to guide the child as they explore and learn. The entire focus is on experiential learning for the child.

Stepping Stones It is an English medium co-educational school, providing the best learning PrescHool, salt environment and quality of education lake Yellow House The methodology of our teaching is influenced by Reggio Emilia and PreSchool and Waldorf Way of education. We are very serious about recycling and living Afterschool in harmony with nature. Yellow House is a Preschool cum daycare with a difference. Surrounded by lush green vegetation, it is a perfect getaway for your child. “ If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth, be with nature before we ask them to save it.�

Montessori Montessori Bal Nilaya, located at Lake Gardens in Kolkata, is a Montessori Bal nilaya, lake school founded with a mission to provide high quality pre-primary gardens education to each child.

Little scHolars, Little Scholars philosophy is based on a simple concept of imparting sarat Bose road knowledge and providing opportunities to learn life skills through play way and child centric activities. young learners, Young Learners, Located at Salt Lake in Kolkata, is an English medium, cosalt lake educational pre-school, offering children a comprehensive early childhood learning experience with the high quality preschool programmes to nurture uniqueness of every child.

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Olive green kids scHool, navrangpura RedBricks Junior, satellite

It is a preparatory co-educational day school established in 2006, which aims to provide students the best educational programmes, combining internationally acclaimed approaches to early childhood education.

Redbricks Junior is a preschool venture by Redbricks Education Foundation that integrates research-based curriculum, nurturing teachers and excellent infrastructure in order to create a strong foundation for the child's early education and development.

Rising kids Rising Kids Preschool is an initiative of independent educationist with prescHool, almost a decade of experience in preschool segment. The organisation has Bapunagar brought forward the next generation of preschools in order to change the way people see preschools.

THuMBelina nursery As an institution focuses on providing a stress-free, safe, secure, loving, & k g scHool, hygienic and comfortable environment to its students as we believe only naranpura then children will be encouraged to being proactive to learn well with each other.

Smart kids, At Smart Kids, we have smart classrooms and curriculum is also designed in Maninagar such a way that it opens the doors of thinking for them and liberates their minds to explore.

CrayonZ prescHool The Crayonz Preschool aims to provide value based education with a and cHild care, curriculum based on the Montessori philosophy and approach. south Bopal Crescent Pre Crescent found its existence in 1990, as a brain child of Shilpa Shah who Primary ScHool, nurtured a dream of crafting a place for little children where they can create Memnagar their own little world.

Vedant Vedant International Preschool is a unique school which combines international contemporary and conventional methods of teaching in a flexible manner, in prescHool, accordance with the age and aptitude of the child.

Maninaga Britton -the early Britton is an innovative chain offering the world’s best early learning and learning, anand care programmes in India. nagar road Lakshaya Lakshaya Preschool is a new age 21st century preschool in the city of preschool, spring Ahmedabad providing international quality of education blended with Indian road cultural value systems.

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Head start Montessori, koramangala

Head Start Montessori House of Children has been a home away from home for many children in Bengaluru for over three decades. This Montessori House of Children is known for its love and attention for the child.

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Neev, Whitefield

Neev Whitefield is a spacious, thoughtfully planned campus located on the main stretch of the neighbourhood. The center provides a safe, nurturing and responsive environment for all children and their families.

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wecare, sarjapur road

Founded in 2008, all WeCare centres provide a spacious, clean, safenurturing and developmentally appropriate environment for early learners as young as 1½ months to 12 years of age.

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Bgs National Public BGSNPS is founded by Pontiff His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri School, Hulimavu Balagangadaranatha Swamiji of Adhichunchanagiri Math, who over the past has strived hard to promote educational institutions of international stature.

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Primus Public The vision of the Primus Public School is to provide school education that School, ensures academic excellence, empowers students and arms them with Chikanayakanahalli faculties that will help them conquer their dreams.

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Fun and Learn, R T Nagar

Fun and Learn provides the right platform for integration of knowledge , values , life skills through its well researched and structured content .

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The Bangalore School, Whitefield

The Bangalore School strives to be the best among the schools in the country by ensuring qualitative improvement in the child's attitude towards learning, caring for others and preserve nature and environment.

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First steps, Crescent road

First Steps started in the year 1984 - 85 at No 12 Cunningham Crescent road Bangalore - 52. The school is located in a compound which has a rich history dating back to the year 1884.

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Klay, Whitefield

At the KLAY Center, we create a stimulating and positive environment with right resources and teachers who enjoy and are committed to their work and enable the children to be the creator of their own world.

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The Magical years, kodigehalli

The Magical Years is a Montessori pre-school that sees your child as he really is, and develop his potential, be it spiritual, emotional, physical or intellectual.

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Trio Tots Preschool

The TOTS Preschool has been developed with an aim to make the hidden calibers of kids flourish through simple hands on activities that are scientifically designed.

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Greenwood HigH Preschool Activity Centre, Gunjur Post

The Greenwood High Preschool Activity Center (PSAC) was established in the year 2004 on the Sarjapur Road within Koramangala's 3rd Block with the aim of preparing children for entry in one seamless easy step into the Primary School.

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Neev, indiranagar

Neev, started 12 years ago, with the vision of creating a new benchmark of excellence in education in India. We now have five preschools and Neev Academy - a full continuum IB school with an option of middle school ICSE.

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Indus Early Learning Centre, Whitefield

At the Indus Early Learning Centre, children develop into curious, enthusiastic, and lifelong learners in a child-friendly environment.

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Green Dot Montessori, Hosur Road

Green Dot Montessori school has been offering education based on Montessori method to children since 2011. Our goal is to help the child to become a human being who is comfortable with himself, with his society and a humanity as whole.

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Petals Montessori School, Marathahalli

At Petals Montessori, our aim is to bring out the best in each child to fulfil their potential both in academic and social human terms. We follow the Montessori teaching method which has been proven highly successful all over the world.

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Indus Early Learning Centre, Adyar

Indus International Primary School, started in August 2012, Chennai by the Indus Trust. The school caters to pre-primary education for children below the age of 6 years.

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Kiwilearners, neelankarai

KiwiLearners is supported by the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, robust quality assurance systems, innovative assessment and reporting practices, and overall professional centre leadership.

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Alphabet Play School, Abirampuram

Alphabet, has been incepted to create a difference. Its foundation was laid with the objective of schooling children by giving their free minds a pathway to ensure their progressive personal development and quality learning.

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Vruksha Montessori

Vruksha Montessori caters to the emotional and educational needs of the child from the age of two. Vruksha’s special, proven approach will guide your child towards independence, a love of learning and future success.

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Seed Academy, Kottivakkam

Seed Academy is a result of years of research in understanding how the brain works and the methods to maximize learning. Seed Academy is an innovative K-12 school from the house of SEED.

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aMelio early learning centre, Besant nagar

Amelio Early Learning Centre was founded in 2008 by two women who graduated from Harvard Business School with the firm belief that women can have it all – a fulfilling career and loving, well cared for children.

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BaMBoola, raja annamalaipuram

Bamboola is recognized for its high quality of educare. Bamboola has mastered the art of easing the child and making the transition from home to school a pleasant one.

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alacris prescHool, adyar

The Alacris Preschool offers an exciting learning environment and a safe and nurturing space for young children to learn and grow.

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seed, adyar

SEED provides a safe and nurturing learning environment for children. Our Quality Educational Programs for Play School, Preschool and Kindergarten comprise of highly qualified, caring and committed teachers and support staff.

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learning tree, adyar

Over the years, Learning Tree has established itself as one of the premier Montessori schools in the city for pre-primary education. Learning Tree uses the Montessori method to help each child spontaneously reach his or her full potential - intellectually, socially, and emotionally.

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sprouts Montessori, Mylapore

At Sprouts, children have the opportunity to discover their personal strengths in a child-centered environment. They develop on their own timetable, and each child is known and appreciated for his or her individuality.

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srisHti Montessori scHool, nungambakkam

Srishti Montessori School has adopted the Montessori approach to education for its sound educational principles.

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seed, anna nagar

SEED provides a safe and nurturing learning environment for children. Our Quality Educational Programs for Play school, Preschool and Kindergarten comprise of highly qualified, caring and committed teachers and support staff.

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BlooMing lotus prescHool, anna nagar

The objective of Blooming Lotus(Day Care Centre) is to produce a child who is beginning to feel confident about self, enjoys creative tasks, can take simple decisions easily, enjoy the process of learning and achieve wholeness.

