NEP 2020
Title: Analysis of New Education Policy 2020 Changes
Abstract
The objective of this study is to undertake a detailed analysis of the changes made under New Education Policy 2020. This study evaluates the 5+3+3+4 structure formation of the education system. The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was approved by the Union Cabinet on 29th July 2020. It has presented specific new measures in the education system of India and replaced the earlier Education Policies. The first change in Education policy was made in 1968 and afterward in 1986 with a little revision in 1992. Now, after 34 years, our education policy has been changed. Although the factors which are important to ensure a well-rounded education are numerous and varied in nature,; this research looks into the strategy pitfalls and efficiency of NEP 2020. This study recognizes four significant parts of the system – course, language, students and teachers, for advanced education. In the process of analysing the efficacy of this model, the larger question it addresses relates to the benefits. The methodology for assessing the policy is through analysing the data which is downloaded from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) site and conducting interviews with different practitioners in the field. It was seen that the majority of individuals think about the policy as a positive and inviting step.
Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to undertake a detailed analysis of the changes made under New Education Policy 2020. This study evaluates the 5+3+3+4 structure formation of the education system. This research is accomplished with the aim to analyse the strategy pitfalls, efficiency and benefits of NEP 2020.
Keywords: National Education Policy 2020, NEP-2020, Challenges, Opportunities of NEP 2020
Research Methodology
We have collected the data from college students studying at University level. Furthermore, the research material is collected from e-sources such as MHRD website and some other websites. The information from the participants is gathered through Google Forms. The participants are encouraged to take part in the survey through social media platform.
Introduction
Education is one of the key elements that bring development and progress into society. More educated individuals, the more advantageous to society. This reality builds the significance of education and encourages the government to put resources into education more than previously. We get knowledge, ability, strategy making techniques and information which empowers us to know our rights and obligations towards our country and society. Education extends the vision towards the world. An educated individual can fight for injustice, brutality, corruption etc. Since freedom, India has consistently focused on developing education in both rural and urban regions.
Education in ancient India was meant for complete acknowledgment and freedom of oneself. The Indian education system created extraordinary Scholars like Aryabhata, Charaka, Susruta, Bhaskaracharya and a lot more. Their insight in the field of science, astronomy, mathematics, yoga and life science and many more are extinguished. The government has formed a new education policy by focusing on these points. It has tried to revive the basic beliefs, thoughts and core values of the ancient value system of India which were ignored by earlier education policies. In 2009, the Right to Education was brought into effect in India, which mandated free and compulsory education for children between the ages of 6-14. The NEP 2020 imagines an India-focused education system that contributes straightforwardly to changing our country reasonably into an even-handed and energetic information society, by giving top-notch education to all. It has come into existence at the most difficult times when we are facing a pandemic which we have not seen in over 100 years. However, Subramanian began the counsel interaction for the New Education Policy, yet in light of the Committee report, in June 2017, the draft NEP was submitted in 2019 by a board driven by previous Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chief Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan. The govt. of India runs many projects to upgrade essential and advanced education in India. In 2005, the National Curriculum system was presented for the planning of NCERT course books. Following 34 years on July 29, the Union Cabinet headed by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi supported another approach with an expectation to acquire insurgency in our education framework. The New Education Policy 2020 puts forth for itself the objective of rebuilding the education system to meet the prerequisites of 21st century India. The rich legacy of old Indian knowledge has been a light for this approach. The quest for data, truth and shrewdness is normally considered as the most noteworthy human objective in the Indian way of thinking.
Implementation of 5+3+3+4 Structure
The 10+2 system has been dropped out.5+3+3+4 education structure is introduced for the ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years individually. There will be 12 years of schooling with three years of Anganwadi/pre-tutoring. More emphasis on vocational training is given while discontinuing MPhil.
Key difference between 10+2 and 5+3+3+4 System
· The 10+2 system starts at the age of 6 years.
· The 5+3+3+4 system starts at the age of 3 years (pre-primary) only.
