Bikkrama Daulet Singh

Bikkrama Daulet Singh

Bikkrama Daulet Singh is Co-Managing Director at Central Square Foundation (CSF), a non-profit organisation striving to ensure quality school education in India, with a focus on foundational learning. Singh is one of the leading expert voices in school education reform in India. His expertise in school education spans across Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, EdTech, and India’s private school sector.

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Reimagining Education for an inclusive Future

From start-ups with foresight to new innovations in the field of VR-fuelled education and changes planned in current education systems, education is set to undergo a paradigm shift in the post-pandemic world and in the years to come. Can future policies pave a way for change and if indeed they can, will blended learning stay as a gamechanger wherein education can actually impart lifeskills, mental sustenance, and awareness about global issues to large tracts of students with targeted outreach plans rather than centre around prescribed and time-honoured syllabi? The time is ripe for us to take a good look at our education systems and ask what is their real purpose - imparting knowledge, increasing employability or creating well-rounded, kinder and thinking adults? In ancient times, Plato's Academy taught a range of topics such as philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, politics, physics and more, and it was all part of the 'Platonic Philosophy'; interestingly, now some private universities are again focusing on the liberal arts that cover Humanities; Social Sciences; Natural Sciences and Formal Sciences. Can we start re-looking at education's larger goals in the midst of our bid to equip children for the rat race? Join us, along with our diverse panel of experts, to explore these topics in greater detail.