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Patasala Montessori scHool, Nungambakkam

Leading children into the world of exploration, learning and growing, Patasala Montessori School today rests on the vision of Dr. Maria Montessori, founder of the Montessori Method of education.

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CHIREC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, Telecom Officers Colony Jain Toddlers- An International Play School Blue Blocks, gachibowli

Established in 1989 by Ratna Reddy, Chirec International School was founded as a vibrant summer camp for children to develop their skills in arts, sports, and technology.

Since the early 1990s, The JGI Group has been a trailblazer in the field of education. We strive to create an environment that balances education, exposure, sports and skill development while remaining true to our heritage We believe in providing children a new world of experience where a child is awakened to the possibilities of life and his own potential. Blue Blocks is a premier non conformist school in Hyderabad established in 2009 with the vision to provide a rich and resourceful schooling environment.

Founded in 1996, the preschool offers an environment which helps the students to learn in a fun way.

Chirec International School, Jubilee Hills Polka dots, Jubilee Traditional schooling heavily favors the verbal-linguistic and logicalHills mathematical intelligences. These have been emphasized in education since the inception of Polka Dots.

Tulips – The The Tulips Preschool follows a blend of International Baccalaureate (IB) and preschool, montessori methods.

Bachupally First innings, Our mission is to provide a nurturing and comfortable environment for your Banjara Hills little ones. We at First Innings strive to promote holistic growth by taking into account every child’s intellectual, creative, and emotional needs.

Little einsteins, LE Preschool was set up in 2007 with the vision of providing learning kondapur environments that are child-centered and based on the multiple intelligence framework of Dr. Howard Gardner, a well-renowned cognitive psychologist from Harvard University.

Indus early Started in 2011, The Indus Early Learning Centre prepares children for entry learning center, into schools.

Jubilee Hills Indus international Indus International Junior School was established with an ennobling vision Junior scHool, of creating Leaders of Tomorrow, by imparting holistic education in an serilingampally environment of excellence.

Abode kids The Abode Kids International mission is to create an environment rich with international varied experiences, where kids will explore, learn, play, create, visualise, scHool, gachibowli socialise and celebrate their uniqueness.

Early World Early World Preschool Early World Preschool was established with International the objective to make a difference in the childcare world by offering a School unique kind of quality care, to create not only a safe, learning and loving environment, but also to make true friendships and relationships with each family that entrusted us with their children. This trust was imperative to truly provide the best care possible. Today, Early World Preschool has produced and carried out this quality care by growing to be the most trusted and sought after licensed daycare and preschool centers.

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pallavan, sohna road

Pallavan has been a very successful programme that offers education, therapy and life training to children and young adults with special needs between 0-24 years. idiscoveri Xseed The Idiscoveri Preschool seeks a firm foundation for our children. It marks prescHool, sector the beginning of a promise to bring quality education to the lives of children.

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Apple Blossom Apple Blossom- a pre-primary school where tiny tots bloom and grow in prescHool, sector a warm, secure and stimulating environment. It is their “home away from 46 home” where they are given time and space to learn at their own pace and opportunities to express themselves creatively.

MedHaaM Medhaam has been envisioned and conceptualised by the PNR Group. The prescHool, south group has ventured into the education sector to set up premier institutions city - 1 with exemplary state-of-the-art facilities and unconventional progressive teaching methodologies. intellitots Over 7,500 families have benefited from the variety of early years prescHool, sector 2 programmes offered by Intellitots Preschool ranging from preschool, kindergarten, parent toddler, daycare and enrichment activities. pumpkin House, Pumpkin House focuses on development of Language Skills, Musical Social sushant lok-1 and Interpersonal Skills, Self help Skills. Spatial, Sensorial Logical reasoning and Mathematical skills Making choices Awareness of the World Around them. the shri ram early From the moment children walk through the gates of ‘The Shri Ram Wonder years, sector 4 Years’ they embark on a journey of discovery. The school provides a safe and welcoming environment which gives children an opportunity to learn, play, imagine and discover themselves. pathways early Through play, our children develop into confident communicators, problem years, golf course solvers and thinkers. We bring our experience with the International road Baccalaureate programme of enquiry to shape our Pathways Early Years. salwan Montessori At Salwan Montessori School, we are committed to personal excellence school, , sector 5 of each student by imparting holistic quality education enriched with high moral values in a healthy competitive learning environment. klay, sector 49 The school has an expertise in school development, curriculum development, teachers’ training and information and communication technology (ICT) for schools.

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Besant Montessori school, Juhu

The aim of the school was to provide the best education (pre primary as well as primary) for the children of suburbs, based on the principles of education of Theosophical concepts as expounded by Dr. Annie Besant.

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Sacred Heart School-Preschool, Kalyan

Sacred Heart School’s mission is to ensure that its students get access to anything and everything. From technology to music, and International sports to science – They ensure that the students have everything required for their betterment

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Harmony Montessori, khar west

Harmony Integral Education for Life , an organisation founded by Beena Parekh, has a school that attends to children between 14 months –12 years of age. We follow the Montessori Method of education based on the principles and philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori.

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west wind, Gamdevi West Wind 72 years old non-profit institution devoted exclusively to the intellectual and the emotional well being of the child, with mothers playing a pivotal role in administration.

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little palms school, Breach candy

The philosophy of Little Palms School is to develop the child holistically in a stimulating environment, striking a balance between the formal and informal methods of teaching.

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spring buds

Spring Buds International School's aim is to create a purpose for learning and allow children to be thinkers, innovators and problem solvers; to orchestrate experiences that will result in a natural and integrated development of knowledge, skills and thinking.

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Sunflower Preschool

Sunflower Preschool has a long history of more than 46 years with the belief that after rest and nutrition, preschoolers need to PLAY. Within the limitations of a large and densely populated city, we are lucky to have a Pre school that has space for the kids to play, run, swim and be in the sand pit."

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Casa Bambino Montessori was started by Yasmine Mama in 1965. It follows the Montessori Method of education used over a century with outmost success all around the world.

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Our vision is to create lifelong learners who are confident global citizens who excel in their endeavors and contribute to the betterment of the society at large through their knowledge and commitment.

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PLANET KIDS PLAYSCHOOL AND DAYCARE

At Planet Kids Mumbai, we aspire to be a leading provider of high quality and affordable Preschool/Daycare services,which allow chidren to realise their potential.

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l’Ecole Montessori International was established in 2007 with an aim to provide Montessori education to children. Children at LMI are encouraged to explore, investigate and fulfill their natural curiosity about the world around them.

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Kosh Preschool

Kosh Preschool provides a caring, friendly and fun environment for 2 to 5 year-olds. Our nurturing, homely and creative environment offers not only a gentle introduction to social life beyond the family but also helps each child to develop independence and fulfill their potential.

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Friends Academy, Mulund

Friends’ Academy is a prominent school, established in 2009 with ICSE curriculum in Mulund. We introduce ourselves as Friends’ Academy because we treat our students and parents as friends. We are one of the widely expanding educational centres in Mulund.

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Saifee Nursery School, Bhuleshwa

At Saifee - Eide - Zahabi, we believe that learning is a natural process and every child will learn. All children are born with a sense of curiosity which motivates learning.

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Casa Vista Montessori Preschool

Casa Vista Montessori Preschool has been established with a mission to nurture future generations, by providing an environment, with experiences that promote social, emotional, physical and cognitive development. Our curriculum and approach to learning is practical and based on real-life experiences, that is driven by curiosity and the ability to discover things naturally.

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Leapbridge international preschool, sion west

Leapbridge education, an initiative of the Navneet Group believes in teaching children to love learning. By using novel teaching methods and a curriculum designed especially for children.

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Little Bo Peep Nursery, Pre-school and Fun club is a family run business with close links to Inkberrow and the surrounding parishes. We take pride in providing high quality affordable childcare, where the child and their welfare is our top priority.

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The magic years' was started in 1978 with the aim to providing young children in New Delhi, a fine start to their education. The preschool follows the methods and teaching propounded by Dr Maria Montessori.

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The preschool has grown from 8 children in 1992 to over 450 students and 50 staff members. Over the years, we have worked hard to create a loving and nurturing environment where children feel completely at home.

An institution where co -curricular activities are given as much importance as academics, the Little Pearls Preschool ensures that not only the different learning styles of each child are incoporated but the hidden talents in each child are also discovered and encouraged.

