Dharmendra Pradhan moots five key areas for academicians to focus on
Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan has suggested academic leaders and administrators to focus on five key areas.
Building the capacities of trainers is critical to develop a vibrant workforce for the 21st century, said Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Education and Skill Development during a brainstorming session on ‘Reimagination of training institutes’ under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship here today.
While addressing the participants Pradhan said that technology is rapidly changing our world.
“From education to health, agriculture to finance, every sector is witnessing unprecedented developments triggered by technology. This is creating new opportunities and the need for a new skills landscape,” he added.
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He added that the training institutes must reimagine and reinvent themselves with a comprehensive and futuristic strategy to strengthen the skills ecosystem.
The minister also said that we need to prepare 25 lakh trainers in the next 3 years.
“The training institutes under MSDE will be a hotspot in our endeavour to develop effective trainers who will play an important role in developing next-gen workforce,” he added.
He said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has envisioned to make India a skill hub.
He called for greater innovation, institutional reforms, new ideas, international collaborations, leveraging technology to bring in a new approach towards reimagining our skills ecosystem and make India, the skill capital of the world.
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