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Simmi Kher, Coordinator-India, Tony Blair Faith Foundation Education for sustainable development should focus on key issues like climate change, disasters reduction, biodiversity, poverty reduction, sustainable consumption, etc. Many years have passed since the United Nations launched the decade of education...
Dr C Chandramohan, Sr Adviser, Planning Commission, Government of India Teachers of good quality can revolutionise education India has a large educational framework of primary and village schools. A total of 95 million children have enrolled in schools. There is a...
Jagpreet Singh, Principal, The Punjab Public School, Patiala, Punjab We cannot go about preparing children, when the teachers themselves are not prepared, and the management is undecided about having a change in the school A young child coming...
Janajit Ray, Principal, Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, Punjab We need a student-centred, skills-based, enquiry-oriented personalised mode of learning During the last few years, the world has witnessed many new advances in Science and Technology. Today’s children are not expected to...
A N Jha, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Free laptops for each child is useless in areas where there is no electricity and internet connectivity A substantial chunk of India’s population comprises of young folks, who are in need...
Dr Mala Mehra, Principal, Hoerner College, Lucknow, UP Train the students, teach them technologies, they will be quicker, they will be faster and they will be with the world To quote an Indian mother staying abroad, “As parents, we...
Shweta Khurana, Head K12 Education, Corporate Affairs Group, South Asia, Intel e-Pedagogy is a concept to which most teachers are still resistant When we look at the implementation of personalised learning in our schools, one thing becomes crystal clear – there...
Avnita Bir, Principal, R N Podar School, Mumbai Teachers, parents and students have to be made equal partners in personalised learning In India, where classrooms have 50 children, providing personalised and differentiated learning is a huge challenge for the...
Neelam Wallia, Principal, Maheshwari Public School Degrees can give you good jobs, but they will not give you life skills The foremost task for any preadolescent is to learn the basic skills necessary to nurture. Unfortunately most of us fail...
Anuradha Sen, Head- Training, Shiv Nadar Schools A few minor changes in a classroom can make a huge difference Education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the first is utility and the...
Dr Dheeraj Mehrotra, VP-Academic Training, Next Education Not every teacher is capable of taking care of the needs of special children Assistive Learning Technology makes life easy for person with disability. The term ‘Assistive’ means something that provides...
Dr Uma Tuli, Founder, Amar Jyoti School Assistive technology is must for making inclusive education a reality Today when we talk about technology, we are forgetting about people with disability. Our perception should be to consider the ways to develop assistive...