UNDERSTANDING NEP 2020 MADE EASY
NEP 2020: A comparison with the 1986 education policy
NEP 2020 is an attempt to balance local and global human resource needs of growing India economy. Given the introduction of NEP 2020, it is important to understand the changes introduced by NEP 2020 vis-à-vis NPE 1986.
FOCUS ON AUGMENTING INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY
NEP 2020 focuses on augmenting individual capacity and achieving excellence in the field of your choice by providing customisable options for education while hoping to reduce regulation via provision of more internal autonomy to institutions. This is evident from reducing number of educational regulators to one and from the fact that the new NEP 2020 will facilitate subject selection, software training in schools, transfer of credits, multiple entries, and exit system.
FOCUS ON AUGMENTING INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY
NEP 2020 focuses on augmenting individual capacity and achieving excellence in the field of your choice by providing customisable options for education while hoping to reduce regulation via provision of more internal autonomy to institutions. This is evident from reducing number of educational regulators to one and from the fact that the new NEP 2020 will facilitate subject selection, software training in schools, transfer of credits, multiple entries, and exit system.
Here are some general doubts about NEP2020 prevailing among students and parents
- The NEP also talks about granting graded autonomy to colleges, in a move that will phase out affiliation of colleges to universities in the next 15 years.
- As far as teaching is concerned, a new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, NCFTE, will be framed by 2021. The BEd degree is likely to become a four-year integrated course by 2030.
- Extreme emphasis has been given to digitalisation of higher education and open learning systems to boost the GER.
- Online courses, digital repositories, student services towards making this a reality will likely be developed. An autonomous body, the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), will also be created to encourage the use of technology in college education.