Katyal sees mobile application drive education system
Singapore-based Global Indian International School (GIIS) is investing Rs.150 crore in five new campuses in India, based on its NextGen SMART campus, the first of which is being set up in the city state.
The Indian-curriculum-based GIIS will start Indian investment with a Rs.50 crore campus in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh’s new state capital city in the making.
“We are ramping up GIIS presence in India in main metros to enhance the availability of digitally-led school education,” said Rajeev Katyal, Deputy COO and Country Director.
The other four campuses will be in Bangalore, Pune, Nagpur and Mumbai, Katyal said in Singapore on 1 March 2018.
“Technology-driven education introduces robotics, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Management), touch screen and virtual classrooms in school environments,” said Katyal who has been scouting educational technology from across the globe.
Katyal sees mobile application drive education system contributing to the development of 21st century learning skills like, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity.
Citing increasing security threat, he said GIIS is introducing facial recognition-based students identity systems.
In the Singapore campus, located in Punggol Digital District launched recently by the Singapore government, the SMART school use the state-of-the-art technologies to have 21st century learning methodology to prepare well-rounded students ready for challenges of the future,” elaborated Atul Temurnikar, GIIS co-founder and chairman.
The US$180 million new Singapore campus will be the next phase of education process development across Asia and in India, he said.
The campus is equipped with 600 CCTVs (closed circuit television cameras) and ultra-high speed network using 40GB fibre network backbone and 200 wireless access point providing internet connectivity to 12,500 devices.
“We have expanded the Singapore GIIS, with the new compus which has virtual classroom connectivity, sports data analytics, innovation, robotics and entrepreneurship, sustainable and green environment, and facial recognition for student security,” Temurnikar elaborated.
GIIS, which expanded its operation from Singapore through Asia over the past 16 years, operates nine campuses in eight Indian cities and 23 campuses in seven countries in the Middle East and Asia Pacific. fii-news.com
