India Education Summit 2022 key moments: Redefining education for all

The Indian Education Summit 2022 is a two-day event where stakeholders from different spheres of the education domain will discuss the 'future of education'. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Indian Express Digital CEO, Sanjay Sindhwani, welcomes Union Minister for Education and Skill Development, Dharmendra Pradhan, at IES 2022. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said the covid pandemic has drastically affected the lives of students who will be making important decisions for the country in the next 20 years. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Addressing the India Education Summit 2022 in the national capital, Pradhan added that it is important to address these challenges and find the right ways to help them cover this gap. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Anant Goenka, Executive Director, Indian Express interacted with the Union Education Minister and asked questions about promoting regional languages, NEP 2020 and bridging gap between formal and informal education. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Talking about the existing language barrier in the country’s education system, Pradhan said that he is a strong believer in the notion that a student’s knowledge and skills should not be limited due to the language. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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While day one will began with Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s address. It will be followed by a panel discussion on 'Redifining Education for all'. This will be moderated by Anushree Bhattacharyya, Editor - Education, Brand and Marketing, FE Digital. The third session of the day will be another discussion on 'The School Story in Covid-19'. This will be followed by a discussion on ‘Technology intervention in Government education’. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Joseph Linson, Director - Government and Education Business, Intel talked about 'technology intervention in Government education' at IES 2022. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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In the panel discussion on ‘Taking Education to the next Billion’, Andrew Thangaraj, Professor, IIT Madras pointed out, “Taking education to all the next million, along with quality and rigour and no large scale operation, I think cost is a vital, vital, vital point. I think we never spoke about it that much. The average cost of government arts and science college today is Rs 6000 per semester and people get a degree for 30,000 total. So when large public institutions like IITs get into online delivery and large scale operations, we are able to really offer it at lower cost because there is a public investment here we're able to do it at lower costs and Bittle exam by like Rs 1000 or even that would CSR support. we offer it for Rs 500 for everybody." (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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The UGC Chairtman, M Jagadesh Kumar, said that the UGC is working on coming out with a regulation which will facilitate the foreign countries to come and establish campuses in the country. "We are also working on preparing a regulation to enable our Indian Institutes, whether they are state funded universities, private universities, central universities, to be able to go and open our own campuses. abroad. So both these things are happening," he said. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of AICTE said that they have allowed engineering colleges to start programmes in respective regional languages and about 20 colleges in 10 states now teach engineering in six different languages. "Similarly, there are lots of courses that are available on SWAYAM web platform. We are translating all those courses which are relevant to the curriculum of the engineering schools, and 136 or such courses are relevant for different disciplines of engineering are getting translated into core language partly done by IIT Madras,” he added. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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Indrajit Bhattacharya (NABET) participated in the panel discussion about one year into the NEP 2020, and its effect. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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Merlia Shaukat, Founder and CEO Madhai Foundation, Vishal Sunil, Co founder and Chief Technology Officer Rocket Learning, Purvi Shah, Senior Director, Storyweaver, Pratham Books, Siddhesh Sarma Co founder and Chief Programs Officer Leadership for equality, Nitin Kashyap, Product manager, Read Along, Google in conversation with Alifiya Khan Assistant Editor, Indian Express at the Indian Express India Education Summit 2022 in New Delhi on Wednesday. The panel discussed 'Enabling foundational literacy using technology'. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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Kanak Gupta, Director, Seth MR Jaipuria Schools, Yamini Agarwal, Director, Bharatiya Vidyapeeth Institute of Management and research, Hersh Shah Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Risk Management, India Affiliate, Imbesat Ahmed, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Filo in conversation with Sudeshna Sengupta, Director, Academics Vedanya at the Indian Express India Education Summit 2022. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

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In the panel disuccion on 'Breaking the Berlin wall: Ed-tech meets education', panelist Alexander Jesudasan,the Pro-VC of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science said, 'One area that needs concentration is with regard to the youth in the rural areas is internet connectivity, availability of gadgets. Tp bridge this gap, government has to come up with schemes and even CSR activities to embrace this. I think we'll be able to reach the every nook and corner of India through digital education and by which you will be able to do the massification of education. Even in our own university, we have the Centre for open and digital security.' (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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Saikat Mishra, senior director- Head of trust and safety,Google and Rakshit Tandon, Head traning,Cyber peace Foundation and Aditi Mishra Principal Delhi public school and Hrridaysh Deshpande, Vive chancellor,Ajeenkya DY Patil University and Meenakshi Uberoi founder and chief executive officer, De Pedagogics and Priti Vyas, chief executive officer and President, Amar Chitra Katha talk about 'Keeping kids safe online'. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)

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