Educational Change Management in Assam: Challenges & Solutions

1. To Vice-Chancellors and Principals Dated – 02 May, 2012 Change Management in Assam Education Challenges & Direction

2. Contents • What is Change Management • Evident Changes • Challenges • Ways to Overcome Challenges • Assam Overview • Supply Side – Current and Future • Demand Side • Triggers for Change • High Dropout in Indian Schools, leading to Unskilled Labor Pool • Low Penetration of Technology in Schools • Absence of Integration between Vocational and Regular Courses • Convenience of e-Learning • Decreasing Cost of Technology • Changes happening in Educational System • Hon'ble Education Minister’s perception of Future School Education • Integrated Network of Educational Institutes • Smart Classrooms changing the way Students are Taught • Integration of Vocational and Regular Courses under NVEQF • Proposed Changes for Educational Institutesin Assam • Overall Changes • Implementation on NVEQF • Teacher recruitment and development • Use of Technology in Teaching and Teacher Training • Challenges for Schools for Implementing the Changes • Ways to Mitigate the Challenges

3. What is Change management?

4. Change Management • Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with change, both from the perspective of an organization and on the individual level. • For an organization, change management means defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the operational environment and to profit from changing opportunities • Change management has at least three different aspects, including: • Adapting to change, • Controlling change, and • Effecting change

5. Factors Enabling Change in Educational Institutes • ICT has greatly reduced the cost of sharing information and has ..enabled the development of smart classrooms

6. Changes Happening in Education

7. Change Management - Challenges & Solutions

8. Assam Overview

9. Assam in 2022 Demographics, Demand and Supply 7.5 mn Skilled and Employed Skilled Employed Unskilled 10.6 mn need Skilling/ Reskilling Semi Skilled Unemployed Unskilled Agriculture Retraining – 5.75 mn 10.6 mn Economic Drivers Demand Non-agriculture Training – 4.75 mn Disruptive Solutions to Bridge Demand Supply Gap Gap Agriculture Retraining – 5.75 mn 10.6 mn Training Providers Possible Supply Non-agriculture Training – 4.75 mn

10. Skilling Requirements – Agri and Non-Agri Sectors This 10.6 million consists of 1 million educated unemployed (mostly graduates) who would look for vocational skilling • Situation in 2022 –

11. Potential Industry Scenario in 2022

12. Future Education and Skilling Scenario in Assam Education & Skilling – Going Forward Ministry of Education Ministry of Labor & Employment Government & Other Private HSCC HSSLC Polytechnic Graduates Post Grads Engg + Medical ITI/ITC MES SDC CM Scheme VTPs/ Others MoIA DONER General Education + NVEQF (Voc) General Education + NVEQF (Voc) Vocational Education Vocational Education NVEQF likely to help meet the future scale required for skilling in a very big way and hence most skilling resource development will happen around NVEQF

13. Triggers for Change

14. High Dropouts in Indian Schools “40% of India’s work force of about 400 million people is illiterate and another 40% comprises school dropouts” – recent BCG report “Home to one of the world’s oldest universities, now only 10% of the roughly 20 million who enroll in the first grade every year finish high school, while female participation remains abysmal” – Mint “Lack of quality education is one of the 10 factors holding India back from rapid economic growth” – Goldman Sachs

15. Low Penetration of Technology India has been ranked 69th among 142 nations in inherent capacity to leverage information and communication technologies (ICT) for progress ---Networked Readiness Index reports 2012, by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD “One of the major challenges towards adoption of technology in the education sector is the mindset of teachers – a major roadblock in adaptability. Majority of the teachers have been molded in chalk-and-talk instruction approach and usually perceive technology as a means to replace them” “Government regulations as they put a cap on the pricing structure of the school and the ICT development proposals. Public schools are less resilient to considering the education solutions as the IT infrastructure to these schools are provided by the government” ----Mr. Anil Goyal, Director - Strategy and Business Development, Mexus Education

16. Lack of Vocationally Trained Manpower • Age Group 15-29 • only 2% have undergone formal vocational training • 8% acquired skills at work place • 93% of workforce in unorganized sectors • New entrants to the workforce every year: 12.8m • Existing skill development capacity: 3.1 million Lack of integration between general and vocational education starting from school level, at the root of this problem

17. Convenience of Web-based Learning • Allows learners to move at their own pace • Promotes individualized and flexible learning • Easy customization of content to suite regional needs • Cost effective as content is available at a lesser cost • Provides a consistent delivery of knowledge and material • Most suited to promote life long learning

