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Pradeep Kumar

07/07/21 09:00 AM IST

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

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Education Ministers from the five BRICS countries virtually signed a joint declaration today, with the resolve to further strengthen their academic and research collaboration in higher education and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Theme
  • In the 8th meeting of BRICS education Ministers that was held as part of the 13th BRICS Summit being hosted by India, ministers deliberated on two themes - Leveraging digital and technological solutions for ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and enhancing research and academic collaboration.
Details
  • Regarding the need to leverage digital and technological solutions for ensuring quality inclusive education, the member states agreed to generate and expand their knowledge base that would help formulate initiatives in this regard.
  • They also agreed to facilitate creation of mechanisms that would allow sharing of knowledge and best practices with each other. These could include seminars, policy dialogues, interactions with experts, to name a few.
  • The BRICS Education Ministers also shared the policies and initiatives that each country launched to mitigate the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on education.
  • Speaking for India Shri Dhotre informed about our initiatives under PM eVidya for providing access to quality education through multi-modal means.
  • He spoke of SWAYAM MOOCs platform, SWAYAM PRABHA TV Channels, DIKSHA,  Virtual labs .
Source: PIB

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