The school tirelessly endeavours to bring in new processes in terms of technology & pedagogy, without compromising on its high ideals.

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In this premier institute of excellence, we are ‘old hands’ in the business of imagination, collaboration and satiating additional needs of children that promises to keep your indefatigable prodigies forever young. Any child who enters the portals of this ‘home away from home’ shall surely engage in the joyful and wondrous task of growing, learning, exploring, creating, imagining and discovering.

Salwan Montessori School is a citadel of learning under the aegis of Salwan Education Trust. It is a co-educational kindergarten for children aged between three to five.

The school has a vision of creating a community of connected, confident, Indian global citizens. The school's objective is to motivate children for “how to learn”.

The Ardee School, Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi, established in 1990, offers a pure Montessori curriculum. It is a multi-national and multi-cultural community with branches in New Friends Colony, Gurugram, Noida and Goa.

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The school works towards a holistic development of every student and pedagogical tools to provide its students with the behaviours, actions, measures, and structures that are a translation of intentions.

Wonderland, At Wonderland, the area of focus is to provide a happy growing experience chanakyapuri to students by nurturing healthy relationships with teachers. Our curriculum comprises activities that foster their skills to work with others, play cooperatively, help others, have a sense of empathy, and be a part of a team.

Golden Bells At Golden Bells, we believe in unleashing the genius in every child.

Preschool, Ashok Education is a human necessity and an ornament that adorns life. A good Vihar education system plays a vital role in moulding the life of children and it starts in the early years of childhood. tender Feet nursery Tender Feet Nursery School, is a culmination of a life-long desire to provide school, vasant good, wholesome education to little ones in a professional manner within a kunj homely, healthy and happy atmosphere.

Sam International Set up in an eco-friendly and lush green surrounding, Sam International School, Dwarka School provides a well designed academic complex which stimulates the learning environment for the children. learning tree The Learning Tree Playschool was established in January, 1995. Situated in preschool khan a green environment in the heart of Lutyen’s Delhi, the school welcomes its market little children to the wonders of nature as it unfolds through the seasons.

Scottish Early Years Scottish Early Years strives on the philosophy that each child is unique.

We aim to maintain the highest global standards of early years education by keeping in sync with latest international developments and embracing internationally accredited practices. We prepare the child for the journey ahead in the best way possible by nurturing the free mind; for it is the free mind which holds potential to innovate. shishu vun Shishu Vun believes that every learner comes with a curriculum of her/his preschool, vasant own. The school is an environment in which learners find the support for kunj their learning. the study school, The Study School believes in activity-based learning. The activities are east of kailash designed to provide an overall broad based foundation for the child."

The Knowledge Bus The Knowledge Bus Global Pre-School thrives to provide an extensive educational background for children to regulate their learning abilities.

Our commitment in the requisite direction stands for Enhancing socialism, Refining communication, Boosting confidence.

Granmothers Arms In our decade-long legacy of nurturing the ‘unique potential’ of every child, we have shaped, in metros and suburbs alike, a new cult of schooling for toddlers. On this revolutionary journey, we evidenced and impacted the much-needed shift from ‘teachers’ quieting an assembly line of children to ‘enablers’ shaping children into smart-thinking, dynamic, and ‘ready-for-life’ individual.

Cherubs Play Here at Cherubs Play School, we aim to provide the very highest quality of School childcare and education for children. Our mission is to nourish the inherent talents of toddlers and inculcate basic values. We understand that choosing a play school for your child is a big decision. By choosing Cherubs you are giving your child an excellent environment to develop in so many ways.

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The school’s vision is to help each child grow into a confident individual with a strong foundation and love and desire to learn that lasts a lifetime.

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ASPAM Schools are educational instituitions of G P Global Group and a legacy of ASPAM foundation’s CSR initiative that provides practical support, shelter, education and healthcare for the underprivileged to make a difference in the society.

Nestling Montessori School builds its programme on the premise that each child is a unique individual with a definite growth and developmental pattern.

At Stimulus, a foundation of strong values and knowledge is provided to every student, which help them spread their wings and soar high. Stimulus provides a wonderful learning environment and a great sense of openness.

Our pedagogy is a blend of Montessori and Playway Method. We understand that early education is the most crucial part of the child’s development. Our methodology is combines the vivid modules of social, linguistic, play and learn, logic and problem solving, motor and behavioral skills.

Nestling School builds its program on the premise that each child is a unique individual with a definite growth and developmental pattern. We are committed to the belief that early childhood education is vitally important to our children’s future.

Little Pearls Playschool is not just about Child's development but also taking the entire family as a whole to the next platform of understanding.

At Gunjan Playschool competence in language, reading, mathematics, science and technology is developed systematically.

Amiown, Amity’s caring preschool, was founded in 2005. Today, Amiown schools are present in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Hyderabad. Several more branches, across the nation, will be coming up in the near future.

At Rayz International Preschool, we explore the world we live in through the eyes of our children, and learning is enriched through their inquisitiveness and our unrelenting focus on the world as our classroom.

Our objective is to establish high quality preschools with the aim of introducing a structured learning process through a research based international curriculum that is relevant to the current times.

Children learn as they play. Most importantly while playing they learn how to learn. Taking this philosophy ahead, we, at Niño & Niña have carefully designed our curriculum emphasizing on free play, role plays etc at each level. We believe that play is the highest form of research. At Niño & Niña we provide an environment that ensures your child gets the perfect impressions.

White Canvas Preschool bestows an open environment that discerns the child’s innate treasure and encourages him/her to discover the real world in a natural and interactive manner leading to the holistic development of the child.

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Top Franchise Preschools of India are…

Laying the foundation of children’s career, the relatively new phenomenon of preschools, where tiny-tots are introduced to the concept of learning, is playing a crucial role in the education world.

Due to their vast presence and consistently rising number, it makes an interesting study to explore afterall what makes a few the finest among the rest.

Top 5 National Preschool Chains of India

A pioneer in ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education), we are the largest preschool chain in Asia. With an incredible network of more than 1900+ centers in over 750+ cities, we are committed to spearheading child development across the nation. Having touched the lives of more than 9, 00,000 children in India, Kidzee, a decade on, remains focused on nurturing the ‘unique potential’ in every child.

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At EuroKids Preschool, we are redefining early child care and education for over 17 years with focus on providing a fun-based learning environment.

This 360-degree engagement makes EuroKids Kindergarten Your Child’s Second Home! Eurokids has spread.

Bachpan Play School instills a spirit of joy and fervour in children for learning new things and outshine in the competitive world.

Being one of the most renowned nursery schools, Bachpan has all that a growing toddler needs to complete his early education!

Bachpan Preschool has a network of 1100+ branches across the nation.

Shemrock is one of India’s 1st playschool chains, which is credited with revolutionising the concept of early childhood education since 1989, by pioneering a vibrant and child-friendly system of learning.

Today, with more than 4,00,000 children already having received the foundation of success from its 550+ branches, Shemrock, the award winning school chain, is a leader in preschool education and is a brand to reckon with.

Sanfort – The U. K. Concept Preschool Chain is a brain child of husband-wife duo Dr. S. K. Rathor & Mrs. Kavita Rathor.

With more than 10 years of rich experience in the field of preschool education they launched their school brand ‘Sanfort’ in December, 2009.

So far, Sanfort has nurtured over 80,000 kids and is targeting to reach 500 schools by the financial year 2020.

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The world education system is going through a major disruption with the growing dominance of technological innovations. Especially, India, which is all set to witness a transformation in the education system with the roll out of New Education Policy, soon. In this scenario, the 14th edition of World Education Summit, Delhi, served as a mega

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platform to evoke discussions and deliberations among the key stakeholders on similar lines.

Held on 9-10 August, 2019, in the national capital, the summit endeavoured to bring together top decision-makers and on-the-ground practitioners to share insights and

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collaborate to rethink and figure out a variety of emerging opportunities in the education landscape at present and in future.

Besides, the World Education Summit, Delhi, also witnessed an impressive congregation and participation from the Indian education sector as well. Key decision-makers including education ministers, top government officials, college/ university directors and vice-chancellors, school owners and principals leveraged the platform to analyse, understand, and share their vision and modern-day practices to bring improvement in the education landscape.

The first day of the summit was inaugurated by Thokchom Radheshyam, Hon’ble Minister for Education Labour and Employment, Government of Manipur in the presence of other eminent dignitaries. On this occasion, the special edition of digitalLEARNING magazine – ‘Game Changers in Education’ was also launched.

