India, Jan. 31 -- Digital platforms have reshaped how education is delivered. What remains ope is how much of that move teacher education can absorb without thinning out the human core of teaching.

That tension sits at the centre of a recent Voice of Clarity podcast conversation between Dr. Rashee Singh, professor and head of the School of Education and Humanities at Manav Rachna University, and Rashima Vaid-Varma, dean of the same school. Rather than making sweeping claims about technology's promise, the discussion returns to a narrower, more difficult question: how teachers are prepared for classrooms that are changing faster than the profession itself.

For Vaid-Varma, the concern is not access or efficiency, but erosion.

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