Impact of Industry 6.0 on the Education Sector Specially with Reference to Management Education

Industry 6.0 is an emerging concept that extends earlier industrial paradigms toward hyper-connected, AI-driven, adaptive, and sustainability-oriented systems. Recent literature describes it as a cognitive and autonomous industrial environment built around technologies such as generative AI, advanced digital twins, pervasive connectivity, and distributed intelligence. In the education sector, these shifts are pushing institutions to redesign teaching, curriculum, assessment, and governance. The present paper examines the impact of Industry 6.0 on education with special reference to management education. The study is conceptual and descriptive in nature and is based on secondary sources. The paper finds that Industry 6.0 is likely to reshape management education through personalized learning, AI-enabled decision support, simulation-based pedagogy, stronger industry-academia integration, and greater emphasis on sustainability, ethics, innovation, and interdisciplinary skills. At the same time, concerns relating to academic integrity, data privacy, faculty readiness, and digital inequality remain significant. The paper concludes that management institutions must move from conventional content delivery to future-ready, technology-enabled, human-centered learning systems.