Bhanwar Singh Bhati, Hon’ble Minister of Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan and Temjen Imna Along, Hon’ble Minister of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Nagaland performed the lamp lighting ceremony to commence the second day of the summit.

All the three ministers are responsible for transformation of their respective state-wide spectrum of education sector spanning early learning, school, higher education, and skill and vocational training institutes.

The other notable policymakers who participated in the summit included: Dr Subodh Agarwal, Additional Chief Secretary, Industries, Government of Rajasthan; Anand Kishor, Chairman, Bihar State Examination Board, Government of Bihar; Dr A Ashok, Commissioner, Intermediate Education, Government of Telengana; Vaibhav Galriya, Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan; Pradeep Kumar Borad, Commisioner, College Education & School Education, Special Secretary, Higher Education & Sanskrit Education, Government of Rajasthan; Dr Chithung Mary Thomas, Secretary, Borad of Secondary Education, Government of Manipur; Nanda Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Education Department, Government of Manipur; Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE; Prof Alok Prakash Mittal, Member Secretary, AICTE; Bishwajit Kumar Singh, Commissioner, NVS; Dr Biswajit Saha, Director (Vocational Education), CBSE; Major Harsh Kumar, Secretary, NCERT;

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The summit witnessed participation from Embassy of Myanmar and Embassy of the Argentine Republic as the country partners.

Government of Uttarakhand; Government of Manipur; Government of Nagaland, Government of Telangana, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE); Gujarat Skill Development Mission; Assam Higher Secondary Education Council; Board of Secondary Education Manipur; Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB); and Atal Innovation Mission were among the Government Supporting Partners.

Corporates like Godrej as Furniture Partner; The Ultimate Knowledge as Digital Learning Partner; Coursera as Skill Development Partner; ACER as Technolgy Partner; Adobe as Digital Partner; and Global Channel Resources (GCR) as IoT Partner supported the educational conference, making it a great success.

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The summit witnessed the congregration of a galaxy of edu-leaders from different parts of the world, deliberating upon the latest policies, innovations, practices, strategies and challenges of the global educational landscape.

Abid Hussain, Director, Directorate of Madrasah Education, Government of West Bengal.

The two-day conference had two parallel sections: School Education and Higher Education. The school education section witnessed various brainstorming sessions including: Draft New Education Policy; Need of Innovation to Impart Quality School Education; Incremental Innovation in Education; Physical and Mental Well Being of Teachers and Students; Vocational and Skill Development; Role of Early Childhood Educators; Future Paradigms of Learning in Globally Acclaimed Schools; Emerging Content Delivery Mechanisms and much more.

Similarly, the Higher Education section witnessed sessions on Scope of Automation in Enrolment; Importance of PPP model; Nurturing Industry-ready Workforce; Role of Assessment, Accreditation, Evaluation and Quality; Importance of MOOCs, Distance Education, E-Learning, and Blended Learning; Importance of Global Collaborations; Creating a Framework for Developing a Research-ready Institution and many more.

During the summit, two government roundtables were also organised. Day 1 witnessed the roundtable with Government of Manipur and Government of India officials. On Day 2, it was with Government of Rajasthan and Government of Nagaland along with key government officials from both the states.

Besides, the industry presentations during the summit highlighted the scope of technology and its effects in the education sector and more participation of corporate for betterment of education landscape. digitalLEARNING magazine brings to you the glimpses of the Elets 14th World Education Summit, Delhi:

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Bhanwar Singh Bhati Hon’ble Minister of Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan We need to impart education which can provide employment opportunities to students in the future. The recent budget of Rajasthan presented by CM Ashok Singh Gehlot was dedicated to education, especially Higher Education. To promote education in the State, the government has opened 45 new colleges and now we can boast that not a single subdivision in the state is without a college. We have also opened 10 “Balika Mahavidyalaya� to boost girl education in the state.

Besides, the Government of Rajasthan is also focusing on enhancing the agriculture scenario in the state; helping the farmers in yielding better crops in less expenditure. India, being an agricultural-economy, there is an urgent need to introducing new universities, new curriculum, technologies and innovations. In this budget, we have announced 5 new agriculture colleges in the state that already boasts of 18 universities in government sector, 10 deemed universities and 51 private universities.

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Thokchom Radheshyam

Temjen Imna Along

Hon’ble Minister for Education, Labour & Employment, Government of Manipur

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

The North-Eastern part of the country is also an integral part of India. Unlike before, the state of insurgency is long gone from north-east and there is no law and order problem anymore. I request the education fraternity to come and do some hand-holding, mentoring and investment and let us develop north-east like the rest of the country.

Talking about the education system today, we, as teachers and parents have stopped listening to our children. It has become a one way traffic system. We are not been able to make our children innovative and creative. Technology cannot replace teachers but technology in hands of great teachers can transform the world. The purpose of education should be to ignite and to make students curious.

It is very rare to even comprehend the trajectory at which our country India is growing today. The growth of the country is always much dependent on the education level of the countrymen. Today, we are thinking about Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and all other advanced technologies but we as a nation should also ensure that all these programms are made accessible, affordable understandable and broken down to the most basic places of this country.

I urge the ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development and AICTE to ponder upon while making policies towards the North-east, the region which is facing a quantum problem of geography and needs. The policy drafted for north-east should be separate from the policy of mainland India, because it is unfair to compare the institutions in Delhi, Chennai, Rajasthan or Punjab with the handful we have, somehow, in the north-east region.

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Anand Kishor

Additional Chief Secretary, Industries, Government of Rajasthan

Chairman, Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), Government of Bihar

What we are learning is getting obsolete by the time we master it because changes are happening so fast. We have brought up the Gurukul system, where the students went and lived with the teachers. With the advent of Britishers, the industrial revolution happened and we followed the assembly line system and made boxes called – classrooms, where teachers came, taught the lesson and went back home.

Then the culture of home tuitions came, where teachers went to students home, and now with online teaching platforms neither teacher nor students need to know each other.

Students don’t need knowledge today, but they need to have the ability, the skills to survive in the world which is changing so fast.

I took over as BSEB Chairman few years ago when the infamous topper scam took place. Though, it was one of the turning points because that brought to knowledge some of the malpractices existing in the state examination board. It led to identification and initiation of so many reforms that helped in transforming BSEB- from being among the low performing boards to becoming the first board in the country to declare results this year.

We did it in a record time of 28 days, despite conducting the examinations along with other state boards. It is a rare feat considering the huge volumes that we deal with - 17 lakh students appear for matriculation examination and 13 lakh appear for intermediate examination every year.

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Vaibhav Galriya

Secretary & Commissioner, Board of Intermediate Education, Government of Telangana

Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan

Technology seems to provide a very natural solution to many of our challenges and problems. IT could be used to enhance the quality of governance, quality of services given to students, colleges and also as a platform of learning. In Telangana, we have empowered the students with mobile application integration – that allows them to download their certificates on mobile along with 15 other types of services. We have eliminated corruption, red tapism, extra expenditure, and provide the services in a time-bound manner. For this, we have been awarded the Order of Merit in SKOCH under smart governance category.

Education is the key factor that determines how a country is going to progress in the next 30-40-50 years.

Rajasthan has 252 government colleges and additional 50 colleges have been declared by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in this year’s budget, taking the figure to 300. These colleges have more than 4 lakh students, out of which 51% are girls and 49% are boys. Besides, we have 1600 private colleges, thanks to the liberal policy of the state that allows the private players to come up. In fact, we allow new colleges to come up even on a land which is not even converted by the appropriate local authority.

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Commissioner, College Education & School Education, Special Secretary, Higher Education & Sanskrit Education, Government of Rajasthan In Rajasthan, our keen focus is on improving the quality of school and higher education, which is a big challenge. Even after 70 years of independence, there are a lot of areas which needs to be worked upon. Talking about school education, it revolves around a triangle - Students, Teachers and Parents, and that’s what we are focusing on in the state of Rajasthan.

For skill development, we have started ‘Bal Sewa Programme’, a cultural program held every Saturday in school premises. We have taken this programme to communities and more than 65,000 schools and 50 Lakh students have participated in this.

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The Board of Secondary Education was bifurcated from the Assam Board in 1972. Since then, as an independent state board, it has been functioning trying to bring the levels of education at par with its counterparts in other states of India. Now we are faced with the challenge of going global.

