Maharashtra Zilla Parishad teacher Ranjitsinh Disale, winner of Global Teacher Prize 2020, has been appointed as the education advisor to the World Bank. According to reports, the appointment has been made for the period from June 2021 to June 2024.
The Bank has launched a programme called "Global Coach", to improve the quality of training for teachers around the world.
According to reports, the objective of this programme is to increase the level of educational attainment of children around the world, to bring more coherence in the in-service training program for teachers around the world, to provide timely training to teachers, and to develop leadership qualities in teachers through training.
Soon after Disale was appointed as education advisor to World Bank, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar congratulated the teacher from Maharashtra.
Ranjitsinh Disale is a primary school teacher from Paritewadi in Solapur in Maharashtra. He was the winner of Global Teacher Prize 2020 and member of the judging panel for the Global Student Prize. He had and member of the judging panel for the Global Student Prize.
Meanwhile, six new task forces on widening access to higher education, addressing high costs, tackling student debt and improving mental health will be championed by the top 50 finalists of the inaugural Global Student Prize, which is to be announced in August.
Ranjitsinh Disale welcomed the initiative as a means to address unequal access to learning. “These new task forces, which will put the student voice front and centre in addressing the challenges facing higher education in a post-COVID world,” Disale told PTI.
“COVID is the greatest threat to global education the world has ever seen. But even when the pandemic is over, when students return to their lecture halls, we cannot go back to the old way of doing things,” he said.
“We must learn the lessons and hard truths COVID has exposed – that the high cost of university puts it beyond the reach of poorer students, that the online solutions many universities employed are not available to all, and that many students are struggling with the cost of living and with their mental health,” Disale added.
(With inputs from PTI)