By Autar Nehru In nutshell nothing much will change for school education in short or medium term after this hype around NEP 2020 subsides. Take an average good school and you’ll find much of what this policy says starting from medium of instruction to foreign languages, clubs (now circles), project-based learning etc, is already in practice there. You just need …

India’s 20,500 private teacher education/training colleges constituting 93% of the total school teachers training capacity available in the country are up in arms as announcement of the new National Policy on Education is round the corner. Their apprehension is that if recommendations contained in the draft NEP are in reality reflected in the new policy, it will spell a death …

The making of the New National Policy on Education (NPE) has moved into its final phase with finalization of a 55-page draft and all indications are that the new NPE could be announced in this month (December) before the end of this year 2019. The ‘final’ draft has not been released though it is widely in private circulation on social …

While speaking on the draft NEP at an event organized by Globalised Education Forum (GEF) of Indian Chamber of Commerce on ‘New Education Policy and the Road Ahead’  in New Delhi on Dec 5, former school education secretary, Anil Swarup said that there is a need to set up an institutional framework for evaluating the impact of startups in the …

IN A NEW TWIST to the two and half year old formulation process of the  New National Policy on Education, a nine –member committee under the Chairmanship of eminent Scientist and former ISRO chief Dr K. Kasturirangan has been constituted for the preparation of  the final draft of the policy by the MHRD. No timeframe has been announced for this …

THE ‘DEFINITION’ of a university as told by India’s first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru while addressing the graduates of Allahabad University in 1947 will remain timeless and relevant whenever one thinks hard about an ideal university. He had said, “A University stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth. …