Education Crisis & Reform In Asia’s Schools: A Look At Indonesia, China, India | Shifting Horizons

Published: 30 December 2024
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Education is a crucial building block for Asia’s youth and part of the solution for the current unemployment crisis. But what happens when students are not learning enough, or at all? Seasoned journalist Sruthi Gottipati travels across India, China, and Indonesia to understand the systemic challenges that exist.

From issues with teacher quality in Indonesia, to unequal learning levels amongst students in India, to China’s hidden crisis of rural dropouts, Sruthi learns about the current gaps in Asia’s schools. Through visits to these schools and interviews with experts, educators and the youth, she discovers how technology and Artificial Intelligence are offering new solutions to transform teaching methods and improve knowledge retention.

00:00 Introduction
01:14 Asia’s education crisis
02:23 Indonesia: one of the worst education systems in the world?
06:23 Training the next generation of teachers
09:04 China’s high literacy rate
09:46 China’s rural-urban education gap
13:27 Asia’s mental health crisis in schools
15:09 Anti-bullying programme in Yogyakarta
18:23 India’s state of education
19:48 Pitfalls of education tech in India
22:58 Education technology in an Indian classroom
28:22 China’s use of AI in classrooms
33:26 China building an AI workforce in higher education
37:07 Indonesia’s new education reform
39:53 Putting the new digital platform to work
44:02 What are the goals of education modernisation?

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ABOUT THE SHOW:
Seasoned journalist Sruthi Gottipati travels across India, China and Indonesia to explore the challenges that the youth are facing. Will they be able to realize their dream of ‘The Asian Century’?
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