Birla bats for cross-disciplinary skills

Cross-functional education is the need of the hour to keep up with technological advancements like artificial intelligence (AI), said Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, on Sunday.

- Pratishtha Bagai

He explained that cross-functional curricula meant pursuing multiple courses at different campuses simultaneously. "I think the need of the hour is more cross-functional education. The curriculum of many subjects needs to be revised or supplemented with courses that are trans-educational," Birla said in his reply to Mint's question at a press conference held at Birla Institute of Technological Sciences (BITS), Pilani.

Birla, the chancellor of BITS Pilani, visited the campus of the engineering college after over a decade to anchor their 2025 batch convocation.