It is a sad reality that north-east region of the country hasn’t got enough attention. However, the initiatives of Modi government have put the spotlight back to northeast region of the country. With the look-east policy and act-east policy, so many priorities have been assigned to north-east.

Member Secretary, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

Today, education is at your doorstep, whether you reside in remote areas of North-east, Jammu Kashmir or any other rural areas; thanks to the technological empowerment. One of the significant things MHRD has done through AICTE is starting a MOOCS platform called – SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), a platform for self learning. Today, there are more than 2700 courses offered with more than 30 lakh students on board. In fact, more than 120 countries are using this platform at present.

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Prof Alok Prakash Mittal

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In the last 15-20 years, a lot of technical institutions have started but the quality is not in tune with the global level. At AICTE, we are striving hard to make sure our institutions compete at the global level in terms of technical education and I am pleased to say that we are achieving our target to some extent. Our events like ‘Smart India Hackathon’ and International Smart Hackathon have gained a lot of success in terms of attracting young students who have given some excellent ideas to solve the problems faced by ministries and industries.

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Bishwajit Kumar Singh

Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra

Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS)

Co-founder and Chancellor, Shobhit University Shobhit University focuses on creation of knowledge, integration of knowledge and simulation of knowledge.

We have two universities in UP, and the purpose of both universities is to create something purposeful for the society.

To build the nation, we have to understand the ecosystem and the requirements of the area where those universities are to be built. We stopped our placement cell, and decided to establish SEIZ, Skill, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Zone, as this is the need of the hour. Let us come together. It is not a race to be no. 1. It is a race to have an impact.

Navoadya Vidyalaya Samiti caters to the most disadvantaged section of the society, i.e. SC/ST/OBC, girls and poor talent living in remote areas of the country. At present, we have 3 lakh students living in different hostels in different parts of the country. There are around 1.25 lakh girl students, so it is a major challenge to maintain the campus with this kind of gender ratio.

The admission is strictly on the basis of merit and for this we conduct the examination with the help of CBSE. Last year, around 31 lakh students of Class 5 registered and 22 Lakh appeared for the examination. Out of which 45,000 students were selected for admission.

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Major Harsh Kumar

Director (Vocational Education), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

Secretary, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

In the context of Draft NEP, there are certain segments which are nicely covered but there are certain challenges as well, on which we need to voice over together for the holistic growth of education in this country. At present, we are conducting examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 of only 5-6 subjects but in draft NEP there are 24 compulsory subjects yearly marked.

So, all school leaders, state boards representatives, education ministers, education stakeholders need to introspect whether we are able to face this challenge from 2020 or not. It’s high time to ponder upon, whether we can implement the NEP framework considering the current and the future scenario of education in country.

In the present education system, pedagogies are changing everyday but our ancient Gurukul system is still relevant today. But unfortunately, we ourselves have left behind our tradition and culture and thus can’t expect our children to possess those values. Talking about the Draft New Education Policy, this is the first time that Government is asking for suggestions. I request all the educationists to kindly share their ideas, suggestions and innovations for the better education system.

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Rolee Agarwal

Director, Directorate of Madrasah Education, Government of West Bengal

Commissioner of Income Tax, Jaipur, Government of Rajasthan

The Madrasah education system in West Bengal is similar to the regular school system, where we teach all the same subjects - English as the second language and Bengali/Urdu as the first language. We have physical science, life science, mathematics, geography, history; the only difference between a madrasa and a regular school is that we teach an extra subject, i.e, Arabic as a foreign language.

We have 1300 madrasas under our directorate, mostly in Bengali medium and few in Urdu medium. Interestingly, 6570% of our students are girls with zero dropout-rate in the last 5 years. We have already introduced ICT and pedagogy plus we also have smart class system operational.

I have been attending Gita classes for a while and I chanced upon this discovery that the learning of the religious novel is similar to what we see in our present day bollywood movies. ‘Gita Ki Kahani – Bollywood ki Jubaani’ – is a novel and embarking experiment through which I want to showcase the world that both Gita and Bollywood are strangely interconnected.

For example: Gita says our life is unmanifest in the beginning, manifests in the middle and again unmanifests in the end.

Bollywood song ‘Ek dhundh se aana hai ek dhundh me jaana hai’ means exactly the same.

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Dr V K Verma

Secretary, Assam Higher Sec. Education Council, Government of Assam

Director, Core Research Group, Rabindranath Tagore University

In today’s time everybody wants quality materials, especially the everyday necessities like medicine, food, clothes or even a house. Likewise, quality education is also a significant part of our lives. The primary responsibility of Assam Higher School Education Council is conducting the examination in the state. Besides, we also supervise the schools and develop the curriculum for both government and private schools. All this while, the demand for quality education is something that we have been hearing from parents and society. World Education Summit is a great platform for knowledge exchange, and I am looking forward to implement the key outcomes from the summit, in our state.

Higher Education can take any nation forward in terms of economic and industrial development. The New Education Policy, to be introduced by the government, aims to develop India’s higher education system at par with the global standard.

Rabindranath Tagore University - the first private university in Madhya Pradesh, was also built on similar aspirations. We have built this university on five pillars – liberal & innovative curriculum, skill development & research orientation, motivate for innovation and entrepreneurship, spirit of service & character building, and all-round development of students.

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INDUSTRY PRESentation Jacky Herman Regional Sales Manager- Australia, Matific

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Building the STEM capabilities of the nation should be the primary concern today. Social and economic demands require school students to possess excellent mathematical skills. In India, around 1.2 million students are going to pursue engineering and they will require a higher level of Mathematics that needs to start at an early age. At Matific, the ultimate focus is mathematical thinking and not the scores.

This will elevate the mathematical anxiety that children are experiencing globally. Today, children have high expectations from technology as it can offer much more than just questions and answers.

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Regional Director, Asia, i-Graduate, Malaysia It is important to redefine the student experience as contented students become ambassadors for their university and encourage others to apply. Over the next few months, we will be selecting some of the key institutions of India so that we can establish that first Indian benchmark. Our emphasis is not about ranking, but a benchmark in process that signifies how your institution performs against other institutions. A student’s experience is a key part for our institutions. We must listento our students and learn from their views, to move into a successful future.

Tarun Bhalla STEAM is a worldwide trend that everybody is talking about.

It is very important because 80% of jobs that are going to come in the domain of STEM. By sheer nature, these fields of education tend to be more engaging than other subjects. With more engagement comes better retention. In today’s time, STEM Learning is very inclusive in nature as it looks after the 4Cs: collaboration, critical thinking, complex problem solving and communication. With STEM Learning, employment opportunities are also on the rise, with employees getting paid more.

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With various sources of information like internet, books and newspapers, having their own advantages, there are disadvantages as well. With newspapers, the language and the content may not be appropriate for all the readers. Books on the other hand, provide information which was scripted at one point of time with no secondary research. This is where The Ultimate Knowledge jumps in with authentic and precise content which is interactive and innovative at the same time.

Not all schools have the infrastructure to take care of online education. We have something for every school in this country.

The kind of content that we have and the research that has gone behind, we want no school to be left behind.

Vineet J Thomas Sr Manager - Business Development, Entab Infotech Pvt Ltd Evolution of technology in schools have effected in various aspects. From automated bells and online registrations to online fee payments, it is indeed a blessing for parents and their children. Earlier, everything was dependent on the school management. Today, with the use of an ERP system, one can contribute maximum towards the development of the school. The operations have become easy, accessible and swift with systems being developed, based on the needs and requirements of the school. We have grown to a network of 1300+ schools where the needs of every school is inculcated in our software, thus making communication easy and beneficial for the schools.

Supreeth Nagaraju Head – Education, Digital Media, Adobe, India & South Asia Today is an era where connected consumers and data explosions and digital disruptions are ahead in the game. The technological platforms with organisations that create this are irrelevant. To make use of these technology platforms to deliver meaningful experiences, is the real deal today. It is noteworthy how an academic institution caters to the current need of the experiential wave. The need of the hour is to switch gears really fast, gear up for a major difference in a student’s career at large in an experiential way.

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INDUSTRY PRESentation Raghav Gupta Director India & APAC, Coursera

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Out of 40 million people who are learning on Coursera, 4 million are from India and of those 4 million, around 5 lakh are students from colleges and universities. On other hand, 160 of the top universities and about 30 leading technological companies are educators on the Coursera platform. Three years ago, we launched a platform called ‘Coursera for Business’ where companies are playing an active role in developing their employees. Today, we work with 1900 companies, universities and governments who are actively bringing Coursera to their constituents. Education needs to be aligned more and more with job-ready skills.

