The 3rd Education Working Group meeting (26 to 29 April) began in Bhubaneswar. The meeting saw deliberations on the issue of skill development for lifelong learning in the future of work. 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.
Three sessions were conducted on the first day, 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’.
On the sidelines of the meeting, 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 from April 27 and 28. The G20 Education Working Group aims to find solutions to issues related to the ‘future of work’. Earlier this year, the second meeting of the G-20 Education Working Group was held in Amritsar, and the first meeting was held in Chennai.
