Strong Foundation Leads To Brighter Future

India is emerging as an education hub and providing the best of skills and curriculum to students in order to match the global standard. As the foundation makes the future stronger, the approach of the Indian education sector is to strengthen the whole ecosystem right from kindergarten to higher secondary school. So that, empowered youth will get ample job opportunities and flourish in their respective lives.  

Prof T G Sitharam, Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), touched upon several themes that education should be emphasised on. He stressed redefining the success of a student beyond the marks. Sitharaman also said that deliberation needs to revolve around the amplification of students’ experiential learning. By embracing a more holistic approach, he said that the academic bodies need to bring changes to make the system more flexible for students.  

Sitharam said, “The curriculum should be designed in a pragmatic way to make their learning process full of fun.”

India is standing at the threshold of presenting more wonders to the world and education is an apt way to do that. Talking about the vision of the Indian education sector in the next 25 years, Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, said, “Indian education system has five pillars that are equity, quality, accountability, affordability and excellence.”

He highlighted the significance of artificial intelligence in today’s era but also mentioned that AI will never be able to overshadow human intelligence and therefore education plays its role there to help humans reach their excellence.  

As far as education is concerned, Sahasrabudhe highly stressed strengthening the foundation of learning for a brighter future for students.  

Taking the discussion further, Prof SR Niranjana, Vice Chairman, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, shared many policies and programmes run by the state government to escalate the quality of education provided. Niranjana shared the state government’s plan to concentrate more on higher education.  

He said, “Empowering education depends on the critical democratic process for self and social change. Student-centred programmes for multi-culture, democracy in school and society approach to individual growth.”

Focussing on K-12 education, Vinesh Menon, Co Chair, CII National Education Committee and CEO, Ampersand Group, sees the overwhelming changes coming in the Indian education ambit.  

The academicians were present at the NexGen Edu Summit 2024, organised by ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education in association with BW Education, on 29 April 2024 in Bangalore.