Kozhikode: Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal has said that if the State government can ensure land for setting up the campus then the Ministry will consider sanctioning an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kozhikode.

Addressing the members of the Malabar Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Taj Gateway here on Sunday, the Minister announced the winds of change which the education sector of the country will experience with the promise of sanctioning one more Kendriya Vidyalaya to the region.

Sibal spoke on the "Relevance of world-class education in the changing scenario," and said that the term 'world class education' is an often misunderstood by people.

The term is always relative to the contemporary situation's challenges in the education sector.

"In a bid to make an effort to reach our goal of world class education we must ensure that all our children should go to school," said the Minister, adding that the schools should identify and nurture the talent of each student.

India is a country where tens of millions of students do not go to schools for various reasons, reminded Sibal, and said that, "For that kind of change to come in, we need to prepare ourselves to get away from the old concepts and mindsets about education."