1. Tell us more about your experience as an educator.
Love for finance and mathematics pushed me on the journey of becoming a teacher and student of the investment industry. Once Oprah Winfrey said, “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." And I feel this energy every day at my workplace.
My core skills in education and advisory profession are deep-rooted to my values of development of the successful business or individual start with the development of habit and character of trust. This helped many of the students, entrepreneur and high growth businesses who required my support in developing a growth strategy and financial acumen.
The experience has been fascinating and audacious all over and directly associated with the success of my clients and students!
2. What is your opinion of the Indian education system and how would you like to change that?
The Indian education system has come a long way after approval of National Education Policy 2020, from being focused on rote learning methods and developing clerks for British rulers to a proposed system of multidisciplinary and multidimensional personality development.
However, it would be too early to comment on how this proposed system will transcend into the reality in coming future where we target to become knowledge powerhouse of the world by the Year 2035. For me, what is missing today or in this proposed policy would be targeting an unambiguous system of plucking low hanging fruits in the sector, which could be easily grasped with opening up the sector to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.
There is no denying that education should be essentially a public good in large for a developing country with GDP per capita income below $ 2,500. Education as a public good, it is completely mismanaged specifically in populous states and as the private sector its completely out of sight of the common man. Remember, education is fundamental to development and growth, and India has a glaring example of that is 'BIMARU' (an infamous acronym for Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh).
3. What changes in the teaching methodologies have you seen in the recent times?
Pedagogy and pedagogical framework have fiercely deliberated and most disrupted themes of our time. Starting with smart classes and BYJUs and with the advent of Coronavirus, the whole education system in the state of disruption.
Teachers and professors who hated tabs and cell phones in their class in past now are forced to place it the hand of their student and use it to earn their livelihood. It is obvious that digitalisation will be key to success for teaching method going forward.
The education renaissance has been started and reach international programs will be highly sought-after program going forward. Diversity and professional programs like CFA, ACCA, PMP, CMA and CPA are poised to become parallel to our brick-and-mortar based degree and diploma programs.
4. How does education help one do well in their career?
I am glad you asked such a profound question, which essence of homo sapience development story. For me, education is a gateway to knowledge, skills and ethics, it’s essentially an alchemist touchstone which turns anything to gold. I am a firm believer once the process of education starts and grow through time and space throughout our lives.
5. Do you think teaching as a profession is viewed at par with corporate jobs?
It will remain a fluid question for me, as I maintain the bridge between teaching and corporate business. Having said that I come from industry, corporate finance and investment banking, where the line is blurred. Therefore, I would be biased towards the corporate job as it fulfils your material need and provides immediate gratification.
6. How can we adopt technology to make teaching more effective?
Thank you for asking this. Absolutely, present time technology remains the key to success in teaching methods and delivery. Earlier what we visualised tech intervention should do in decades in education industry suddenly looks like will be possible in the next two to five year. Let me give you some real-time example in the Indian context.
At Finoversity, we were planning to provide the program in the 3-D environment to investment professionals so even in late night and in remote location working professional can experience the real-time feel of brick-and-mortar one-to-one tutoring/ training experience, now with Jio venturing into tech space big time with Jio Glass and Jio meet, we are changing our programs to fit into free to air model and hopefully in the next couple of months, we will able to give that experience to the large audience who are seeking international professional certification at their doorstep.
7. Why does India need more educators like you?
It is evident that India is well on its way to becoming knowledge superpower, world-guru and an economy of $5 trillion. We have two choices to make to remain professionally pessimist with continue doing things the way we used to or become a catalyst to the inevitable process of change.
Having seen both sides of the coin and having worked with the oldest universities like University of Toulouse (France), Glasgow Caledonian University (UK), and University of South Carolina (USA) and is being associated with professional education provider like CFA Institute (USA), by all means, I aspire to equip our fellow investment industry professionals with the experience, I have garnered over my 15 years of education the industry association so that India reaches its potential quickly and reliably.
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