Different Stages of 5+3+3+4 Structure
5+3+3+4 system is divided into 4 stages
Foundational Stage – Duration of 5 years
It covers the age group of 3-8 years.
(3 years of pre-primary and 1 year of Class 1 and 1 year of Class 2).
Pre-primary level features
- No dress code (No school Uniform)
- Only for Playing
- No exams
Preparatory Stage –Duration of 3 Years
It covers the age group of 8-11 years
Class 3, Class 4, class 5 – 1 year each
Features
- Annual Exams starts
- Choice to study in mother tongue
- Students can choose English as their mother tongue.
Middle School Stage – Duration of 3 years duration
It covers the age group of 11 – 14 years.
Class 6, Class 7, Class 8 – 1 year each
Features
- Annual exams will also continue.
- The learning of coding and programming skills will be started from Class 6 onwards. The students will start to learn coding and making apps from the very starting age. Professional courses like carpentry, cooking, sewing, poultry, and so on will also be introduced from this stage. To gain experience, they can take Internship in Arts, and so on are likewise presented at this stage with a mandatory Indian Language.
Secondary or High School Stage – 4 years
It covers the age group of 14 – 18 years.
Class 9, Class 10, Class 11 and Class 12 – 1 year each
Features
- Semester system is introduced at this stage.
- Each year is partitioned into 2 semesters.
- Students will have to take 2 tests each year with a mandatory foreign language.
- 360 Degree Assessment Report Card is introduced. The quantitative and qualitative evaluation will be recorded in the report card.
Changes in Course
There will be credit-based courses and activities in environmental and value-based education. Environmental education will incorporate regions, for example, environmental change in climate, sterilization, preservation of organic variety, the management of natural assets and biodiversity, forest and wildlife protection and conservation. Value based Education will incorporate the improvement of humanistic, moral, Constitutional, and general human upsides. A science student can learn subjects of arts or humanities.
Changes in Language
A major change in new education policy has taken place at school and college level. Mother tongue or regional language will be the language of medium at least up to Grade 5. Also, no student will be forced to shift to a regional language from English as a medium of instruction. States, institutions, and schools are free to decide on the implementation of language. As per NEP, regional language is just a suggestion, not mandatory.
E-courses will be made accessible in regional languages: Technology is essential for educating, learning, appraisal, instructor, school, college and student education. The e-content will be accessible in regional languages especially in 8 languages – Kannada, Odia, Bengali etc.
Changes made under New Education Policy 2020 for College Education
A student can have a mix of subjects of her/his choice. For example, a student can opt a combination of Physics, Biology, History and Painting. It was not possible in the old education system.
• 4-year Bachelor Degree Course
Features
- Multi Entry
- Multi Exit
- No Stream System
Students will have various choices to enter and leave the course in between with a certificate. Their credits will be moved through Academic Bank of Credits. A college degree will be of three or four years. One can leave or enter the degree course any time.
- A bachelor degree and research certificate will be provided after the student finishes 4 years of study.
- A degree will be provided after the student finishes 3 years of study,
- A diploma certificate after the student finishes two years of study,
- A certificate after the student completes one year of study
The scores will be kept in an Academic Bank of Credit. The organizations will count the credit toward the end and put it at the level of the student. This will be useful for those people who may need to leave the course mid-way. Yet again they can begin the course later on.
• Post-Graduation of 1-2 years
The duration of the post-Graduation depends upon the duration of Bachelor degree.
If the student has completed the Bachelor degree of 3 years then she/he will have to pursue Post-Graduation for 2 years of master degree.
If the student has pursued Graduation for 4 years and has completed the research in the last and fourth year, then she/he will be allowed to do post-graduation for the duration of 1 year.
• Single Administrative Body
Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) would be the single administrative body for higher education, excluding legal and medical education. AICTE and UGC, NAAC etc. universities will be merged or replaced by another administration. Academic and Funding parts will be isolated from the education sector. HECI will have no monetary powers. The Ministry of Education will take care of the funding process. Earlier the funding process was handled by UGC. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) will be known as the Ministry of Education.
