‘Why India needs a new education policy?’
He was speaking at the World Education Summit organised in November 2017 in Dubai. The Summit was organised in partnership with the Knowledge and Human Development Agency (KHDA), Dubai. It brought together top decision-makers from government and public sector for exchange of ideas on best practices, trends, challenges and growth opportunity in education ecosystem.
Describing about the importance of education in a nation’s development, Dr Gupta said, “Some of the policymakers believe that education and health are the areas where we will focus on only after the country becomes developed. It is not like that. If the public is neither healthy nor educated, it is very difficult to imagine development of any country. Economic growth without improvement in education and health cannot facilitate development.”
Citing the examples of Singapore and Medellin — A city in Colombia, Dr Gupta stated that the one of the major reasons behind the 180 degree transformation of the aforesaid places is the good quality education.
Describing about the flaws of the education system, Dr Gupta referred Charles Darwin and Gregor Johann Mendel who used to be sailor and priest respectively. He said, “If the two eminent scientists have to follow the education system of bachelors’ degree and ahead, they will never be to achieve that they had.”
Explaining about the growing demand of technology across the world, Dr Gupta stated, “Digitisation and Automation will drastically change the education and employment scenario.” In this context, he also referred a study by McKinsey Global Institute that suggests that in coming future few occupations will be fully automated whereas the 60% of all the occupations across the world have a chance of 30% automation.
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