18. Decreasing Cost of Technology Knowledge being delivered through handheld devices like mobile phones, tablet PCs, etc Cost of handheld devices have come down dramatically, making them accessible to one and all Low Cost Tablet Revolution in India HCL Micromax Akash

19. Comparison with International Systems

20. New Normal for Educational Institutesin India Changes Happening in Indian EducationSystem

21. Education Minister’s Views on Transforming Education System “For imparting skills to India’s young workforce, the country would need to build a robust vocational education system that linked education to the world of work. This requires the award of qualifications of international standards accepted by industry globally.  This will enable mobility of students across vocational and higher educations. The students endowed with skills sought by industry globally will then serve its needs” ---KapilSibal at the US-India Higher Education Summit “National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF) will make vocational training more acceptable to the society. As of now, the society is more concerned about the plain paper degrees such as graduation and post graduation etc. Parents too like their children go for regular graduation instead of vocational degrees. So while we have a lot of educated youngsters they also at the same time remain unskilled. With NVEQF now a student can get various levels of certification in vocational courses even as he or she pursues school and college level education” ---KapilSibal on NVEQF “Internet and new forms of education technologies will bring a paradigm shift in terms of generating knowledge pool and creating global knowledge sharing platforms in years to come” ---KapilSibal at the One Globe 2012: Uniting Knowledge Communities Conference

22. Integrated Network of Educational Institutes National Knowledge Network (NKN) • Overview – • Comprises of an ultra-high speed CORE (multiples of 10 Gbps) with a strong distribution platform • Participating institutions will connect to the NKN seamlessly at speeds of 1 Gbps or higher • Advanced applications in areas such as Health, Education, Science & Technology, Grid Computing, Bio informatics, Agriculture, and Governance will be an integral part of NKN • Applications – • Countrywide Virtual Classroom • Seamless Information Sharing • Collaborative Research • Virtual Library • e-Governance

23. Integration of Regular & Vocational under NVEQF NVEQF will bring integration between vocational and general education at each level, providing employable skills to students from Class 9

24. Use of Technology in Indian Schools With companies like Educomp specializing in digitization of education, many private schools are increasingly using the tools built by them • Smart Classrooms – • To make education more interactive and learning a fun experience, many schools are opting for Information and Communication Technology- enabled smart classes where digital black boards, audio-visual rooms and interactive sessions have replaced traditional blackboards and textbooks • Social Networking – • Teachers are using social networking sites and emails to engage with their students and parents. The assignments are now accepted through emails. Groups are made on Facebook to keep the students updated about classes and school activities. Similarly, students are using it to upload interesting videos and articles about topics of their interest on the group page and share it with everyone • Digital Libraries – • Administration of books is done through software. This help schools in making list of popular books and keeping a tab on the reading trends among children.

25. Proposed Changes for Educational Institutesin Assam

26. Changing Educational Ecosystem Self Learning Continual Learning Web Based Virtual Universities Individuals Web Based Resource Sharing Technology Enabled Teaching Vocational + General Education Sharing Resources National Knowledge Network National Institutes Learning through Technology Knowledge Network, Web, Technology Enabled Teaching, Knowledge Sharing through Handheld Devices, NVEQF driving change

27. Implementation of NVEQF

28. Implementation Details Launch the program and work on areas like certification Launch Change Mgmt Change management in Schools to prepare for the new structure and manage requirements Orientation For 9th, 10th grade students, their parents, school administration Teacher Development Recruitment and training of new teachers Curriculum and content development inline with directives from NVEQF and defining training strategy Curriculum Identification of schools for pilot project and build required infrastructure Schools SEBA to approve program 1st Approval Private Partners Identify private partners for outsourcing of project components to them Project approval by Govt of Assam and initial change mgmt 1st Approval 1st May 15th May 15th Jul 1st Aug 28

29. Required Change Management

30. Trainer Recruitment and Development Sourced from Partner Organization Recruited as per State Policy Trainers for NVEQF Partner Organization manages recruitment, training, etc Recruitment, training, re-training to be managed by school as per State policy

31. Required Change Management

32. Use of Technology in Teaching Delivery Means Local Language Content Rural Homes Using the Rural Broadband Network Audio Systems Satellite Based Remote Training Delivery Toll Free Helpline Haptics Mobile Based Learning 32 32

33. Required Change Management

34. Conclusion There is considerable difference between “change” and “progress”. Whereas change involves something being made different, progress involves that this change is moving in a desirable direction. While change is imminent in the educational structure of Assam, progress will only be made if this change is managed properly with conviction, communication and effective planning

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