Shraddha Shah Chief Manager Marketing (Education), Godrej Interio A lot of students are not aware that the pain that they are experiencing is on the account of incorrect postures they are adapting while using the gadgets or because they are using these gadgets excessively. We need to encourage active lifestyle. In colleges, instead of having one classroom, we should have multiple collaborative lounges where students can come sit and learn. Air quality can also be improved. We can make space for nature and green projects in classrooms.

These are small things we can look into when we are creating spaces.

Hemant Sahal CEO, CollPoll We did a survey of top universities and we understood the most critical requirement of the stakeholders was to have a platform where they could communicate and collaborate with each other. We have spent six years building CollPoll and we aim to expand this platform across all universities. We provide a cross platform technology which is available on all the three platforms, android, IOS, and web. It can be accessed anywhere anytime access with scalable cloud servers so that you do not have to invest any infrastructure.

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Vivek Iyer Vice President- Asia Pacific, Campus Management International Pvt Ltd

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A lot of mundane activities of doing assessments are being taken out so that faculty can focus on their core job of teaching.

Something like plagiarism detection in regard to research papers, people plagiarizing stuff from other languages, is now impossible; thanks to AR. Campus Management is a platform that gives you a holistic view of your organization. We manage end-to-end operations of your institute or university, ranging from student admission, work force development, finance planning, assets, inventory, academics planning, budgeting, HR, and data governance.

Sameer Deodhar CEO, LaundroMINT 6.1 million students in India live in hostels, and that is only 17% of total count of students in India. Imagine the amount of wastage of water and electricity just because students do not have right facilities. Students waste their valuable time which actually they should put in studying rather than washing clothes, we believe. At present, we are already handling the laundry of 5000+ students on daily basis. We have a very organized model. We as LaundroMINT brand, are aiming to solve the issue of laundry from students’ life.

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President & CEO, Times Professional Learning

We are one of the fastest growing companies in the field of skilling, vocational, professional and executive education.

Across disciplines such as banking, analytics, digital marketing, we span the entire gamut of employable skill set that our students need. We form a bridge between higher education and employability. Also we have partnered with the central and state governments who work with National Skill Development Council (NSDC).

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INDUSTRY PRESentation Devesh Rakhecha Co-founder, Yearbook Canvas

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In India, Yearbook is a very new concept. Only the best of the institutes like IIMs, IITs are doing it. Yearbooks help the colleges to display their infrastructure and capture their memories. It is an app based platform, we give the access to the students who can upload their pictures. The Yearbook is a collaborative activity where all the teachers, faculties create their memories promoting the visibility of the school or college, alumni connection and student networking.

Nilesh Patel Co-founder & CEO, Lead Squared The new age generation or the new people who are coming into the ecosystem now have a different thinking and are able to use available tech and tools to drive new way to acquire customers. The aspiration to rise and inspiration to succeed is what we can learn from EdTech firms. If the people who are using our products or technology are not feeling empowered using it, then the right benefit for which they have spent money to buy the technology is not fructified. LeadSquared is making sure the counselors and students are given the tools and technology so they can operate efficiently.

Anil Arora CEO, iCalibrator Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Technology does bring disruption but these disruptions bring growth and learning opportunities. If we start from 1.0, we see that 1.0 transformed to 2.0 with the invention of printing press where information increased with the dissemination of ideas from books. Credit driven mass and teaching mechanisms also developed at that point of time. Today, the requirement of 4.0 is to teach students to take up future leadership jobs. The current innovations are transforming the higher education landscape and filling the gaps in the present education system.

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Our mission statement is that we break the barrier between human and technology. Globally we see the schools have become paperless, students carry laptop, tablets or they have a digital classroom. Most of the digital classroom are supported

by Acer. The first virtual classroom project happened in Acer was ‘The Tamil Nadu ICT’ in terms of connecting 4000 schools, IT Guwahati HPC (High Performance Computing) which we are running for past four years, are some of the technology we bring to education sector.

Minal Anand CEO, GuruQ Not all students have the same learning capabilities, some students may not be able to learn in a classroom setting and may need one-on-one guidance, some require additional help to improve their scores, some students may need extra support to teach them how to handle pressure and to motivate them to reach their goals. Due to high demand for tutors and additional help, the tutoring industry in India is valued at Rs 2,80,000 Crores and a growth rate of 35% year-on-year. 90% of students undergo private tutoring in metro cities these days. GuruQ addresses all the problems of tutoring and provides tutors for all study areas, whether it is school education, competitive exams, study abroad or language learning. GuruQ’s tutors are on boarded after a 5-step registration process so the parents are fully assured of the safety of their children when leaving them with the tutor.

Kaarthi Subramanian Deputy General Manager – Sales, Karadi Path Education Company Pvt Ltd Karadi Path is an offshoot of Karadi Tales, an international children’s book publishing house started in the year 1996 pioneering in audio books and picture books. As we grew popular, schools started using our material as a language development tool, both formally and informally. Language learning cannot follow a logical approach, it is 100% intuitive and immersive. Karadi Path offers an English rich environment to the students in the classrooms, and once you immerse as an individual in this environment and provide them verbal and non-verbal stimuli, it automatically leads to prediction, discovery and transference.

We are working with more than 3,000 schools across the country. We are present in elite of the elite schools, tribal schools, vernacular medium schools.

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INDUSTRY PRESentation Ramananda S Vice President – Sales, Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd

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In the K-12 ecosystem, we cater to all the segments, be it the CBSE or ICSE board, but most importantly the international boards and also, we are working very closely with some state boards. Today we work with more than 90,000 schools across the country. From being a traditional publishing house to a service provider that is now gearing up to offer the portfolio of a digital service provider. As Pearson, we are future ready with innovation at the core.

Vibha Mahajan Vice President – India, Matific Matific is an Australian company which is into online gamifying math learning. We are looking at building and enhancing numeracy skills of children in the age group of 5 to 12 in the country. At this point of time, we are in 50 countries, catering to 30 languages. Also, we partnered with the government of Tamil Nadu for one of the biggest pilot projects in India. As part of the pilot project, we had 150 schools, 21,000 students and Matific trained 400+ teachers on our platform. 21,000 students in two months played about seven lakh games. After two months of the project, we saw that the overall math result of the children improved by 28% in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Vamsee Koneru Co-Founder & CEO, Yardstick Educational Initiatives At Yardstick, we try to promote the curiosity in the students to apply the knowledge of what they have learned in the classroom. The vision of Yardstick is to kindle the instinct of genius amongst them to do as many real life applications of their knowledge. We work on two basic areas, one is Handson-Learning which is YALP, and second is Assessments-forLearning (LITMUS) which is more of an assessment for learning and remediation platform for teachers. We understand the syllabus which the school is using, it might be CBSE, ICSE, and we try to customize the activities modules to meet the needs of the students.

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In most schools in India, one of the biggest challenges that we face today is the English language itself. We want children to be articulate and confident users of English not just for enhanced communication skill but we believe that English is extremely important for learning to take place. Having a smart board in the classroom is not necessarily technology. So, we are looking at how pedagogy can be used in an innovative manner. We use actions, objects, visuals, stories and also have a year-long module that can be implemented in schools to create a complete language immersion in English for children.

Yashendra Mishra Regional Manager- North, Global Channel Resources Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of industry size, has a market of $4.8 billion and it is expected to grow almost $11.3 billion by 2023. Speaking of growth, schools adopting smart classrooms in terms of million units, it is expected to grow by 15%. We, in Delhi-NCR are very much concerned about the safety of the children in the schools. For that, we have a technology called ‘campus tracking’ wherein for example, if the child is spending more than 10 minutes in the washroom, the school administrator will get an alarm to check on the child. If we talk about safety or what we impart to students, we have smart classroom, smart campus, smart learning or smart process. In terms of classrooms, we have interactive display boards, interactive classroom computers, lecture recording and broadcast.

Naveen Goyal

Founder and CEO, NoPaperForms NoPaperForms have become a buzzword in universities and campuses in the last 2 years. We have come a long way from a scattered to a comprehensive approach. 85% institutions are using scattered or offline solutions. Different departments are using different solutions to solve their problems. This means heavy dependency on paper forms which means a larger impact across all stakeholders and it becomes difficult to predict end plan enrollments. It is a matter of concern as to how technology is shaping enrollment management in the country.

