Education is not a very strong point of Pakistan we hardly are able to meet our own requirements properly let alone to become an exporter of the education. Yet there is an organisation in Pakistan who became a trend setter in education and school management in Pakistan and did not stop just there it became world’s largest private school network with presence in ten countries.

School of Tomorrow is an educational conference that Beaconhouse organised ever five year with the aim to raise awareness and further the cause of education in the country and to share knowledge with the public and private educational sectors.

This year Beaconhouse has opened its doors and SOT is going to be a public event it will be an international educational and cultural festival taking place in Karachi on 28^th and 29^th of November.

Here are five reasons to attend SOT Karachi 2015.

1.    To understand how external forces impact education

The core idea behind SOT 2015 is to understand how external forces such as geopolitics and global security, media and digital technologies, art and culture and the environment and society are shaping 21st century schools and to propose new directions for the future.

2.    What School of Tomorrow will be like?

SOT addresses key topics such as the future of schools/schooling, best classroom practices around the world, pedagogy (review of current methodology and future directions and external forces and factors which influence education.

3.    Free event, 50+ jam-packed session, 150+ speakers

School of tomorrow is a free public event this year which will be showcasing four parallel session every one hour for two days making over fifty jam-packed, exciting sessions on various aspects of education, culture, media, digital technology etc. These sessions will be conducted by over 150 speakers including Paul Beedle, Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, Sanjay Rajoura, Carl “Energizer” Olson and many more.

4.    Holistic sessions on education schooling and culture

The word school of tomorrow gives a feel that it will be all about schooling and education, pretty much boring stuff which might not be of general public’s interest. However, SOT has lined up quite exciting sessions such as session on sports as career featuring speakers like Sana Mir, Aisam ul Haq, Olympian Islahuddin and Younis Khan, Sessions on impact cartoons have on our cultural and child’s behavior, session on digital privacy and cyber-crime bill, sessions on drama, art literature, cultural featuring speakers like Sania Saeed, Adnan Malik, Bina Shah, Daniyal Norani, HSY, Jami (Morr Fame) Sarmad Khoosat, Harsh Narayan, Sheryl Rogers, Sheema Kirmani, and Omair Rana.

5.    It’s a CSR activity

This is technically fifth edition of SOT, this time SOT is a public event rather than keeping it a schools and educators only event like previous editions. SOT is an event in the spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility one of the six themes of this years’ SOT is ‘Public-Private Education Partnership’, which indeed is a need of hour because this partnership can help improve the educational standards and quality of education at the public schools and SOT is a great opportunity to learn and understand how this partnership can work and what are the potential benefits out of this exercise.