Education Minister highlights importance of digital university in quality education

Education Minister highlights importance of digital university in quality education

Last Updated Jun - 29 - 2022, 04:38 AM | Source : | Visitors : 16

New Delhi: The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has recently stated the importance of digital university in enhancing the access to quality education. He said that a technology-driven approach and initiatives like digital universities in line with the new National Education Policy (NEP) will become key aspects of quality education. 

“There is a need to adopt innovative and out-of-the-box methods to enhance access to quality and affordable education and to bring our vast population under the formal education and certified skills structure. Creating robust and resilient mechanisms for making education accessible to all is a priority for the government,” Pradhan said in his address at India Today's Education Conclave.

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“Technology-driven approach and initiatives like Digital University in line with the NEP-2020 will be key to enhance access to quality education. NEP sets the vision and path to cater to the requirements of every learner right from Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) and also for building a vibrant and equitable knowledge society. We are working to integrate skill education into school and higher education to boost employability,” he said.

Talking about the future of job opportunities and skill development, Pradhan said that the nature of jobs is changing day by day and the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 presents us with both challenge and opportunity of skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling the country's vast demography.

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“We must bring a paradigm shift in skilling and make it more aspirational to harness IR 4.0 as well as make our youth future-ready. NEP charts the course to develop our students and youth as global citizens with new-age ideas and skills and prioritises learning in Indian languages for establishing India as a knowledge economy of the 21st century,” he added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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