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Panel Discussion: Pre Inaugural Session: ‘Draft New Education Policy’: Major reforms required to create new and forward looking vision for India’s School Education System Panelists (L-R): R K Sharma, Managing Director, Rainbow Academic Centre For Excellence, Haldwani, Uttarakhand; Dr Pranavi Luthra, Principal, MRV International School, New Delhi; C V Singh, Principal, Rawal International School, Faridabad, Haryana; K Dilip, Principal, CMCL School, Lumshnong, Meghalaya; Surbhi Arora, Director, Saint Bachanpuri International School, Chandigarh; Dr Haleema Sadia, Delhi Private School, Ajman, UAE.

Panel Discussion: ‘Draft New Education Policy’: School Educators’ Perspective Panelists (L-R): Dr S K Rathor, Chairman & Managing Director, Sanfort Group of Schools; Roshan Gandhi, Director of Strategy, City Montessori Schools; Anirudh Gupta, CEO, DCM Group of Schools; Kanak Gupta, Director, Seth MR Jaipuria Schools; Raghav Podar, Chairman, Podar Education; Reekrit Serai, Managing Director, Satluj Group of Schools; Pritam Agarwal, Founder, Riverstone Group of Schools; Dr Chandrashekhar DP, CEO – Jain Group of Institutions (JGI Schools)

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Panel Discussion: Need of Innovation to Impart Quality School Education in India Panelists (L-R): Kamal Jyoti Gogoi, Secretary, Assam Higher Sec. Educational Council, Government of Assam; Dr Indu Khetarpal, Principal, Salwan Public School, Rajendra Nagar, Delhi; Ganesh Sharma, Principal, Global Indian International School Noida, Uttar Pradesh; Mona Mehdi, Principal, Jain Heritage, a Cambridge School, Hyderabad; Manju Gupta, Principal, Kothari International School, Delhi; Anish K Joy, Director, Poornodaya Vidyanikethan, Kuravilangad; Sanjeev Mehtani, Country Manager – Sales, Acer; Upasana Bhattacharya, Head – Curriculum & Training, The Infinity School, Noida Extension; Sanjay Kumar Mallick, Principal, Sant Nandlal Smriti Vidya Mandir, Ghatsila

Panel Discussion: Role of Early Childhood Educators in Developing a Healthier, Safer and Hygienic Learning Environment Panelists (L-R): Ramananda S, Vice President – Sales, Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.; Manjit Legha, Director, Academics & Training, Little Millenium Preschool; Shalini Jaiswal, Director – Academics, Training & Teachers, Maple Bear Education Pvt. Ltd.; Sonal Ahuja, Educational Alchemist, Shri Ram Foundation Preschool; Sneha Rathor, CEO – Academics & Innovations, Sanfort Group of Schools; Sunita Jain, Director – Curriculum and Business Operation, Hello Kids; Satnam Sandhu, Founder/Director, Fun Rangers Preschools; Mansi Aggarwal, Director, Scottish Early Years; Sai Kumari, Principal, Jain Heritage Cambridge School, Hyderabad

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Panel Discussion: Critical need for Incremental Innovation in Education. India’s Opportunity to Mobilise Policy and Practice for Rapid School Improvement Panelists (L-R): Dr Raavee Tripathi, Principal, Sumitra Modern School, Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh; Priyanka Bhatkoti, Principal, Maxfort School Dwarka, New Delhi; Divya Bhatia, Principal, Amity International School, Saket, New Delhi; Ralf Brenner, Industry Professional, Committee for Happiness, US; Latchoumy Mohan, Principal, Vetri Vikaas Public School, Rasipuram, Tamil Nadu; Rafeeque Ahmed, Principal, Tarbiyah Cambridge International School, Kolkata, West Bengal; Surinder Arora, Principal, B K Senior Secondary Public School, Ajmer, Rajasthan; Padmavathi S, Vice Principal, Chennai Public School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Panel Discussion: Importance of Physical and Mental Well Being of Teachers and Students in Schools Panelists (L-R): Neeta Singh, Principal, Little Wings School, Ranchi, Jharkand; Rajini Chitra, Academic Director, Pollocks Intelli School, Vishakhapatnam; Geeta Varshneya, Principal- Director, Shri Ram Global School, Greater Noida; Dr Jayashree Nair, Dy Head- Academics, Futuristic Edu Initiatives, Hyderabad; Dr Saleema Chaudhary, Principal, Cosmos Castle International School, Green Campus, Ahmedabad; Sangeeta Kapoor, Principal, The Infinity School, Noida Extension; Manas Mohanty, Principal, Kiddy Kids Premium School, Orissa

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Panel Discussion: : (Pre Opening Session): Vocational and Skill Development in Schools and Pathway to Higher Education Panelists (L-R): Dr Shekharjyoti Seal, Principal, Akshara Global Gurukul, Numaligarh, Assam; S K Saxena, Principal, Rukmani Devi Jaipuria Public School, Delhi; Prof Asif Sheikh, Principal, Cambridge High International School, Shrirampur; Reeta Jha, Principal, NIMS International School, Jaipur; Sarita V Singh, Principal, Rao Prahlad Sr Sec School, Mahendragarh, Haryana; Wasif Ali, Head of Academics, Anglo Senior Secondary School, New Delhi; Dr Tarulata Hairani, Educationist, Ahmedabad, Gujarat; C S Nair, Director – Skills, Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society, Ghaziabad, UP; Dr Suchitra Bhattacharya, Principal, G D Goenka Public School, New Delhi

Panel Discussion: Exploring the Future Paradigms of Learning in Globally Acclaimed Schools Panelists (L-R): Vinesh Menon, Chief Executive Officer Education, Consulting & Skilling Services, Vibgyor Group of Schools; Amit Agarwala, Co-Author, Head- Growth, Stones2Milestones; B Anantha Krishnan, Head Operations, Kalorex Group; Dr Satyabrata Minaketan, Chairman, ODM Educational Group; Sachin Vats, Founder Director, Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad; Aditi Goradia Mehta, Managing Director, Billimoria High School, Panchgani, Maharashtra; Dr Aishah Siddiqua, Director & Principal, Dubai National School, Dubai; Anuradha Sharma, Principal, Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj; Dr Manjit Kaur Makkar, Director-Principal, Guru Govind Singh Public School, Ludhiana; Pramod Mahajan, Principal, Sharjah Indian School, UAE

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Panel Discussion: Emerging Content Delivery Mechanisms: What’s next after Chalk-and-Talk method?

Panelists (L-R): Sapna Sukul, Creative Director, Dalimss Sunbeam School, Varanasi; Karishmma V Mangal, Director & Trustee, Thakur International School, Mumbai; Kavita Bajpai, Director, International School of Thrissur, Kerala; Ashish Bhatnagar, Principal, Shaoxing International School, Zhejiang; Mohammad Imran, Principal, International Indian Public School, Riyadh; Shazia Ahmad, Director, Aryan Presidency School, Bengaluru; Papri Chakraborty, Head of School, Fortune World School, Noida; Arti Chopra, Principal, Amity School, Gurgaon; Jasica Massey, Principal, My School, Lucknow; Diya Badgel, Principal, Birla Open Mind International School, Lucknow; Praveen Sharma, Principal, Jain Heritage, a Cambridge School, Nagpur; Dr Divij Suri, Chairmain, International Delhi Public School, Kathua, J&K; Santosh Kumar, Principal, The Jain International School, Aurangabad; Suchita Malakar, Principal, Podar International School, Powai, Mumbai; Vijayalaxmi Manerikar, Director, Global Vision Group of Schools, Nashik, Maharashtra; Dr Priyanka Mehta, Director Principal, Sarvottam International School, Greater Noida