A Higher Education Council of India (HECI) will be set up to control and regulate higher education. The main objective of the council will be to expand the gross enrolment ratio.
The HECI will have 4 institutional structures:
| HECI Structure | |
| National Higher Education Regulatory Council (NHERC) | Guidelines |
| General Education Council (GEC) | Standard-Setting |
| Higher Education Grants Council (HEGC) | Subsidizing |
| National Accreditation Council (NAC) | Accrediting |
School administration is set to change, with another independent authorization system to direct both public and private schools.
• Use of Technology
Tech-based choice for grown-up learning through applications, TV channels: Quality innovation-based choices for grown-up learning, for example, apps, online courses/modules, satellite-based TV channels, online books, and ICT-prepared libraries and Adult Education Centres, and so on will be created.
• Internationalization of Education
Foreign universities will be allowed to open campuses in India and Indian Universities are also allowed to set up campuses anywhere in the world. As per the HRD Ministry document, the foreign universities will be given unique and special administration in regards to administration, regulatory, content standards and governance; comparable to other independent institutions of India. It will provide top-notch education at a lower level without voyaging to different nations for study and occupation possibilities. As per the different worldwide reviews, cross-line education is helpful for the economy and brings a more extensive degree of worldwide mindfulness, socially insightful and specialization.
• NTA Testing Administration
NTA will be a premier and independent testing organization. It will conduct Common Entrance tests for all higher education establishments such as UG, graduate admissions and fellowships in Higher Education institutes. It will be an optional exam. The excellence, reach, and adaptability of the NTA testing administrations will empower most colleges to utilize these normal admission tests – rather than having many colleges each concocting their own entrance tests. It will definitely decrease the weight on students, colleges and universities, and the whole education system. It will be the sole decision of colleges and universities to use NTA tests for their admissions.
• Affiliated Colleges to Independent Institutions
With proper accreditations, Autonomous degree-giving Colleges could turn into Research-concentrated or Teaching-intensive Universities. The declaration of setting up Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities (MERUs) in the nation gives more expectations. These establishments will be at standard with the current IITs and IIMs and will intend to feature multidisciplinary education for the Indian students.
• Human Values and Multidisciplinary Education
The goal of NEP 2020 is to develop scholarly, social, aesthetic, intellectual, physical, passionate, and moral qualities of human beings in an integrated manner. It will develop all-rounder that have 21st century capabilities in the fields of languages, social sciences, arts, humanities, sociologies, sciences, technical, professional and vocational fields; an ethic of social commitment; soft skills abilities, like correspondence, conversation and debate; and specialization in a picked field or fields. The NEP 2020 imagines one huge multidisciplinary Higher Education Institution (HEI) in or close to each area, by 2030.
Changes made under New Education Policy 2020 for School Education
· The universalization of education will be done from preschool to secondary level. It aims to achieve the 100 percent Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in the school education system by 2030. 2 crore younger students will be brought back into the standard learning through an open schooling framework.
· Class 10 and 12 board assessments to be made more straightforward, to test abilities rather than memorizing, with all students to take the exam two times i.e., the semester system from 9th to 12th. The 10th board is closed.
· There will be flexible division between academic streams, extracurricular, professional or vocational streams in schools.
· Professional i.e., vocational Education will begin from Class 6 with Internships.
· The assessment process is reformed with 360-degree Holistic Progress Card, following Student Progress for accomplishing Learning Outcomes.
Changes made under New Education Policy 2020 for Teacher
By and large the nature of any schooling system at inborn level relies upon the nature of its educators. One might say that educators are public intellectual people who shape the eventual fate of the country. A new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE) 2021 will be planned by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) with regard to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). By 2030, the base degree for teaching will be a 4-year coordinated B.Ed. degree.
The teachers will have to complete the training of 4 years, preparing them on the most proficient method to teach the students. There will also be a provision to include the students’ feedback on teachers.
Other Changes made under New Education Policy 2020
An independent body, the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), will be made to give a stage to the free exchange of thoughts on the utilization of innovation to improve learning, evaluation, administration and planning.
