Globally there are over 1.5 billion students with over 60 million teachers. In India there are currently over 1.5 million K-12 schools with a student base of approximately 250 million making it one of the largest in the world. 25% of these are private schools accounting for 40% of the student enrolment. The number of teachers employed in the k-12 sectors was 9.7 Million. The number of students enrolled in higher education in India was over 40 Million across over 50000 colleges and universities. There are over 5 Million teachers employed in the higher education sector where 78.6% of the colleges are run by the private sector accounting for 66.3% of the enrolments. Globally, over 5 million students migrate for education mainly to the USA, UK, Canada, China, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and Spain. Approximately 450,000 students migrated from India to study abroad in 2021 just behind China which accounted for over 800,000 students migrating.

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As technology advances, the nature of jobs are getting redefined. The last decade marked the rise of disruption across all sectors and this brought to fore the lack of employable skilled workers and hence the discussion of how relevant the education system is to address the change in this rapidly metamorphosing environment. While the curriculum needs a major overhaul, the teachers too need a massive upgrade. The need to include skill based programs which involve art, craft, music, soft skills, social skills, character skills and other key life skills from an early age is an extremely important step needed to gear the youth into the next decade and beyond.