Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has advocated for including gender studies in the educational institutions so that children learn to respect and become sensitive towards people of all genders from an early age. He was speaking after inaugurating the FICCI ARISE Conference 2019 on School Education in New Delhi last evening.
Mr Naidu called for value-based education and said that education is not just for employment but also for empowerment and enlightenment of individuals and the society. He also called for reforming teaching and training systems to improve learning outcomes.
Expressing concern over void in the market due to lack of skills required for jobs, he said, entrepreneurship education and training hold the key to empower young people to be the job creators of the future and not just job seekers. Mr Naidu also said, there is a need to ensure that girl children, orphans, child-laborers, street children and victims of disasters must be brought into fold of formal education system.
The two-day long conference aims at taking into consideration views from various stakeholders on achieving India’s vision of becoming a knowledge and human resource hub. The conference themed Future Ready Learners and Schools, will deliberate upon varied issues, including new age teaching and learning and enabling policies and regulatory changes for school education in the country