Public Assessment Centre-‘PARAKH’ has been made to evaluate the students. PARAKH is a government scheme. It represents Performance, Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development. On eleventh September, Prime Minister Modi tended to the conference on “School Education of the 21st Century” and reported the foundation of a National evaluation Center.
This appraisal community is to dissect and further develop the general assessment framework. The plan assesses higher request abilities which incorporate examination, decisive reasoning and theoretical clearness. Presently a student will have more pragmatic information and field work not exactly the erudite one. This independent foundation under the association training pastor will set standards for student appraisal and assessment for all educational committees the nation over, the greater part of which presently follow standards set by the state government.
The positive aspect of NEP 2020
- Internship is introduced at the age of middle school stage. It is not the requirement of only engineers but it is essential for all professionals.
- The funds are increased for the education sector from 3% to 6% of India’s GDP.
- Practical knowledge is very important for the students. It is introduced in the education system with the introduction of vocational training courses.
- Qualitative evaluation is introduced in the form of self-assessment, friend’s assessment and teachers’ assessment. It will improve the quality as a human and public relations.
- Top level universities can open their campuses in India. It will help to grow liberalisation-privatisation and globalisation.
- Multidisciplinary approach to teaching and research would create a wide knowledge base.
- NEP-2020 furnishes us with a guide for recovering, re-articulating and rebuilding the Bhartiya self for turning into a worldwide pioneer (Vishwaguru) where value, equity and society will be commended.
- It reduces the gap between Arts and Science students. The subjects will be STEM subjects, co-curricular activities, arts and extracurricular. The focus is to build interest in studies with a keen interest in arts, sports, life skills.
- There will be 10 days without bag. Children will be able to learn vocational or technical education as per their choice.
- Global education in home country will reduce brain drain to abroad.
- If the global standard of education will be provided in India, then no Indian student will ever have to look for neither the education nor for the job opportunities abroad which will also develop awareness towards cleanliness, environment, clean water, standard of living, economic growth and finally no poverty and peace and justice.
New Education Policy 2020 Pitfalls or Criticisms
- Introduce professional and vocational skills at an early stage. Class 6 is very early for students to get into various disciplines.
- Absence of admittance to HE, particularly in socio-monetarily underdeveloped regions which brought about the current gross enrolment ratio (GER) of 25%.
- The NEP 2020 proposes to allocate the funds as 6% of GDP to the education sector. The government has already imposed 2% education cess since 2004 thinking that it will boost the Indian Education System. Now the question is will 2% be part of the primary budget or an extra burden. Will it be easy to manage funds at this time of corona?
- Most of the colleges and universities lack innovation and research.
- A corrupted administrative framework permitting counterfeit colleges to flourish while obliging incredible and innovative institutions
- The NEP 2020 has avoided parliamentary oversight, conversation and examination. It has been brought when parliament is not working because of COVID-19; this is a somewhat hurried approach, one which is by all accounts pointed toward scoring a political point. Individuals from Parliament have been kept out of critical conversations and analysing the policy critically or communicating their perspectives and proposing changes.
- The NEP-2020 has attempted to establish a framework of figuring out how each new student is to be added to the system. The inquiry is here are the Anganwadi focuses or the elementary schools were given the opportunity to attempt better approaches for learning. The inquiry emerges on how school preparation can be accomplished with a proper infrastructural change. It will be really troublesome to accomplish the objective without procedural alterations.
- The policy emphasizes on the common entrance test for admission and common recruitment test. How will these tests enhance the quality of education?
- At present, CBSE gives choices to choose the different subject combination after 10th. But a student has to choose the subject combination as given by the school. How will the language and course policy be properly applied?
- A student can take a break from the current course and can opt for another course. Afterwards, he can come back for an earlier course. What’s about the institution? Will they allow such movements?
- Multiple entry and exit can make the students careless.
- Giving more importance to online education will ultimately reduce the importance of colleges, universities and research institutes.
