REFORMS IN EDUCATION
To bring to table the key issues affecting our school, vocational and higher education system, CII organized a national level Education Summit: Innovating for Excellence on 14 May 2007 at Vigyan Bhawan; New Delhi. The event was inaugurated by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India. Vice Chancellors and professors of Universities, delegates from the industry, representatives of government, principals, teachers and students from schools and colleges, NGOs and educational organizations attended the summit.
President A P J Abdul Kalam in his inaugural address spoke about the large gap in the availability of employable skill; requirement of skilled manpower in IT, healthcare and small scale industries; need of large number of talented youth with higher education for the task of knowledge acquisition, knowledge imparting, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing; role of universities and secondary school education system to work towards increasing the out-put......
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