You are hosting prime time for one hour of an authentic TV channel, prepare outline of your conversation with one politician, educationist and expert of the program.
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The conversation would focus on the new educational policy and how education is a powerful tool, and even more so when used with social work. The participants in the programme would be a politician, an educationist and an expert (in the field of social work).
I would begin with the politician and ask him these main questions:
1. Where do you see India on the global level, ten years from now?
2. What role do you think does education play in the progress of a nation?
3. How effective is the education system in India?
4. How much importance do politicians give to education?
5. How can the regular citizens push for a budget increase for the education sector?
The questions for the educationist would include:
1. How well does the Indian educational system fulfill the needs of the nation?
2. Does the system focus on short term or long term goals? Why?
3. If you had to implement one element from the educational system of a foreign country, what would it be?
4. What else is missing from our system?
5. How can education and social work be clubbed to help the nation progress?
Questions for the expert in social work would be:
1. Given the large population of India, can social work actually make a difference? Why?
2. If you could ask the government for one favour, what would it be?
3. How can education increase the effectiveness of social work?
4. Is the new educational policy suited for promoting the social work culture amongst school children? How?
5. What according to you should be done to use education and social work together to spur positive change in society?
The aim of the conversation would be to form a clear connection between government policies (especially about resources), education, social work and progress.