What is Education 4.0 and why is it important?

Education 4.0 is putting students at the heart of educational experience and creating individual learning experiences. Education 1.0 was the traditional method of students going to Gurukul in India. Then came the universities as in Takshila and Nalanda in India.

Then Universities came up in Europe. Then you had the industrial revolution which demanded a large number of people who could be trained. There, student read books, sat down and listened to the teachers. They had a course, they had a curriculum and then they obtained a certificate to earn a living.



In Education 4.0, students can create a degree in a nuclear science [combining it] with biotechnology, with dance, with music or with fundamental physics or something like that.

The mix and match is available and can be done offline or online. A student can sit at home and get a degree.

So, in Education 4.0 students can learn their own course, they can make sure that they can learn at their own pace. At the end of it, they get a certificate that they can carry job interviews.

How is it panning out?

It's already happening in the world. Many students will ask why they need a university degree? Why can not they do things on their own?

Employers will ask what is a value of a university degree? It is happening but slowly in India because many people have a common education system and they still want a degree. We see change in over the world and in the next 5-10 years we see the acceleration and increase in people taking such certification.

Will things change in India in next 2 to 3 years?

Totally. I see change very slowly but I see a time when many people are well settled. Then we ask the question why I can educate him at home and get a certification.

Will Education 4.0 see reality by 2020?

I think around the world it will pick up by 2020 and in India by 2025. Our problem is the government. Our problem is the UGC. 70% of people go to college, in Germany 80% and Japan 88% of people go to college.

How do you enhance the quality of education?

For that we need to see which are the best institutions in the world and what the catalyst is. The best institutions are Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge and they are so good because they decide what they want to do.

They decide on courses, examinations ... No government and no regulator interference. The U.S. and U.K. government's just give money. We need to give full freedom to the next 100 years we will see a change. We also need public funding for research. The government should have a 5,000 crore annual fund for research and all universities need bid for it.