Belagavi bizwoman heads to Japan to study country’s education system

Belagavi: Laxmi Khilari (in picture), the managing director of a city-based start-up Education India, has been invited to Japan for a comprehensive study about the education system of that country which is considered one of the best in the world.
Laxmi will lead a team of 25 educationists from South Asia who will study the basic elements of Japanese schooling, where the students don’t take any exams until they reach the age of 10. Instead, they just take small tests. It is believed that the goal for the first three years of school is not to judge a child’s knowledge or learning but to establish good manners.
Laxmi will leave for Japan in July. She will visit reputed schools for almost a week. She will also meet the officials in Japan’s ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology and seek their technical help to uplift rural education in India.
“My primary goal is to understand the virtues of Japanese education,” Laxmi said in a release.
Laxmi, who hails from the small town of Chikodi, has taken Education India to more than 300 schools not only across the country, but also to the Gulf.