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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has partnered with UNICEF and YuWaah to collaborate on life skills development, career guidance, and enabling student access to and engagement in volunteering opportunities.
The organizations will now roll out the Passport to Earning (P2E) initiative for CBSE students, in which they will be upskilled with key 21st century skills mapped to CBSE’s employability skills curriculum. Based on the results of this pilot program, the initiative will be expanded to students across the country, as well as teacher training and capacity building.
This initiative aligns with the National Education Policy (NEP) and the CBSE’s ongoing initiative of Handbook on 21st Century Skills and Employability Skills coursework. Experts want to shift away from rote learning and emphasize the value of skills in students.
“It also recommends instilling skills in students, right from the school level. Passport to Earning is one of the initiatives supported by the Board towards achieving this goal. In time, we may explore integrating P2E with the Skill Hubs Initiative of the Govt. of India. We, at CBSE, welcome this initiative as it would provide our students an opportunity to learn 21st century skills, which are very relevant in current times, and which will help in shaping them into productive citizens in the future,” said Nidhi Chhibber, Chairperson, CBSE.
Source:IE
