Adopt exponential approach towards building future-ready workforce: Dharmendra Pradhan

In his concluding remarks at the two-day conference of vice-chancellors of central universities and directors of institutions of national importance, he said that the age of incremental change is gone.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has asked higher education institutions to adopt an exponential approach toward building a future-ready workforce. While speaking about the challenges and opportunities in the new world propelled by technology, the Education Minister said that the country has shown its technological prowess through various initiatives like  UPI, direct benefit transfers, Aadhar and that “we must build upon this strength and make a future-ready workforce ready to embrace the changes arising out of Industrial Revolution 4.0.”

In his concluding remarks at the two-day conference of vice-chancellors of central universities and directors of institutions of national importance, he said that the age of incremental change is gone.

He said that the rising number of unicorns in the country is an indicator of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem and called for preparing the students to be job givers and not only job seekers. He also spoke about various initiatives taken by the government in the realm of digital education and called for leveraging technology to further democratize education.

Several delegates who participated in the conference of the conference deliberated on various topics such as international rankings of Higher Education Institutions, collaboration between academia-industry and policymakers, integrating school, higher and vocational education and education and research in emerging and disruptive technologies.

President of India Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the conference on Tuesday. Apart from the heads of the universities, minister of state for education Subhas Sarkar; Amit Khare, advisor to the Prime Minister, Sanjay Murthy, secretary, higher education, M Jagadesh Kumar, chairperson of UGC, among others were also present in the conference. 

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