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13/10/22 07:49 AM IST

Education 4.0 Report

In News 
  • The Education 4.0 India report was jointly released by the WEF, UNICEF and YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India).
Key Findings 
  • The school-to-work transition is the process of making students employable in a rapidly changing job market.
  • The report found that, due to the lack of coordination, school-to-work transitions in India face significant challenges.
  • The main challenges in this regard include lack of trainers, insufficient resources, infrastructure gaps, poor integration with mainstream school education curriculum and poorly links between local skill gaps and vocational courses.
  • Majority of parents and students consider vocational education as the second-best option to mainstream education.
  • Employers expect students to have high level of competencies, knowledge and skills related to their jobs. They also favour those students with strong communication skills, teamwork and problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
  • The report suggests boosting career awareness, increasing job opportunities via internships and apprenticeships, allowing credit transferability to enable students to shift between formal and informal means of education, holistic development through language learning, STEM-based courses and life skills coaching and other such recommendations.
About report 
  • The Education 4.0 India report tracks the progress and findings of the Education 4.0 India initiative, which convened over 40 partners from the education technology, government, academic and start-up communities to focus on how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies can enhance learning and reduce inequalities in access to education among schoolchildren in India.
  • Under four themes – foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher professional development, school-to-work transition, and connecting the unconnected – the report identifies gaps and outlines interventions, each substantiated by case studies and an implementation roadmap that can enable India’s youth to participate in the ever-evolving global workspace.
Source- Indian Express 

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