For many globally mobile professionals the world over, achieving alignment between careers and raising a family is not easy, writes Thangam Pillai of the 21K School in India. One of the biggest challenges professionals face is the disruption to their child’s education caused by relocation or projects away from home.
W
hile the adults in the family are fine with moving, schooling for younger family members is almost always a concern, particularly when moves need to happen
during the academic year, a time regarded as sacrosanct. Yet India, a forerunner in adopting technological
advancement, has until now lacked a proper solution for the common pain point of how to keep children’s education intact during extensive globetrotting. Preethi Janji, a change manager in one of the UAE’s
top companies, had to pivot from a promising career just because she didn’t want to change her child’s school. Working as an ERP consultant in 2010, she was offered an implementation project in Kenya. It was a big opportunity, but needed her to relocate for 6 to 12 months. As a consultant, it was her dream assignment. However, she rejected it so that her child’s school routine was not affected. Online classes didn’t exist in those days, she rues,
“Today my son in practice gathers most of his knowledge from online channels and his studies have become more assignment/project-based, instead of the ‘set’ syllabus. If these options existed earlier, I would have been able to take up the short-term assignments.” Zuana, working with a prominent NGO, prioritised
the work she was doing for the different tribal communities in India. Unfortunately, her son Aditya had to face a lot of difficulties every time they had to move as the different schools had different syllabi. “Online schools would have been the perfect solution to my child’s education as he could have followed the same syllabi instead of shifting between the state, central and even IGSCE at times!” 21K succeeds at solving this problem for relocating
parents through its online education platform, bringing education to the child instead of the other way round.
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