Focussing academic partnerships, Global Education Summit commences at Chandigarh University
Top Leaders in World Education deliberated on collaborative education models, new policies, future job prospects
MOHALI:
Two-days long Global Education Summit -2022 held at Chandigarh UniversityGharuan, in which Vice-Chancellors of over top 50 Universities from 27
countries participated to formulate and strengthen international academic
collaborations in Higher education for innovative teaching methods and global
sustainability of academic models.
The experts discussed
over the opportunities generated from partnering up of universities
The discussion
initially stressed upon the blended learning as many Universities are into
blended learning due to increasing cost of education due to required
infrastructure as number of students are also on rise. Students from remote
location could easily access to education from suitable locations.
The Covid-19
outbreak have been a struggle for which have led the institutions to be more
adaptable to accommodate changes to provided opportunity to establish new
networks and cooperation amongst themselves.
The summit by
Chandigarh University was an attempt to furthering the vision of honourable
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new education policy which have stressed upon
internationalization of education which encouraged the Indian institutions to
establish the partnership with best international institutes across the world.
Two Memorandum
of Understanding (MoUs ) were signed by Chandigarh University with Iloilo
Science & amp: Technology University, Philippines and Bugema University,
Uganda
The Summit hold
the discussions regarding the usage of innovation for improvement in Quality of
Life, Sustainable Models for Blended
Learning in the Post Covid Era, Meeting with future aspirations of students
through partnering up , Defining Universal Skills for Employability without
Borders and to create Research Oriented Teaching Learning Model.
The further,
the summit discussed upon the crisis cited from New World Economic Forum report
which says 75 million jobs will be replaced by Artificial Intelligence,
Automation and Robotics but due to embedment of technological advancements into
education around 133 million jobs will be created by year 2022.
Many positive
aspects have been raised during the Covid-19 pandemic as universities from all
around the world have joined hands through using technological advancements for
saving problems being faced by world. Thus, there is a need to add new things
for removing the redundant things.
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