The Skills Edge
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The book defines the skills themselves and organizes them into groups for easy understanding.
Explains how “Skills for Life” is critical for holistic child development, how schools can repurpose
the existing curriculum into skills based systems, proposes reorganizing entire education infra for
Skills Education, redefines roles of teachers, principals, parents, community, business houses and
government for developing future ready individuals.
A sincere effort by Nandita and Antony to usher in the vision of the New Education Policy 2020
(NEP2020) of India inside schools for transitioning them into Future Education. The book is an
opportunity for intelligentsia for a mental joust…meant to trigger thoughts towards “Skills
Approach” in school education.
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Nandita Nag, a Prof. K. Subramanian Endowment (EFLU, Hyderabad) & Guru Draunacharya
Samman (AVANTIKA) awardee has dedicated 24 years to Education. She headed academic
teams of Bharti Foundation and Darshan-Education-Foundation, established Delhi Public School
Civil- Lines Aligarh; headed Iqra Public School Aligarh; taught in Tezpur University, Arya
Vidyapeeth College, Delhi Public School, Army School, and Kendriya Vidyalaya in Guwahati.
Implemented curriculum, training and assessment across India to reach more than 50000 students
and 2500 teachers. In 2019 she co-founded Agragati Education Foundation.
Antony NJ, a certified Coach and Educationist is known for developing SCERTs, DIETs, and
School professionals to realise the full potential of students in schools. Worked in Don Bosco
School, Rajya Shiksha Kendra Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Unicef and Sight savers International.
Mainstreamed School Leadership in SSA as a Project Director of Technical Cooperation fund in
Save the Children. A Graduate from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat is
Global Goodwill Ambassador (Humanitarian). Currently he is Chief School Excellence, Bharti
Foundation.
