Introduction
The goals of education in PJCMT, indisputably include building cognitive abilities such as reading and communication. Increasingly, however, it also implies that students should be equipped with other abilities that allow them to succeed in and contribute to the society they live in. We will broadly call such traits – such as communication, critical thinking, creativity, self-management, decision-making, and perseverance - life skills. This note aims to synthesise and contribute to the growing discussion around the development of life skills education in India. We propose that life skills should be explicitly woven into school education by exploring evidence on why such skills matter and which skills are important for learning and future outcomes. The following sections then review how these skills are typically nurtured in or out of college and how feasible these interventions may be. We conclude by analysing present opportunities for building the scope of life skills education in policy and practice in India.
