India News | Target Exponential Growth Towards Building Future-ready Workforce: Pradhan to Higher Education Institutes
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday that higher education institutions should target exponential growth towards building a future-ready workforce and leverage technology to further decolonise education.
New Delhi, Jun 8 (PTI) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday that higher education institutions should target exponential growth towards building a future-ready workforce and leverage technology to further decolonise education.
Pradhan made the comments at a two-day Visitor conference which concluded on Wednesday.
"The age of incremental change is gone and I call upon higher educational institutes to target exponential growth towards building a future-ready workforce," he said.
Speaking about the challenges and opportunities in the new world propelled by technology, the minister said, "India has shown its technological prowess in various initiatives like UPI, Direct Benefit Transfer, Aadhaar and we must build upon this strength and make a future-ready workforce to embrace the changes arising out of Industrial Revolution 4.0."
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Pradhan mentioned about the rising number of Indian start-ups in the unicorn club as an indicator of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem and called for preparing the students to be job givers and not just job seekers.
The conference deliberated on various topics such as international rankings of higher education institutions, collaboration between academia-industry and policymakers, integrating school, higher and vocational education, and education and research in emerging and disruptive technologies.
President Ram Nath Kovind is the Visitor of 161 central institutes of higher education. Out of 161 institutes, representatives of 53 attended the conference physically while the rest joined it virtually.
The President also hosted and honoured some of the donors whose generous contributions have helped in building a culture of "giving back" and promoting the objective of "Atmanirbhar Bharat" in central higher education institutions.
Pradhan also called for further strengthening alumni networks and efforts being taken in the area of internationalisation of education in India, including the study in India programme.
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