Sibal seeks diaspora's help for innovative educational system

Updated on: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sibal said the government's vision is to build an innovative educational system to help the youth develop critical thinking and analytical power and sought the diaspora's cooperation in achieving the goal.

"Our vision is to build a truly innovative educational system for our youth to acquire skills in critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem solving, communications and to develop people who have ambition and self confidence.
 
"To make this a reality, our educational system offers tremendous opportunities for collaboration and cooperation to our diaspora," he said.
 
In a message during the release of a special issue on Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas by the HRD Ministry, he focused on areas such as skill development, networking of institutions, devising and financing of advanced research etc where such collaborations can be executed.
 
The special issue covers bilateral events such as the Indo-US Summit, the India-UK Education Forum and also highlights new developments within the Ministry, UGC, AICTE with regards schemes/programmes specific to NRIs.

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