- However, bestowing knowledge to every stage is important, the NEP 2020 introduces the 3-language learning making the way for the knowledge of foreign languages. But the Chinese language is not introduced in the list of foreign language categories. It would be advisable to include Chinese by keeping in mind the developments made by Chinese companies and China.
- The most noteworthy need of the schooling system will be to accomplish all inclusive essential literacy and numeracy in primary school by 2025.
- Privatisation is promoted in the name of innovation and out of box thinking.
- Absence of educator and institutional independence to make innovation in HE to attract students.
- Lacking systems for progression of professionals such as educators, faculty and institutional pioneers. There is a lack of funds and infrastructure. At present a large number of teachers are appointed temporary and contract based. How the funds and infrastructure will be well organised to achieve the purpose of NEP 2020. The teachers are the backbone of the education system and the policy doesn’t talk about their welfare.
- The approach recognizes the intense lack of educators in the public schooling system. To supply the demand for trained educators, the policy accentuated the need to build the quantity of teacher training institutes and lay out multi-disciplinary universities. At present there are a variety of teacher training institutes existing in the country under government as well as private administration offering different degree and certificate courses. No funds are allocated for the welfare of teachers; the biggest reform for teachers is to increase the duration of teacher training programmes. To improve the quality of teachers, the teacher training courses will be of 4 years. What’s about the special shorter local teacher education programmes to be available in BITEs and DIETs.
- The policy incorporates the pre-primary classes with level 1 and 2, yet there is no guide to plan educators for the equivalent. Nothing is said with regards to arrangement of standard instructors and how it will affect the work of Aganwadi labourers. The private schools are free to go on with nursery classes as it is. Anyway, nothing is said regarding the appointment and training of educators in private schools.
- The medium of language will be mother tongue up to Grade 8 however for at least Grade 5. This will increase the demand for nearby local language instructors. Notwithstanding, when the world is coming at a similar stage to exchange and impart, there is more prominent significance of worldwide global language rather than nearby local language.
- Adaptability of NEP 2020 by parents, teachers and students is an important factor.
- It’s been a long time since Independence and India has not had a single university of a worldwide global standard that could actually have gotten the best 200 university records in the world. We observe anything to come right into it requires a very long time in India. Indeed, even the amendment of the New Education Policy has taken the time period of five long years to introduce its last draft which was acknowledged and declared by the central cabinet in July 2020. Prior education policies of 1968 and 1986 then corrected in 1992 has taken years to come into action. The constituent of India talks about the free and compulsory education for every child of the country. Until 2009, this aim was not achieved, so the government had to bring RTE – 2010. Even till now the execution of the Right to Education Act do we see the obligation to ground reality? A long time has passed since RTE came into force yet there are so many kids who are still not getting the free and mandatory education.
- The NEP 2020 has opened the doors for foreign universities. But do we, especially the economically weaker section, have funds to get access to this foreign university campus? Will there be any reservation policy? Is India ready to accept the foreign culture?
- The foreign universities are welcomed to open their branch campuses in India. The main objective of policy makers behind this is that it would stop the brain from leaving India for global studies. To get the international level of study is not the only aim behind leaving India. The real aim behind leaving India for higher education is to get job placement at the places where they go for studies. Students mainly go to Canada, the United States, Australia, etc. They want to get a high pay scale job after the completion of their studies. If the student gets higher education from a foreign university’s campus in India, then it will not guarantee the job in a specific country. Students make a correlation between potential high returns and high cost of their studies.
- Many of these top universities are already giving financial aid to brilliant students. These colleges are paying higher charges as compared to getting fees by opening a campus in India.
- The decision to open a foreign university’s campus will purely depend on the profit made by the campus in future. There is no clarity for this purpose.
Implementation of NEP 2020
India has around 310 million students studying from class 1 to higher education and with 25 million being added each year, the genuine test lies in making the NEP 2020 beneficial to every one of these. The accomplishment of NEP will empower making India worldwide global leader.
