NIE seminar to focus on modernization in education

KOLKATA: Principals and educationists from over 70 schools across the city will come together on December 19 for this year’s Times NIE Principals’ Seminar at JW Marriott, held in association with BYJUS. Registrations will start at 10.30am while the event is set to begin from 11am. The topic for this year’s event is ‘Modernization In Education’.
There will be a panel of distinguished guests who will deliberate on this topic.The guests include Reserve Bank of India professor of industrial economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Sugata Marjit, senior journalist Ratnottama Sengupta, who recently turned director with ‘And They Made Classics’, and Kolkata Press Club president Snehashis Sur with The Bhawanipur Education Society College director-general professor Suman K Mukerjee as the moderator.
Keeping abreast of the changing trends in education has been one of the core values of Times NIE and as a newspaper which caters to the education sector, it brings together educationists and policy-makers. It engages with them in a healthy dialogue regarding challenges in the field of education and how to keep up with them without comprising on quality.
This is a golden opportunity for stalwarts in the field of education to get together and debate the way forward in school education, take back ideas and apply them in schools. The attendees will go back from the meet enriched with new ideas and new ways to usher in modernization in education.