Under India’s G20 Presidency, the third Education Working Group meeting scheduled from 26 to 29 April began in Odisha’s capital Bhubaneswar. Earlier, the second meeting of the G-20 Education Working Group was held in Amritsar, while the first meeting was held in Chennai earlier this year.
The meeting saw deliberations on the issue of skill development for lifelong learning in the future of work on the first day. It was organized at CSIR- Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology in collaboration with NSDC. Minister of State for Education Dr. Subhash Sarkar also addressed the program. The meeting witnessed participation from G20 member States, guest countries, OECD, UNESCO, and UNICEF. On the first day, 3 sessions were conducted under the chairmanship of Atul Kumar Tiwari, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The first session was on ‘Building an Agile Response to the Needs of Labor Markets and Institutional Capacity Building in the Context of the Future of Work: Enabling High-Quality Technical and Vocational Education’. The second session of the meeting was on ‘Creating a bridge between higher and professional’.
The third and final session discussed the topic of ‘Equipping children with the skills of the future to set them on a lifelong learning course’. The G20 Education Working Group aims to find solutions to issues related to the ‘future of work’.A special exhibition was organized in Bhubaneswar before the third session. The exhibition was organized on the theme ‘Future of Work’. This exhibition will be open to the general public on April 27-28.