NEP 2020 focuses on the increment in gross enrolment ratio. This objective will be achieved with the help of recruiting new teachers, establishment of school and institutes and colleges for higher education along with the help of volunteers. The Indian education system has started this programme with volunteers. In some of the schools of Delhi and adjoining states, NEP 2020 project is given to accomplish by the students. In this project, every student has to teach an illiterate student for 10 hours. Every student will work as a volunteer. They will also donate their old books to illiterate students. After the completion of the project, the student will create a report stating that
- What has she/he taught them?
- What difficulties have been faced by them?
- How easy was it for them?
- They also have to attach their picture with the student.
- A large number of students have accomplished this NEP project as a part of National Education policy 2020.
The actual deadline to implement the NEP 2020 is 2030. The state government has started declaring to implement the NEP 2020.
State of Karnataka
Karnataka has played a lead role in implementing the New Education Policy and become the first state to issue the order regarding implementation of NEP 2020 in August, 2021.
Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraja Bommai sent off Admission Module according to NEP-2020. The new digitalisation, innovative and development education policy will be carried out and the essential and auxiliary training gathering will be laid out with the target of changing and engaging the education scene of Karnataka.
According to Bommai, due preference will be given to the impending the policy through the financial budget of the state.
State of Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh government has issued the order regarding implementation of the newly announced National Education Policy 2020 and become the second state in the country to carry out the approach after Karnataka.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Governor Mangubhai C Patel and Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav officially launch the NEP 2020 on 26th August, 2021. Agriculture science as a subject will be introduced in Vikram University and Rani Durgavati University to open up new roads for students. The CM of MP also said the the NEP-2020 will be carried out in every areas of the state, which incorporates 16 government colleges and 40 private colleges, within the time frame of four years.
Complimenting the state for carrying out the NEP 2020, Union Education Minister said that NEP will be the way to acknowledging desires and enabling the students and youth of the state.
State of Uttar Pradesh
The National Education Policy-2020 will be implemented in phases by 2022 in the state of Uttar Pradesh. On the completion of 100 years of Lucknow University, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath said that the NEP is the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It incorporates both the theoretical and practicle part of education that is fundamental for students. Assuming that the Lucknow University pushes forward with the new National Education Policy, it will set another worldview.
State of Telangana
The Telangana State government is the next in the line to take the decision regarding implementation of NEP 2020 in the State.
State of Maharashtra
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray directs an expert’s committee for implementation of new education policy. He has given headings to name an advisory group comprising of education specialists and professionals to methodically move towards the execution of the National Education Policy in the state.
THE MAHARASHTRA Cabinet on 27th January, 2022 chose to set up a clerical council under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on the large number of proposals made by the team headed by researcher Dr Raghunath Mashelkar for the execution of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the state.Set up by the state government in November 2020, the team presented its report in June 2021 which was postponed in the Cabinet.
The team has made nine significant proposals that to incorporate expanding the three-year degree courses to four-year courses, giving the college status to educational institutes that have finished 50 years, setting up a research council for higher education and drawing out the monetary state of the colleges.
It has prescribed an arrangement for admission to engineering degree for the students who learned at polytechnic after tenth. The legal provision is also recommended to be carried out for the working of the foreign universities in the state.
Other States
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy issued an advisory to officials of the Education Department to implement the National Education Policy 2020.
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra said that NEP 2020 will be implemented in phases.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta BiswaSarma said that NEP 2020 will be implemented from 1 April 2022.
The education department of Himachal Pradesh have issued an order to take action regarding NEP 2020. They have issued the order on 26th Feb, 2020. The order stated to take action on an urgent basis and required to take action within 10 days, followed by submission of an action report within 10 days.
Haryana CM ML Khattar has declared to implement the policy till 2025 on 31st July, 2020.
Analysis of New Education Policy through Survey
A survey is conducted among the individuals related to the field of study to analyze NEP 2020. 64 participants have taken part in the survey. The survey is done through Google Forms. Out of 64 participants, 21 male and 43 females have taken part.
Are you aware about New Education Policy?
