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Dr. Biswajit Saha
Director (Trainings and Skill Education)
CBSE		 Dr. Biswajit Saha is Director of Trainings and Skill Education in CBSE, New Delhi. Dr. Saha manages the works of skill curriculum design, development of Student Resource Books, and Training Manuals. He also monitors the execution of various Teachers Training Programs by 16 CBSE-Centres of Excellence.

Before joining CBSE in 2011, Dr. Saha was a faculty member and HOD (CSE) at Government Engineering College Agartala. Dr. Saha also served as OSD (Technical Education), Government of Tripura, and worked with Tripura Central University and NIC, and the Government of India in various capacities.Dr. Saha handled execution of various development projects of World Bank, AICTE, UGC, and MeitY. He had actively participated in the drafting of NVEQF, NSQF notified by MHRD &MSDE in 2012 & 2013 respectively. He drives promotion of future skill in schools with strong industry association, and oversees Digital Education Movement under VidyaDaan @ DIKSHA

Dr. Saha is a member of various National and International Committees constituted by AICTE, State Higher Education Council, DGT, NCTE, MoE, MSDE and so forth.


Nick Sample
School Program Senior Manager
Arm
  		 Nick Sample is Senior Manager on the Arm School Program. He is a member of the UK Digital Skills Partnership Computing in Schools delivery group and sits on the Strategic Board of the Cambridge Maths Hub. Prior to joining Arm, Nick worked in educational product development and assessment across the UK, US, Middle East and Caribbean regions, for companies including Pearson, Macmillan Education, Hodder, and Cambridge Assessment.

The Arm School Program was established in 2018 as part of Arm Education. We work with schools and partners to support communities of practice and enable research into STEM and computing education. We also offer a growing range of free-to-access resources available at arm.com/schools.


Robert Leeman
Educational Solutions Manager
Arm
 Robert Leeman is the Educational Solutions Manager on the Arm School Program, with a background in Computer Science teaching, assessment, and curriculum development. He started out as a network engineer installing schools’ fibre optic networks, before moving into teaching in secondary schools, leading departments in achieving outstanding results in Information Technology and Computer Science. Rob then worked for Cambridge Assessment, reforming the Computer Science A-Level and GCSE in the UK and developing assessment products for international clients, before joining Arm.

Rob sits on the Computing at School board and chairs the Curriculum Working Group for both CAS and BCS. Rob seeks to empower all learners with the opportunity to develop the interest, knowledge, and skills that enable a lifetime of engagement in STEM and promote the effective application of technology to teaching & learning.
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