India's G20 4th Education Working Group meeting on June 19

Education Ministry will hold the 4th and final Education Working Group (EDWG) meeting in Pune, Maharashtra from June 19, 2023, to June 22, 2023. The theme of the meeting will be “Ensuring Foundation Literacy and Numeracy, especially in the context of blended learning”.

Sanjay Murthy, Secretary, of Higher Education said that Countries such as Spain, Australia, Indonesia, the United States of America (USA), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, China and the United Kingdom (UK) have all expressed their interest in the topic of the seminar and will be participating as panellists, as reported by Financial Express.

Reportedly, similar to the previous meetings, a seminar will be preceding the main EdWG Meeting and it will be based on the priority area of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy.

On June 16, at IISER, Pune, as a precursor to the G20 EdWG meeting, the Department of Higher Education is organising a seminar in collaboration with ELSEVIER.

The seminar will be held on the theme ‘Accessible Science: Fostering collaboration’. This event will convene stakeholders across the scientific community to discuss best practices for accessible Science, how accessible Science can be applied across individual nations with differing local capacities, and ways to utilise science practices to support global progress, he added.

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