Indian education minister Dharmendra Pradhan met with Finnish education minister Petri Honkonen in New Delhi . The two discussed current issues of education in the turbulent post-covid period .
New Delhi (India), November 15 : On Tuesday, Union Minister for Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan met with Finnish Minister of Education, Science and Culture Petri Honkonen in New Delhi.The two discussed current issues of education in the turbulent post-covid period.Both noted that a steadfast approach is required to bridge the learning gap between the most vulnerable children.The Ministers also addressed the state-of-the-art education reforms in India.According to the Ministry of Education's official statement, they also had fruitful talks on making knowledge a priority pillar of bilateral cooperation and intensifying engagements in all directions, including in areas of education, skill development, and frontier research.
Early childhood education and training, vocational education and training, teacher education and training, school leadership and supervision, ICT use in education, curriculum research and development, etc.The MoU aims to bring Finland's experience to India.Both sides will work toward long-term cooperation in the field of education, keeping in mind that education is not a sprint but a long-distance run, in which teacher experience, school culture, and deep learning evolve gradually, using the previous understanding structure, according to Ritva Koukku-Ronde.Another university group, the Finnish Indian Consortia for Research and Education, FICORE, invests another one million euros per year in Indo-Finnish collaboration,According to the press release, Aalto University and the IITB are responsible for managing FICORE.