‘The country’s future is shaped in classrooms’: NCTE member opens AU programme on generative AI
Andhra University has launched a five-day faculty development program focused on integrating generative AI into education. Experts emphasized the role of the National Education Policy 2020 in modernizing classrooms and preparing students for a technology-driven future.
Why it matters
The integration of AI into teacher training is critical for the digital transformation of national education systems.
The future of the country will be shaped in classrooms, said K. Pushpanadham, Coordinator-NEP (2020) and member of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Department of Educational Administration, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
He was speaking after inaugurating a five-day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on ‘Generative AI in Education and Training: Integrating Moral Values, Ethics and NEP 2020 for Transforming Teaching-Learning’, organised by the Department of Education, Andhra University, on Monday (September 7, 2026).
Mr. Pushpanadham said the programme would provide a national forum for discussions on reforms in teacher education. He said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 had been introduced after nearly three-and-a-half decades and would yield results only when it was implemented in classrooms.
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