Education and Skill Summit, 21st October 2016
The State of Jharkhand has embarked upon the journey of making the state a Knowledge Hub in the country in coming years. Under the new leadership of Shri Raghubar Das, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand, the state is working aggressively to put Jharkhand in the limelight of investment map globally. Along with IT, urban infrastructure, mining sector, Government of Jharkhand is also focusing on creation of quality education ecosystem. Be it School, Higher or Skill Education, Jharkhand aspires to be in top league in the country. In this context, it is indeed our pleasure to announce Jharkhand Higher & Skill Education Summit 2016’, a first of its kind National Conference on education in the state. The Department of Higher & Technical Education, Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society is the esteemed ‘ Host Partner’ of this summit.
Key Themes
- Investment in Higher Education Sector in Jharkhand
- Quality Skill Development Education in Jharkhand: Opportunities & Road Ahead
- Technology as the Change Agent for Quality Education
- National & International Best Practices of Education
- Jharkhand As Knowledge Hub : Opportunity for Investments
Oportunities
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE JHARKHAND FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION
- Opening New Private Universities as per notified guidelines (recent ones – Amity, AISECT and Pragyan)
- Industry – Academia tie-up: COE Incubation centres
- State has initiated enabling Wi-Fi campuses for college/institutions
- Partnering with state govt. for skill courses in colleges
- Establishing campuses of Foreign universities/technical institutions
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE JHARKHAND FOR THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION
- Opening and Management of New Engineering / Polytechnic colleges on PPP mode (operational – 4, Recently awarded – 3)
- Industry – Academia tie-up
- MOUs to develop COEs and t-SDIs for Skill Development / Improving Quality in Technical Education
- State has received proposals from Siemens, PTC, Samsung to setup COEs
- State to provide grant to existing Private engineering colleges to improve infrastructure
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE JHARKHAND FOR THE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
- Forging partnership for skill development centers in existing academic institutions (Higher, Technical and ITI institutions)
- Setting up of 50 Mega Skill development centres and continuous Bidding process for selection of Training partners underway
- Big focus on “Recognition of Prior Learning” mode
- Create Industry linkages to create –
- Set-up Centres of Excellence
- Entrepreneurship Development Fund (EDF) to incubate and scale up ustainable ideas Large role for Assessment bodies, SSCs, Employer promoted organizations to create ecosystem Digital Content evelopment for TSPs
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE JHARKHAND FOR THE SCHOOL EDUCATION
- Capacity building of over 1 lac teachers across schools in the state
- Private Partners to establish Vocational Centres within school premises
- Quality Education interventions in low literacy and tribal dominated blocks
- Robust ICT intervention in curriculum delivery, content design, Smart classes for wider audience reach
- Setting up of Language Labs for building effective communication skills amongst students
