Business World Education Magazine - March 2023

In this issue

The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) has provided a brilliant blueprint to the country to restructure education and several innovative educators are leveraging this opportunity to mould education and change teaching-learning experience. Pointing out some of the changes being ushered in, TG Sitharam, who has recently taken over as Chairperson of the AICTE at this critical juncture of NEP implementation, says in an interview to BW Education, “In this NEP 2020, the school curriculum has been modified to include financial literacy and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the roll-out of important NEP initiatives. Given that the mother tongue or regional language was given priority under the NEP, similar measures have been taken, albeit on a trial basis, in a number of states. Additionally, the Ministry of Education has introduced the much-discussed Academic Bank of Credit, a concept that would give college students several admission and exit alternatives.” (Read the interview “Interdisciplinary method promotes critical thinking”) The NEP, along with Covid, gave opportunity to several new-age education entities largely driven by edtech. The challenge is to separate the wheat from the chaff. And the Top Education Brands Awards is an effort of BW Education in this direction. We seek to highlight some pathbreaking initiatives in preschool, school, higher education and edtech segments. The interviews of winners featured in this issue demonstrate the innovative zeal and perseverance, of educators who have started their ventures. They possess the empathy, environment concern and understanding of skills requirement of 21st Century India. It is heartening to see the impact they are making in the student community.