After breaking the convention of tabling a major policy document like National Education Policy in the Parliament by releasing it through a presser, the Government on September 14 presented a summarized snapshot of the highlights of the policy in the Parliament. Ministry of Education had announced the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) on 29.07.2020 and has been made available …
The education policy is essentially concerned to perform holistic development of students by fostering high-order ‘cognitive capacities’ along with ‘social, ethical and emotional capacities.’ These educational objectives are not entirely new, these were mentioned in the previous policies also but the point is that how strong minded the government is in attainment of these high goals writes, Komal Kapoor Our …
By Rajat Mukherjee and Monika Srivastava 5+3+3+4 will replace 10+2. This isn’t math magic. But a change in the framework of India’s school education proposed by the new National Education Policy. The ‘5’ in the proposed new framework includes two years of pre-schooling. The unmissable impact of this reconfiguration is that the previously unregulated (debatable, as discussed below) pre-school segment …
Exactly after a month, when he spoke on the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in great detail, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today (Sep 7) again shared his views on the policy in the inaugural session of Governors’ Conference on National Education Policy.’ While welcoming the wide-ranging debate and discussion over the policy, he called on the governors to hold similar …
By Dr. Reeta Sonawat It’s a proud moment for our country that after 34 years, the new National Education Policy (NEP) has finally seen the light of the day. The government and the committee needs to be congratulated for the hard work that’s gone into it for ensuring that the vision of millions of Indian educators, researchers and policymakers is …
From NPE to NEP, that is (National Policy on Education, 1986 to National Education Policy 2020), it is not only the ‘P’ that has changed the place after 34 years in the new policy document, but NEP appears to be an outright knock off document where instead of being a reform of the existing apparatus, building on the existing framework, …
