By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR:The Ministry of Education, under India’s BRICS chairship 2026, is scheduled to host the 13th BRICS Education Ministers’ Meeting and the 3rd BRICS Senior Officials’ Meeting from August 5–7, 2026 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Union Education Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi to Participate in the 13th BRICS Education Ministers’ Meeting to be Held in Odisha.
These meetings would bring together education ministers, senior officials and delegates from BRICS member countries to discuss topics of collaboration, including the following priority areas:
(a) Strengthening Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE);
(b) Strengthening skill development and enhanced cooperation under the BRICS TVET Cooperation Alliance (TCA);
(c) Promoting collaborative research, innovation and start-ups;
(d) Strengthening Mutual Recognition of Qualifications (MRQ); and
(e) Capacity building for academic leadership.
India’s BRICS chairship is guided by the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”, reflecting the people-centric and humanity-first approach articulated by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, at the 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The 13th Education Ministers’ Meeting and the 3rd Senior Officials’ Meetings would build upon a series of engagements held under the BRICS Education Track during India’s chairship. The 1st and 2nd BRICS Senior Officials’ Meetings were held earlier on 7th and 28th April 2026, respectively, followed by the BRICS Network University Conference and International Governing Board Meeting on July 20 –21, 2026. The previous engagements have helped shaped discussions and build consensus on the priority areas and proposed outcomes for the Ministerial Meeting.
Ahead of the 13th Education Ministers’ Meeting, the BRICS TVET Symposium and the Joint Management Committee (JMC) meeting of the BRICS TVET Cooperation Alliance were also held in New Delhi on August 3–4, 2026, led by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. These engagements seek to deepen cooperation among BRICS countries in technical and vocational education and training, skills development and workforce preparedness and to consolidate and exchange research and best practices across the priority themes.
Alongside these high-level inter-governmental engagements, India’s BRICS chairship is placing strong emphasis on youth participation and people-to-people exchanges. In this spirit, Model BRICS has been conceptualised as a student-focused initiative to be organised on the sidelines of BRICS Ministerial Meetings across India. The initiative seeks to familiarise young citizens with BRICS processes while strengthening their understanding of diplomacy, multilateral cooperation and consensus-building.
