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will enable them to excel and emerge successful in real life situations of work and life. Te fscal competitiveness of a country depends on the skills of its work force. Te skilfulness and profciency of the work force, in turn, are reliant upon the quality of the country's education and training systems. Schools, therefore, should prepare and supply future workers with appropriate knowledge and expertise to augment their productivity and, therefore, promote economic growth. Our mission should be to strive for the strong foundation of young learners, which will facilitate them to become active participants in life-long learning and earning…!!! K.C. Garg Chairman, Rukmini Devi Public School, Pitampura, Delhi  Cooperative Learning: An Educational Paradigm of 21st Century Relevance Te ability to collaborate is becoming more and more important in today‘s world in which tasks are getting more and more interdisciplinary and complicated to accomplish. It is therefore essential to prepare students on collaborative tasks while they are in schools so that they can become competent team workers when they enter the workforce. Inevitably, cooperation and collaboration seem to overlap, but in the cooperative model of learning, the teacher still controls most of what is going on in the class, even if the students are working in groups. Collaborative learning, on the other hand, is aimed at getting the students to take almost full responsibility for working together, building knowledge together, changing and evolving together and of course, improving together. It is not that one approach is better than the other. It is that they should be understood as two diferent approaches. What must be recognised is that the approach must ft the learning context it is being applied to. Inevitably, what will determine the best approach will depend upon the level of preparation and skills of the students and teachers involved. It is our understanding that teachers interested in setting up collaborative projects are interested in working towards student autonomy and self-directed learning. Teachers and/or students may not be prepared or have the ideal conditions to set up a collaborative learning project right away, but it can be seen as a goal to strive for. A concerted efort has been made by Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi, in its curricula, through the efective implementation of CCE [Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation] or more meaningfully Child Centric Education (CCE), to ensure that our children are prepared with the skills of collaborative team work, peer tutoring, shared knowledge, critical thinking leading to innovative thinking, with the web.2.0 tools and education st 3.0 methodologies. Collaborative learning is the new educational paradigm of the 21 Century which however th could not fnd its true relevance in the late 20 Century. Lalit Krishan Trivedi Director (VISTA) Vidya Sagar Trivedi Academy, Kashipur, Uttarakhand  42 Collaborative Learning