The Cambridge English hosted a summit on the theme — Building Partnerships for the Future. The summit provided a platform for the exchange of international and regional experience in transforming education, bringing together key decision makers in the fields of education, academia, Government and industry, from both India and the UK.
Professor Sir leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge inaugurated the summit and invited guests from the Government of India, education and industry to add their perspectives.
The opening session, saw the Indian perspective shared by Ashok Thakur, secretary, department of higher education, Government of India, TV Mohandas Pai, presented the Education Industry perspective and the school perspective was given by Father C M Jose Aikara, chairman, Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination.
The discussion held in three groups were on — ‘Improving access to education by leveraging the power of technology’, ‘Measuring the success of educational projects’ and ‘The role of assessment in raising standards’.
These session were chaired by Michael Carrier, Cambridge English, Praveen Kanipakam, president and chairman of the board, Sharp Software Development India, Pvt. ltd., Dr Hanan Khalifa, Cambridge English, Prof R Natarajan, former director, IIT and former Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education and Dr Nick Saville, Cambridge English.