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Possible Solution For SDG4:Quality Education 1
Possible Solution For SDG4:Quality Education 1
9 December 2021
Possible solution for SDG4:Quality Education 2
Problem Statement
In today’s times, almost everything has changed compared to what it was 100 years ago
but the ‘almost’ doesn’t include the education system because it has not changed in over a
century because of that the schools don’t focus on skill-development of a student. It focuses on
filtering students for colleges this only benefits some students at the cost of others, some who
might have the potential to develop not so common yet important skills are discarded. This only
lets some children get the quality education they need while others suffer.
The filtering of students cannot be stopped without a major change of the current
education system but we can incorporate skill-based learning with the current education system
where students can pick their own curriculum and are not forced to learn subjects that they don’t
want to, even for a few days a month. Skill-based learning is important because decacorn
companies like Google, Apple, Amazon etc. hire on the basis of ability to do a task rather than a
degree, in fact, more than 14% of people working at Google have never gone to a college.
Value Proposition
The project will provide different outcomes to different individuals because of the
freedom provided by the project but some expected common outcomes are
Increase in Individuality
The project will help students be more distinctive with different likings and dislikings
because after trying many things they will realise what they are really passionate about and what
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they don’t like this will help them be easily distinguishable among a crowd of people without
these qualities
Skills are supposed to be acquired by doing, and the best way to master a skill is through
trial and error, unlike traditional knowledge-based learning where information is spoon-fed to
students and they are supposed to memorize it. This trial and error makes students learn a life
lesson and would not be scared after making a mistake and would work on fixing it.
The students will have full control over what they learn, this will grant them a chance to
learn many things which they can use practically and not just theoretically. Having multiple
skills will also help them learn other skills because everything is really interconnected in the
practical world unlike in knowledge-based learning where students learn about 1 subject and one
subject only, they don’t get to know how something simple can be a product of many subjects.
Proposed Tools
● Staff
○ Teachers
○ Management
○ Other Staff (Like lawyers for making agreements with the school)
● Instruments
○ Computers
○ Scientific Equipment
Financial Sustainability
Most of the income will go towards the salaries of staff and the remaining will be used to buy
more equipment and hire new teachers both of these combined will help in the growth and cover
more subjects and skills, this initial growth will start the never-ending cycle of growth and help
Implementation
To implement the plan, we would first start with an initial investment to hire a few
teachers who can teach basic subjects (mostly extracurricular subjects like computers) and for
the equipment, we would be using the one that the school is able to provide after that we can start
becoming independent of the school and hire more teachers. After a certain point, we can start
expanding from a school to a few schools this will start the growth loop and help expand. If
everything goes to plan and this project starts changing the mentality of many people then it is
possible that the whole education system can be shifted to incorporate more skill-based learning
even if bit by bit. This will help reach the ultimate goal where all schools have skill-based
Outputs
Initially, we want to start with a single school, use their equipment and have a few
subjects. After the initial phase, we want to become completely independent of the school and
start expanding to other schools while also increasing the number of subjects and equipment we
have. We will keep expanding after the second phase and once all the students and parents
realise the importance of skill-based learning we could start to ask for changes in the current
education system and the authorities might start implementing more skill-based learning in the
curriculum. This will exponentially increase the amount of skill-based learning and help us
expand until all the schools are using skill-based learning to teach their students.
Long-Term Outcomes
Our long-term goals include reforming the education system to follow skill-based learning which
helps to achieve the ultimate goal of having quality education for everyone. Another long-term
goal is to change our strategy from teaching students to training teachers when skill-based
learning starts to get adopted because not all schools will want to outsource the teachers so we
can help train the school’s teachers with help of the experience we will have at the time.