New Delhi: Covid-19 has been an eye-opener and yardstick to see how dynamic, flexible, and modern your education system is. In India, over 32 crore students have been affected byCovid-19. About 13 crore students from classes 9-12 are severely affected. Dropout students have increased especially among the girls. India has adopted The National Education Policy (NEP 2020), which envisions the needs for young aspiring India. Following the NEP, this will set India to become a Global Knowledge Centre.
To deliberate on such issues, a city based think tank, The Policy Times, along with Shiv Nadar University are jointly organising a 3-Days virtual conference – the World Education Conference (WEC2021 online) between January 15, 2021 and January 17, 2021.
The conference will focus on creating ‘a roadmap for sustainable engagement of students in digital education’, and will highlight some of the common challenges faced, solutions provided, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 crisis in ensuring continuity of inclusive quality learning and wellbeing for all children. WEC2021 further aims to bring the world’s educators on a single platform and discuss a new direction to education in 2021. The conference will feature discussions on the Post-Covid recovery roadmap of education losses occurred in 2020, NEP 2020 implementation roadmap, Sustainable E-learning, and most importantly, education-industry integration.
Renowned educationists including Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE, Prof. K.K. Aggarwal, Chairman, NBA, Prof. V.K. Malhotra, Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Hamid Ahmed, Chancellor, Jamia Hamdard University, Dr. Suresh Kumar Soni, Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Board of School, Dr. V K Agarwal, Chairperson, Sunrise University Alwar, and Dr. Mahua Das, President of West Bengal Council of H.S Education.Educationists Prof (Dr.) Bhimaraya Metri, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur; Prof. (Dr) Rupamanjari Ghosh, Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University (Greater NOIDA) and Prof. Ujjawal K Chowdhury, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Adamas University, Kolkata, would be the co-conveners of the conference
– global bihari bureau
