India, Sept. 18 -- Today's markets and the lives of students are very different from the need of the emerging markets and the students for whom the existing education systems were developed. In such scenarios, there is a persisting question that needs to be answered - how can education best prepare the youth to navigate their way through an increasingly interconnected, complex and demanding market and the world in which theoretical recall will matter less than their ability of understanding perspectives and befit unconventional job roles.

India is encountering unique social, economic and environmental challenges driven by accelerating globalisation and a faster rate of technological sophistication. At the same time, those strengths are p...