A Blueprint of Global Education — News18 PHH Education Summit 2022

Last updated on May 26, 2023

Key Takeaways

  • At the PHH Education Summit 2022, Pallavi Jain shared how Plaksha University is reimagining higher education through an interdisciplinary and experiential approach.
  • Plaksha integrates technology with design, liberal arts and entrepreneurship to prepare students for real-world challenges.
  • The University fosters an entrepreneurial mindset by encouraging students to innovate, build ventures and create sustainable solutions.
  • Ethics is a core part of the curriculum, ensuring students develop as responsible technology leaders.

Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset — one that empowers students not just to start up, but also add value to organizations by learning to take initiative and being proactive.

Pallavi Jain, Director, Strategy and Programs at Plaksha, was explaining Plaksha University’s interdisciplinary, experiential and hands-on approach towards tech education, at the ‘PHH Education Summit 2022’ on News 18.

At the News18 PHH Education Summit 2022, Plaksha’s approach to engineering education and higher education in India was presented through its focus on interdisciplinary learning, experiential education and entrepreneurship. The summit provided a platform for education thought leadership around how technology education can evolve to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.

She explains the three ways in which Plaksha is ‘Reimagining Higher Education’- making technology education interdisciplinary by integrating it with design, liberal arts and entrepreneurship, building an entrepreneurial mindset and anchoring research around themes of global relevance and grand challenges like digital agriculture, clean energy and water security.

As a technology university that’s set up by entrepreneurs, Plaksha has the potential to create unicorns and global companies. This inherent quality of Plaksha’s culture has already started to seep in students as a group of students from the founding cohort of undergraduate programs got selected for Y Combinator. Plaksha is also trying to create microenterprises at the Mohali campus, where students put to action sustainable business models, akin to top global universities.

She goes on to speak about the role of ethics in technology. Ethics being central to technological progress, Plaksha offers a three-month course on ethics in technological innovation that is mandatory for every student to take.

Watch the video for details on Plaksha’s new age education model and its focus on ethical leadership.

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