Chennai: Future education will be a blended education where institutes will be focused on delivering content with quality. Along with this, higher education system in India should also focus on achieving sustainable goals which is important for our existence said Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice-Chairman, UGC.
He was expressing his view during the webinar organised by IIHMR University, Jaipur on “Heartful Leadership: Transforming Education and Supporting Sustainability”.
The webinar organised in association with Heartfulness Institute, India (HFI) and UN Global Compact Network India (UNGCN) was addressed by veteran Indian and International thought leaders, academicians, scholars, and media professionals. It was attended by 1000 plus participants.
Patwardhan expressed his views on transforming education and supporting sustainability. He referred the ancient system of education and said that the visionaries had identified the ways of transforming education way back.
“Due to Covid-19, people are in adaptive mode of change. The education system in India has adopted and accepted the webinars so fast, which is remarkable but we should not make our education system automatic as technology cannot replace teachers,” he said.