India is blessed with a robust education system since time immemorial and is home to some of the greatest minds in education. It is born out of a rich legacy and rooted in cultural and ethical values education.
A lot has been spoken about the education-skills gap and how education needs to be transformative and not just a tool designed to be a means to an end. While educationists and policy makers have been deliberating on how to bring about this radical change from job ready to future ready education the need for this change and the speed at which it needed to be delivered was suddenly radically accelerated with the disruption caused by the Pandemic.
The pandemic-induced learning crisis and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have made it necessary to re-imagine education and re-align it with the unprecedented technological transformation.
There is no other institution as powerful and impact driven as the school education system. It has the ability to manifest the desired change in educational policies, processes and people.
A few key change indicators in education could be the following -
Priya Rajwade Principal Podar International School, Powai