NEP 2020: Features And Role In School And Higher Education

Abstract

 After almost five years after the first committee to draft a new National Education Policy, NEP, was constituted, on Wednesday, the Union Cabinet approved the NEP 2020.

The education policy 2020 aims to restructure both school and higher education in India. The NEP envisions a ‘Light and Tight’ single regulatory higher education system and a school education system that focuses more on experiential learning than rote learning. For higher education, it proposes an undergraduate programme that will last three or four years and offer multiple exits with certificate, diploma or degree qualifications. The national Education policy 2020 envisions an Indian centered Education  system that contributes directly to transforming our Nation sustainably into an aquitable vibrant knowledge in education. The New Education Policy 2020 (NEP) announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development is to bring in changes in the current, dying 34-year-old policy in schools and higher education systems in the country. The new policy is more practical in approach and is based on the ground reality of the country’s education scenario that puts more emphasis on the creativity and innovation as well as personality development of the students rather than expecting them to score high and mock up the content without getting

Keywords: New Education Policy 2020, Higher Education, innovative, futuristic, implementation, multidisciplinary, regulatory, density, age structure

Laxman Dhakad , Narendra  Kumar Sharma

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