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BRICS summit backs early childhood care and skills alliance
The Indian Express··13 Sept
BRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration on Saturday, calling for cooperation in early childhood care and foundational literacy. They welcomed outcomes from the 13th BRICS education ministers meeting in Bhubaneswar last month. The text highlights the BRICS TVET Cooperation Alliance for skills sharing. It reaffirms support for the BRICS Network University and India's guiding principles on traditional knowledge.
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What It Means For You
- Shared TVET standards can affect how Indian technical colleges align certificates with partner labour markets.
- Students seeking overseas internships may see new credit pathways if mutual recognition expands.
- Industry-linked training programmes may mirror BRICS-TCA compendiums on sustainable skills.
What's Happening
- The declaration encourages mutual recognition of qualifications, mobility and safe use of AI in education.
- It looks forward to a BRICS-TCA biennial progress report and compendium of sustainable skill initiatives.
- Members pledged to link TVET institutions with industries for workforce preparedness.
BRICS education mechanisms
- BRICS education tracks run parallel to trade negotiations through ministerial meetings.
- India's Network University hosts thematic groups on science and engineering collaboration.
- The 13th education ministers meeting took place in Bhubaneswar ahead of the summit.
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