Speaking at a recent seminar held in the City of Joy,
Dr. Jitendra K Das, Director, FORE School of Management, Delhi, said, “We need to seriously deliberate in the way education is delivered today. Education is crucial for an individual, for the society and hence, crucial for nation building. Thus at various levels – individual, societal, national; we need to focus and conceive frameworks and policies which facilitate a holistic approach. Because the World is what today, things are changing very fast pace, what may have been very important things to learn a few years back may be obsolete today. The classroom teaching should be designed in tune with changes at the secondary level if not the primary level”.
Echoing similar feeling Prof. Anjan Kumar Ghosh, VC,
Tripura University said, “Curriculum at the academic institutes of India is very weak; in fact, the curriculum seems to be stuck in 1970s due to some reason or the other. People today are being taught the same thing which I have learnt during my college 36 years ago. Focus on curriculum and research is of utmost importance and needs disruptive change.”
The brainstorming session took place in Kolkata during the Education Excellence Awards, 2017 held by Assocham. FORE School of Management, Delhi was awarded, “The Best B School of the Year” by Hon’ble Minister of State for HRD (Higher Education) Govt. of India, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey.
Among other eminent dignitaries from the academia, present were Taranjit Singh, Head of JIS Group of Education Institutions; Prof. Samit Roy, Chancellor Adamas University; Meghdut Roy Chaudhury, Director Techno India, Col. Ravinder Kr Gosain, Founder VP, Bharatiya Skill Development University, Jaipur, Prof. Suman K Mukherjee, Director General, The Bhawanipur Education Society College.
Former director of IIM Calcutta, Prof. Dr. Shekhar Chaudhuri, presently, director of city based Calcutta Business School, when later said, “Education has to evolve from being just theory sessions in the classroom. It has to be more than that, for example, role plays and gamification. Challenge is how to engage students. Students nowadays have various interests, different calibres, intellect levels, ways of concentrating and different ways of learning and acceptance. Institutes alone cannot bring in change as they are guided by regulatory bodies.”
We hope the regulatory bodies give more power to the institutes to align their programs and courses according to the demands of the industry, soon.