India Education Summit 2022 Highlights: On Day 1 of the IES 2022, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Wednesday said India’s potential is the 53 crore youth of the country. “If they study to become employees it won’t help, they need to study to become employers,” he said delivering his keynote at second Indian Express Education Summit In New Delhi. The two-day conference dedicated to discussing the future of education was conducted on April 6 and 7.
The two-day summit included discussions on technology intervention in Government education, personalised education, keeping kids safe online, upskilling and reskilling, future of ed-tech and more. Stakeholders from different domains of the education sector discussed on the most pressing issues in the space. Day 1 had a discussion on one year into the National Education Policy, its impacts, and the implementation report. Through the event, participants will also have a chance to learn and implement blended education, meet educators of the new world and interact on a real-time basis with speakers as well as fellow attendees.IES 2022 concludes
This brings us to the end of the India Education Summit 2022. This was the inaugural summit which started on March 6 and concluded today. We had experts from different stages spheres of education domain - from administrators, educators, students, academicians, govt and private players, edtech platforms and investors all queued up to be part of the summit.Need to focus on four important C's of teaching: XIME Bangalore Chairman
"Many pedagogical experts argue that schools should switch to teaching the four C's -- critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. More broadly, schools should downplay technical skills and emphasise general purpose life skills," said J Phillip, Chairman, XIMEEducational institutions need to focus on skill development to ensure employability of students: Kirti Seth
Discussing on ' Road to employability', panelist Kirit Seth, CEO of IT-ITES Sector Skill Council, NASSCOM said, "We're seeing this demand coming up of IoT and digital skills becoming a horizontal so that's really what we will need to do. And the push is going to come to academic institutions. A total of 35% of the graduates are employable in the tech sector. But what do educational institutions need to do about that? They need to first and foremost look at how to improve the foundational skills and the core domain that they provide. Because it's only on top of that, that you can put all these skills and build upon it because you simply cannot do artificial intelligence if you don't understand maths or stats. You can't go into a factory and suddenly start applying IoT or AI when you don't understand mechanical engineering.
To encourage students to pursue skill-based courses, we launched skill university in Delhi. However, the mindset towards these courses needs to change. It might take time, but the Delhi Skill University will help students as well as parents to change their ideology towards these courses and consider them at par with other professional degrees.1700 school dropout students brought back to classes in last one month: Manish Sisodia
"After conducting tracing of students who did not conduct school in either online or offline classes brought back 1700 students back to schools. Most of the students belonged to margianilised families who either shifted back to their village in Covid or could not attend due to parents unawareness. There is still a large number of students who are untraceable and we will find them to bring back to schools," said Manish Sisodia
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