Jaipur, 25th February, 2019:
The first pure Skill University in the country, Bhartiya Skill Development University, today organised School Principals’ Summit – 2019 where about 1000 principals attended the summit. The agenda of this school summit was to understand different challenges that school principals’ face and their probable solutions. Also, different aspects covering how to improve board exam results and how schools can avail 5-star rating for their campuses etc. were discussed in detail.
BSDU is a revolutionary step towards skill education which practices Swiss dual system of education by blending real time industry exposure with world-class equipped university’s curriculum. BSDU is brainchild of Dr. Rajendra Kumar Joshi and his wife, Mrs. Ursula Joshi who are dedicated towards bringing about a positive transformation by skill development in Rajasthan. In line with their efforts, Bhartiya Skill Development University (BSDU), Jaipur in order to showcase their skilling system backed with international and national trainers for every skill, world-class infrastructure, etc. to principals from all over Rajasthan has organized two-day ‘School Principals’ Summit – 2019’.
Founded by Dr. Rajendra Joshi, BSDU is the pioneer in skill development. He believes that perfected skills by the population of any country would lead to excellence and socio-economic development. BSDU works on a unique concept of building dual system of skills education (Swiss Dual System) where major focus is on customized practical industrial training along with theoretical knowledge.
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Borar, IAS, Commissioner, Education Department, Government of Rajasthan said, “We have taken various steps where we have tied up with leading coaching institutions to provide recorded classroom sessions which we will later provide to all our schools. Not only for school students but also for the college students, we have 252 government colleges providing free RAS, IAS coaching across Rajasthan where about 50,000 students have already registered and are gaining benefits of these trainings. We are also taking different steps for capacity building of lecturers so they may train maximum students going forward.”
Dr. (Brig.) Surjit Singh Pabla, President, Bhartiya Skill Development University says, “Education, vocational training and lifelong learning are the pillars of employability. To enable employment ready workforce in future, the youth needs to be equipped with necessary skills and education. For better jobs, graduation and post-graduation is very important and the best part is now students can have a graduation degree while getting trained into different skills which opens new ways and possibilities for career growth. I would like to congratulate GoR – Secondary Education Department for their efforts and hope to see positive change in education landscape of Rajasthan.”
Prof. Achintya Choudhury – Chief Registrar and Dr. Ravi Goyal – Director Admissions from BSDU; Mr. Jagdish Meena – Program Secretary; and Mr. Vishnu Dutt Swami – Chief District Education Officer and Mr. Suresh Kumar Jain – District Education Officer from GoR – Secondary Education Department graced the event with their kind presence.