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“We’ve also signed MOUs with industries to train faculty members in advanced technologies,” says Prof. Rajive Kumar, Member Secretary, AICTE, MoE, Govt. of India in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSANewDelhi #ELSAGurugram As you know, the event name is “New Normal: Education Leadership Summit and Awards.” What does the word “New Normal” stand for you? The term “New Normal” emerged after the pandemic. Many new methodologies and ways of teaching emerged after the pandemic. One of them was remote teaching, allowing education to be delivered from remote locations. This became the new normal. Even during challenging times, institutions in remote areas adapted by offering online teaching. This shift has now become routine. So, to me, the new normal in education is the ability for students to learn from home and acquire skills through online methods. What are the new initiatives of AICTE which you would like to highlight? We have taken large number of initiatives. To support the government’s semiconductor initiative, we’ve approved colleges for VLSI, logistics, and advanced telecommunication technologies. We’ve also signed MOUs with industries to train faculty members in advanced technologies. Additionally, we’re working on allowing working professionals to enhance their qualifications through higher education. We’re also launching a scheme where working professionals can study in flexible timings in face-to-face mode. This is in line with the two education modes in the country, regular face-to-face and online. We are aware that with the launch of the NEP, now we are in a position to celebrate the third year of existence of NEP, are there any special announcements you’d like to make? We’re going to use this time to introspect on what we’ve achieved and plan to fill any gaps. It’s an opportunity for policy makers to come together and discuss implementation challenges and solutions. Whenever you are implementing something new, some problems come in implementation. So, basically, we’ll sit during these two-day program, deliberate and find out the solutions. These discussions will help us refine and improve our education system. You witnessed this event where we have the policy makers the academicians even the corporate and the entire education community how does such forums helps overall industry to grow and understand about each other? Yes, that is very important and as in today’s program we saw a large number of Industry people and academicians and people those who are running the academic institutions they are there and such type of programs definitely help to understand the issues challenges and the best practices of others. They can learn from others also and they can share their best practices with others also so this is a very important forum. I hope you will organize many more programs not only in Delhi but also in remote parts of the country as well. Any special message for ArdorComm Media Group on its 2nd anniversary? It was really a pleasure to attend and see large galaxy of the academicians in this conclave and I hope because this is the second anniversary you are celebrating in time to come it will grow like a banyan tree and a large number of academic fraternities will take benefit from this organization.

“Through the NEP it has been reflected that we should go for a multi-faculty and multi-talented people at the same time they must also have theoretical as well as applied knowledge and in that domain,” says Prof. R. S. Yadav, Vice Chancellor, Baba Mastnath University, Rohtak in an Interview with Pratik Ghosh, Content Writer, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSANewDelhi #ELSAGurugram How are you feeling to witness the New Normal Education Leadership Summit and Awards in New Delhi? I find it very good and also an innovative idea that where a lot of people of the same discipline and also the industry are coming together and providing a new kind of input, sharing our experience also that definitely helps us in motivating and implementing NEP in a more better way and making the academics more useful to the market needs and to the demand of the society. How are you implementing technology in your university? Basically, this is an era of technology without that it is not possible to run anything, even academics. So, we are starting from the basic that Wi-Fi campus is there, smart classrooms are there and also computer labs are there, communication labs are there and through different kind of online learning courses we are strengthening the capability of the student for the traditional as well as new innovative courses in the discipline. According to you, what should be India’s vision for the education sector? Actually, through the NEP (National Education Policy) it has been reflected that we should go for a multi-faculty and multi-talented people at the same time they must also have theoretical as well as applied knowledge and in that domain. The global networking is very important because without the e-learning and without opening to these kinds of sources it becomes very difficult to update yourself to the global challenges, global market. So, we are projecting that a student should have the job orientation not only at the India scale but also at the global level by knowing all the details or what is happening today. In this kind of forums where we bring in the education leaders, the tech leaders as well as the government. So, how does this kind of forum benefit the education sector? This is a great initiative by your Media Group because this provides the real problem-solving platform because the industry people are developing their platform with their input that what kind we benefit but at the same time academic people also let them know what are the problems they have in implementation or they get to resolve the issues and if both combine definitely that will be a very good step in the right direction. Any message for ArdorComm Media Group on its 2nd anniversary? I am thankful to ArdorComm Media that I got the opportunity for the first time and they must be providing these opportunities further also and this will be a good initiative for the times to come. Thanks to ArdorComm Media for calling us for this meet.