Panel Discussion: Role of Teachers and Teaching Methods in Creating an Effective Pedagogical Environment (Part 1) Panelists (L-R): Jasmin Kumar, Vice- Chairperson, Rayz International Preschool, Noida; Dr Pallavi Arora, Assistant Professor, DIPS, University of Jammu; Vandana Seth, Vice Principal, Sanfort World School, Greater Noida; Sanjum Sethi, Incharge, Venkateshwar International School, Sec-10, Dwarka; Poonam Arora, Principal, Indraprastha Global School, Noida; A P Sharma, Principal, Birla Public School, Doha, Qatar; Dr Bogusia Matusiak Barley, Director, Gulf Education Services, Dubai; Shilpa Mahajan, Owner, Shubh Memorial International School, Aknoor, J&K; Mahendra Pratap, Director, Rose Mary Public School, Jodhpur, Rajasthan; Greg Williams, Head Teacher, Jewellery Quarter Academy, UK; Babita Dogra, Principal, PAN World School, Chandigarg, Punjab; Dr Lalita Kothiya, Principal, Hill Grove School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand; Gautami Varun, Coordinator, Chennai Public School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu; Nidhi Singh, Principal, Rose Mary Public School, Jodhpur, Rajasthan; Amit Dhawan, Founder & Managing Director, Enlighten Happy School, Punjab; Harshit Bansal, Director, Abhinav Group of Schools, New Delhi

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Panel Discussion: Role of Teachers and Teaching Methods in Creating an Effective Pedagogical Environment (Part 2) Panelists (L-R): Simrat Kaur, Principal, Brilliance World School, Pune, Maharashtra; Brahmjot Kaur, Chief Administrator, Avadh Collegiate, Lucknow; Major Harsh Kumar, Secretary, NCERT; Ganesh Tiwari, Dean – Activities, Genesis Global School, Noida; Jatinder Kaur, Principal, Doon International School, Karnal, Haryana

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Panel Discussion: Pre Inaugural Session: ‘Draft New Education Policy’: Major reforms required to create new and forward looking vision for India’s Higher Education System Panelists (L-R): Dr Vikas Singh, Executive Director, ITS The Education Group, Uttar Pradesh; Rahul Noel Ambati, Academic Director, Vidya Degree College, Palamuru University, Telangana; H S Rawat, Group Head, HRIT, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh; Ajay Prakash Shrivastava, Chancellor, Maharishi University of Information Technology, Uttar Pradesh; Dr J Janet, Principal, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; Amritha Basanth, Director, UKF College of Engg. & Technology, Kollam, Kerala

Panel Discussion: Scope of Automation in Enrolment (Powered by NoPaperForms) Panelists (L-R): Amit Attry, Head – Admissions & Marketing, Jaipuria Institute of Management (Delhi); Prof Manoj Kumar Pandey, Chairperson – Corporate Communications, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida (NCR); Prof (Dr) Vikas Singh, Executive Director, ITS – The Education Group, Greater Noida (NCR); Suraj Sapra, Chief Strategy Officer, NoPaperForms; Jayant Shah, Business Director, Academy of Indian Marketing; Dr Hari Krishna Maram, Vice Chancellor, Universal Digital University, Bangalore; Silky Jain Marwah, Executive Director, Tula’s Institute

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Panel Discussion: Importance of PPP model (Public-Private-Partnership) in Higher, Skill & Technical Education Panelists (L-R): Ashok Verghese, Director – Hindustan Group of Institutions, Chennai; Sudhakar Rao, Director – Branding, ICFAI Group; Nanda Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Education Department, Government of Manipur; Prof A P Mittal, Member Secretary, AICTE; Sahil Aggarwal, CEO & Co-Founder, Rishihood University, Sonipat; Kunwar Vijendra Shekhar, Chancellor, Shobhit University, Meerut; Arindam Das, Director – Corporate Relations, Chitkara University, Chandigarh; K K Pande, Dean, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad; Rajeev Kumar Upadhyay, Director, Hindustan College of Science & Technology, Mathura

Panel Discussion (HR): Education Skills and Employability: Nurturing Industry-ready Workfoce Equipped with 21st Century Skills Panelists (L-R): Lt. Col. Kailash Bansal, Director, AICTE; Dr Prabha Shankar, Director, ASM Group of Institutes; Vivek Aneja, Head L&D – India, Ivy Technologies; Runa Maitra, Founder, People Talent International; Mili Saxena, Head – Talent Management, Azure Power; Anjali Khanna, Vice President HR, The Jaipuria Group of Education; Sheetal Gupta, Head HR Training, Logicash Solutions Pvt Ltd; Dr Vinod K Bhardwaj, Nodal Officer, Innovation & Skill Development Programmes, Department of College Education, Government of Rajasthan

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Panel Discussion: Role of Assessment, Accreditation, Evaluation and Quality Standard in Higher Education Panelists (L-R): Hemant Sahal, Founder & CEO, CollPoll; Prof A M Rawani, Director, NIT, Raipur, Chhattisgarh; Ben Tucker, Partner Minerva, United Kingdom, Dr Bhamidimarri Rao, President, Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar; Prof Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal, Chairman, NIT Meghalaya; Prof Rajat Moona, Director, IIT Bhilai; Dr Biswajit Sarma, Director, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam

Panel Discussion: Importance of Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities in Higher Education Panelists (L-R): Dr Sraban Mukherjee, Director, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad; Dr Manoj Kumar, Principal, DAV Institute of Engineering, Jalandhar; Dr (Col) A Garg, Director, KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad; Dr J S Gujral, Director, Kamal Institute of Higher Education and Advance Technology, New Delhi; Dr Marisha McAuliffe, Director, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata; Dr Sujata Shahi, Vice-Chancellor, IILM Institute for Business & Management, Gurgaon; Dr Manju Gupta, Dean Academics, IMS Noida; Prof Ananya Mehta, Dean, Parul University, Vadodara

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Panel Discussion: (Pre Opening Session): Why Education is the Key to Sustainable Economic Development Globally Panelists (L-R): Dr R Somashekhar, Director, Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology,Ghaziabad; Dr Biswajit Sarma, Director, Gauhati University, Gwahati, Assam; Rana Singh, Vice Chancellor, Sanskriti University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; Dr Aneet Bedi, Director, Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology, Chandigarh; Dr T R Pandey, Director, Ajay Kumar Garg Institute of Management, Ghaziabad; Manoj R Thakkar, Head, International Institute of Management and Technical Studies, Gujarat

Panel Discussion: Importance of MOOCs, Distance Education, E-Learning and Blended Learning in Higher Education Panelists (L-R): R. D. Patidar, Vice Chancellor, O. P. Jindal University, Raigarh; Dr V K Verma, Director, Core Research Group, Rabindranath Tagore University; Prof Prem Vrat, Pro Chancellor, The Northcap University, Gurgaon; Prof Dr Ami Upadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahmedabad; Dr Hari Krishna Maram, Vice Chancellor, Universal Digital University, Bangalore; Raghav Gupta, Director, India & APAC, Coursera; Kamal Bijlani, Director, E-Learning Research Lab, Amrita University, Kollam; Dr Vishal Talwar, Dean, School of Management, BML Munjal University, Haryana

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Panel Discussion (Higher): Importance of Global Collaborations to Build an Effective Education Ecosystem Panelists (L-R): Racquel Shroff, CEO, Global Education Solutions, Australia; Vinod Shukla, Assistant Professor –IT, Amity University, Dubai; Aung Aung Myo Thein, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Myanmar, Myanmar; Dr Thomas E. Mical, Professor & Dean, Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Sonipat; Dr Raghu Raman, Chairman, Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, Coimbatore; Guy Perring, Regional Director, Asia i-Graduate, Malayasia; Siama Qadar, Founding Principal, Institute of Modern Etiquette, Dubai; Satish Modh, Director, Vivekanand Education Society; Arpan Stephen, E-Learning Expert, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain; Dr Thakur S Mulchandani, Director/ Principal, Sunrise English Private School, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Panel Discussion (HR): Bridging Industry-Academia Gap: The Onus Lies with Academia and Industry: Panelists (L-R): Dr Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets Technomedia Pvt. Ltd.; Devinder Narain, Director-Strategy, Shobhit University; Pranay Prakash, Senior Director – HR, Delhivery Pvt. Ltd.; Runa Maitra, Founder, People Talent International; Kashish Kapoor, Head HR, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.; Aparna Dhingra, Head HR & Administration, BMW India; Atul Khosla, Co-founder & Trustee, Shoolini University;

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NOVEMBER 2019

NOVEMBER 2019

Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave

15th World Education Summit

Jaipur

Mumbai

(21-22 November 2019)

(1-2 November 2019)

DECEMBER 2019

FEBRUARY 2020

16th World Education Summit

17th World Education Summit

(7-8 December 2019)

(February 2020)

FEBRUARY 2020

MARCH 2020

Northeast Education Fest

4th Education Conclave

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(March 2020)

Muscat, Oman

Kohima, Nagaland

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