93.7% participants know that the New Education Policy is released. 6.3% participants don’t know about the NEP 2020. 1 male and 3 female are not aware about the NEP 2020. Here the ratio of female is more than males who don’t know about the release of ne 2020.
Do you know about what changes are bringing out in NEP 2020?
89.1% individuals know that what changes have been bringing up in it. While 10.9% doesn’t know about the changes. The ratio of male was more than the female who don’t know about the changes made in NEP 2020.
Is it easy to implement the policy?
As per 23.4% of participants, it is easy to implement. Remaining 76.6 % of participants stated that it is a difficult task. While saying about the difficulty, they have the following difficulties as following
- Because India is a big country
- Because it’s difficult to make changes and apply new policy.
- Because of lack of funds and infrastructure
How many changes can be easily applied easily?
According to survey, 31.3% individuals have said it is easy to implement up to 50% changes. The government is capable to apply the NEP 2020 up to 50%. On the other side 28.1% individual thinks that 51% to 70% changes can be easily applied. 10.9% people think that government and institutions can easily apply 100% changes. So, we can see as per around one third of the participants take it easy to apply 50% changes.
What do you think about changes in NEP 2020?
60.9% individuals think that it was the necessity of time to make these changes in education policy. Only 6.3% individuals thinks earlier was better. It shows that as per 10.9% individuals, there was no need to bring these changes in New Education Policy. But if we compare, then we found the ratio is more who are in favour of changes made in NEP 2020. Moreover, according to 10.9% thinks that this policy should bring earlier. It’s the positive aspect towards the adaptability of changes made in New Education Policy.
Findings
The findings say that implementation is the biggest factor. The people think positive aspect of the policy that it is good to make the changes in NEP 2020. While asking questions from the participants, participants said that the changes are reformative. So, it will be easy to implement. Everyone will have to do his part properly to implement the policy. The biggest factor which affects the implementation is arrangement of funds and infrastructure. To make the proper infrastructure in rural areas is the biggest hurdle in front of the government. Students participate in questionnaire are happy to have practical and professional training with research work including at basic and graduation level. They think that earlier language was a barrier. But now anyone can study in any language especially in mother tongue up to class 5. To bring NEP 2020 is a drastic and revolutionary change. Some of the individuals think that current education system is worst. It is only based on theory. Practical and professional training is the necessity in this modern era. In fact, it should bring earlier. It’s better to be late than never.
Suggestions
NEP 2020 emphasizes developing critical thinking in students. The curriculum should be reframed. The faculty should be trained as per the new curriculum. The textbooks should also be edited.
The aim of NEP 2020 is to bring back 2 crore children in the school. To complete this task, the government needs to set up around 10 schools daily.
The internet connectivity in rural areas is poor and nearly absent. Developing digital tools is not enough. The government should work to develop basic infrastructure.
Conclusion
Education will be engaged with the dematerialization and digitalization of economies, which requires a totally new ability to keep up. This is a significantly more crucial perquisite now, with the pattern towards digitalization and troublesome mechanization being arisen by the pandemic. NEP 2020 presents changes and chances. It has also given the choices. The main focus of education policy is to create experts with Indian values. Education is only meant for having grades, certificates and employment. NEP 2020 looks an extremely moderate policy, with a solid handle on the current financial scene and the possibility of future vulnerability. Furthermore, the NEP 2020 prepares ahead for some youthful hopeful students to be outfitted with the right range of abilities. The new training strategy has a commendable vision; however, its solidarity will rely upon implementation and whether it can actually incorporate with the other projects of the government like Digital India, Skill India and the New Industrial Policy. We will have to wait and watch to get results. Powerful and time-bound execution will make it genuinely way breaking.
Acknowledgement
I thanks to everyone who has taken part in the survey and make easy this research to do for me. I am very thankful for their co-operation. They spare their valuable time to fill up the Google form. They have shared their true thoughts with me. It was really helpful for me to accomplish the research. I thank them from my heart.
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Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2019
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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/maharashtra-uddhav-thackeray-nep-7744924