Learning is not the product of Teaching… Learning is the product of the activity of the Learners…

 

CADET RACHANA 

HR19SWN269651

D.A.V. CENTENARY COLLEGE

1 HR NU NCC UNIT, FARIDABAD

The National Education Policy is erected on the foundational pillars of access, quality, affordability and accountability. The policy is for sustainable development and aims to revise and overhaul the education system in our country, including its regulations and governance by making both school and college education more holistic, flexible and multidisciplinary.

The central government, through this policy has more outreach than the old National Education Policy by encompassing students from age of 3 years instead of the previous age of five years.

The important highlights of national education policy are:

SCHOOL EDUCATION

The NEP emphasises on ensuring universal access to school education at all levels i.e. from pre-school to secondary. Further, the earlier structure of “10+2” has been replaced by a “5+3+3+4” curriculum structure corresponding to ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively.

All students will take school examination in grade 3, 5 and 8 which will be conducted by the appropriate authority. Board exams for grades 10^th and 12^th will be conducted but redesigned with holistic development as the central aim. This additional classification of students based on age groups helps not only the government to implement age specific norms for educating the students but also helping the school in developing curriculums and syllabus which implants knowledge more efficiently based on age.

Further, the policy also aims to blur the lines between the current, rigid ‘streams’ concept, in which the students are mandated to opt for either arts, commerce or science. It proposes to give enhance degree of flexibility to students after grade 10^th board by allowing them to choose subject of their choice rather than force streams on them.

The National Education Policy ambitiously proposes to implement a three language formula under this, it is proposed that two out of three languages i.e. mother tongue/local language/ regional language will be asked as the medium of instruction at least till grade 5, but may be extended further till grade 8 and beyond.

HIGHER EDUCATION

There has been consistency shown by National Education Policy by which respect to the continuous reforms related to the higher education sphere in our country. One of the main challenges with higher education in our country is low GER. The policy aims to tackle the same by making education policies much more flexible in favour of the students and providing them with more options to complete their higher education.

The major changes include implementing a four year undergraduate program. This program will be multi-disciplinary in nature and will allow the students with multiple entry and exit points with appropriate certification.

Under the new policy, high performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries, and similarly selected universities e.g. those from among the top 100 universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India.

Jai Hind

#NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020

"MANURING THE ROOTS OF EDUCATION TO BUILD A STRONG NATION"

CADET NUPUR PATWAL

HR 18 SWN 269655

DAV CENTENARY COLLEGE

1 HR NAVAL UNIT NCC

 FARIDABAD

 

“Roots of Education are bitter but the fruit is sweet "a great quote by Aristotle. But what  if the base of education is not made properly? It is the condition of new education policy 2020 implemented by the government of India after 34 years. In this article we are focusing about pros and cons of an NEP on higher education.

There are major challenges that we have to face off with but the first and foremost is is the language of education we Indians are known for our coders and software programmer all over the world . It is because we have familiarity with English language.

But according to this policy English as a medium of teaching will go out of school. Which will affect us in a long-term?

Another allegations made against the NEP is that it is promoting a centralization in our education system, that attempts are being made to centralized it in such a wide  nation. There was a time when the founding fathers had kept education as a state subject it was put in the  concurrent list in 1976.

According to NEP-2020 all educational institutions will be governed by the committees constituted by Centre Govt. for different purposes and all educational institutions have to follow the policies made by them.

As  an example if it look at a country like Canada which also has federalism there is no centralization of education  there so this is believed to be a blow to our federal structure.

Another allegation clubbed with this is that and it is a drive towards privatization.

 

Moving on to the researches in higher education our statistics have been deteriorating day by day. It is something that the policy should have focused upon. our neighbor  country China which has dominating us on the basis of research institution and “Make in China” policies spend is maximum GDP on research Innovation and higher education but on the other side we talking about becoming 'AATMNIRBHAR' and 'MAKE IN INDIA' falling down the statistics to 0.6% to 0.06% of GDP.

 Then the question arises - How will it be implemented?. Is there were talks about assigning 6% of GDP to education in 1984. But the every government who came in power stuck to their promises of giving 6% of GDP but giving 3% maximum. Then how will it immediately bump 3% to 6%.

 Furthermost perhaps the biggest issue if the policy is that humongous to brought in. Then why there is no such kind of debates and discussions on this topic on parliament. Why the parliament  had been entirely bypassed to bring NEP? This is the point to think about.

Now moving  to the pros of NEP.

A lot of things will change right from schooling until college. Now, you can study majors and minors like in American universities.

There are multiple entry and exit options as well. You could study in college for one year two year 3 year or also does an extra year research in college.

You can exit or enter as you like. you would be provided with different degree. Attention has been given to flexible education and choice of subject. You could make your education multi-disciplinary.

Finally the most important the top universities of the world will be allowed to setup campuses in India. This will raise the bar of competition between Indian institutes and foreign institutes and the quality of education will definitely improve in India.

so as we know the new education policy is implemented so we have great challenges to face off with but as the youth of India we will make sure that the upcoming years will be  the best years in our history of education.

Jai Hind

#NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020