“Technology is very, very important, obviously, and you need to focus on technology because without technology, India cannot progress, the world cannot progress now,” says Pankaj Jain, Regional Director India Subcontinent, UTS College in an Interview with Pratik Ghosh, Content Writer, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSANewDelhi #ELSAGurugram How are you feeling to witness the New Normal Education Leadership Summit and Awards in Delhi? I think it’s a good conference. I am at the inaugural session, and we had a lot of senior dignitaries from AICTE, Pankaj Mittal Ji, and the chief guest. It’s good because many times, you are sitting in your offices, and you don’t realize what is happening in technology, what is happening in AI. When you attend such conferences, you open minds because you are away from the office, and you learn a lot of things because these are people from universities. We had Dr. Madhu Chitkara Madam from Chitkara University, and we had the minister from Nagaland as the chief guest. Chandan Ji also spoke a lot of things, so it is always good and helpful to attend such conferences. I would say for all the university delegates, all the foreigners also, to come and attend such conferences. What’s your take on the technology implementation in the education sector? I think, as the lady from LinkedIn also said in the inaugural session, technology is the boom. Like she was saying, we have 10 million guests added every month, which is big numbers. I think it is very important as we talked about AI also, Chat GPT also. So, technology is very, very important, obviously, and you need to focus on technology because without technology, India cannot progress, the world cannot progress now. As you know, the theme of our event is India Vision 2030. How do you see the vision of India till 2030 in the education sector? I think with the new education policy being implemented, like I work for UTS College Australia, we have done two transnational education tie-ups in Gujarat as well as in Bangladesh, and we’re exploring something in Nepal also. So, T&E are the future of NEP 2020, and as per the minister, Dharmendra Pradhan Ji, he also said that we need to focus on this. I had visited Gift City also recently in Ahmedabad in Gandhinagar, a very good city, with a lot of universities and schools coming up, multinational coming up. So, I think by 2030, we should be able to do much better, maybe even before that itself if the BJP government comes to power, which I hope they will come. We should be very positively aiming for reaching this goal by 2026 only. You have a lot of contributions to the International Education. Can you share some key highlights of your contribution? I have been into International Education for the last 24 years. I am a UK MBA plus worked for a UK University for 11 years, then as a consultant, now working for UTS College, which is in Australia, for the last three and a half years. I think a lot of students are going abroad. We have seen around 12 to 30 lakh students going abroad every year, and obviously, the five major countries are UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, which are the top five English-speaking countries. But students have started going to France also now, Germany also now, Poland also now, Japan also now. So, it’s a big thing, and it is good because students get a lot of exposure outside. They learn a lot of things, become self-independent, and can take right decisions. All the universities are trying to open campuses in India also now as per the new policy announced by the government that you can open campuses. So, we can see in the next five-six years, a lot of foreign universities will start campuses in India. So, besides students going abroad to study, we will have foreign faculty, or whatever the tie-ups they do, the courses will be delivered in India, and you can have Indian degrees also studying in India and being residing in India also. ArdorComm Media has completed two years of its existence, any message on this occasion? I think ArdorComm Media has been doing very well. The two-day conference is very promising, with a lot of leading experts in education, academia. I’m not a professor by chance, so I cannot talk a lot of things on lectures on teaching style, but I’m still a sales marketing guy. I think it is a good way of doing. You have 200 plus delegates and speakers, which is good. If you have a thousand-plus, then people don’t have time to interact, so at least if you have a small cohort, you can have time to interact. People can exchange cards, develop relations because it is networking also, relation-building also, and if there’s some work, why don’t we work jointly? That’s the whole idea of a conference.