Jagan is determined to turn students into global citizens.CM Jagan is on a mission for the overall development of Andhra Pradesh and is keen to turn AP students into global citizens. He held a meeting with officials and technocrats to integrate the present school education reforms with higher education and called for submissions from the high-power working group on Future Technology Skills.
The high power working group comprised of senior officials and representatives of global tech companies like Google, Microsoft, NASSCOM, Dataviv Technologies and Primus Partners India. The meeting was attended by Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana, chief secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy, Microsoft Learning and skills director Vinni Jauhari, Intel senior Director (Asia Pacific and Japan) Sweta Khurana, NASSCOM v ice president Sandhya Chintala, Primus Partners India co-founder & MD Charu Malhotra and education consultant Puja Katra, Centre for Digital Economy Policy Research founder president Jaijith Bhattacharya, Amazon web services head of skills to jobs (India and South Asia) DP Singh, Google Lead Education’s Srinivs Garimella, Microsoft skills program manager Kishore Garg, Dataviv Technologies MD Vedant Ahluwalia, and its Board Member Atul Kumar respectively.
CM Jagan speaking at the meeting said "As part of the reforms in higher education, we need to work on including augmented reality, virtual reality, and related subjects into the curriculum and introducing necessary verticals like AI in every course in a majority of the schools and colleges for turning our students into experts in emerging technologies. There is a need to train the faculty also with the expertise of teaching these subjects,"
He added "The main challenge before us is taking the present reforms in school education to the next level and integrating them with higher education and teaching methods. Examination and evaluation systems in schools and colleges also should be changed in tune with the emerging and future technologies." He continued "Since we are in the age of the International Baccalaureate (IB), our students can't compete globally unless we introduce the necessary changes."
