UNESCO New Delhi Office and Brainwiz are working with Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO to bring to you an amazing webinar to discuss the 'Future of Education and Knowledge Economy' with special focus on Sri Lanka and South Asia Region on 16th May 2020 at 4:00 PM IST.
Limited number of slots, please Register at: https://bit.ly/2VSZHeG
Brief Profiles of the Guest Speakers
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Senior Adviser to the Minister of Education, Govt. of Sri Lanka | Rector & CEO of Sri Lanka International Buddhist Academy (SIBA) Campus, Kandy | Team Leader of Educational Reforms Task Force in Sri Lanka | |
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Secretary-General, Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO | Senior Visiting Lecturer on Mass Media at the Universities of Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura | Member of the Educational Reforms Task Force in Sri Lanka | |
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Professor Emeritus at BRAC University in Dhaka | Chair of the Bangladesh Early Childhood Development Network | Vice-Chair of the Campaign for Popular Education | former Senior Education Adviser | fmr. UNICEF Country Director in China, Ethiopia and Japan |
Mr. Omar Diop, Chief of Education at UNESCO New Delhi Cluster Office, Ms. Huma Masood, Program Specialist at UNESCO New Delhi Cluster Office and Mr. Tarush Jain, Founder of Brainwiz
Concept Note (https://bit.ly/2LaGJdg)
At the webinar on Futures of Education and Knowledge Economy with emphasis on Sri Lanka and the South Asian Region we will talk about the expectations and the learning outcomes of education for a Knowledge Economy in the 21st century. The key points for discussion and takeaways from the webinar will be:
- The academic nature of education
- Increasing gap between the skills that the youth has versus those that the industry demands
- Challenges in reforming education to a skill based education system, with a special focus on Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal
- Strong, continuing and consistent policy commitment to education on the part of the state.
What is the ‘Futures of Education’ initiative?
UNESCO’s ‘Futures of Education’ initiative is an attempt to rethink education and help shape the future. The initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how education, learning and knowledge need to be re-imagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity. As part of this initiative, UNESCO has appointed a high-level International Commission of thought leaders with diverse expertise and perspectives from the worlds of politics, academia, the arts, science and business. The International Commission will prepare a report, to be released in November 2021, that will provide an agenda for action and discussion by policymakers and practitioners.
Further information www.unesco.org/futuresofeducation
