National Education Policy: A Magna Carta for 21st Century Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARSHIT MISHRA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
Magna Carta

Reorienting Agricultural Education System in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
UMESH SRIVASTAVA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
The Government

In order to revitalize Indian education system, the Government of India has recently approved National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) and proposed sweeping changes including opening up of Indian higher education to foreign universities, dismantling of the UGC and the AICTE, introduction of a 4-year multidisciplinary undergraduate program with multiple exit options, and discontinuation of the M Phil program. It aims at making ‘India a global knowledge superpower’. In the light of National Education Policy-2020, agricultural education system needs to be redefined in India as it increases knowledge or information and farmer’s capacity to learn. As the level of agricultural education increases, farmers will become more and more self-reliant and will depend more on their self-studies dealing with farming. It is suggested that reorientation of agricultural higher education in context of globalization, food security, diversification, sustainability of ecosystems, and agribusiness is necessary. The curriculum of agricultural higher education needs to be made more broad based and manpower has to be trained scientifically in topics such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, agro-meteorology, environmental science, agro-ecology, computer application, information technology, conservation of natural and human resources, specialized job-oriented courses, and trade and export in agribusiness. Finally, adequate emphasis should be placed on practical skills and entrepreneurial capabilities among the students to achieve excellence. To properly address the challenges faced by today’s Indian agriculture, competent human resource in sufficiently large numbers would be required in the near future. There is a vast scope for young graduates to undertake agriculture as their profession which is directly or indirectly contributing to the economic and social development of the country.

scholarly journals National Education Policy 2020 - Mentoring of Faculty Members towards Excellence in Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Badrilal Gupta ◽  
Pratibha Bundela Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy

A mentoring approach towards excellence is proposed in this paper. This approach should be followed to develop educational leaders and faculty members to prepare HEIs to build capacity and capability to implement the provisions of the national education policy (NEP) 2020. The approach includes designing the mentoring programme at the institute level, selection and orientation of mentors, selection and orientation of mentees, mentoring process, mentees and mentors’ outcomes, and ultimate outcomes of the mentoring programme-academic, research, and excellence. The authors have noted recommendations to make the mentoring programme successful.

scholarly journals The National Education Policy of India - A Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VIII) ◽  
pp. 681-686
Author(s):  
Dr. R. G. Chidananda
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Education ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Educated Person ◽  
Personal Interests

Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It is the most important element in the evolution of the nation. Without education, one will not explore new ideas. It means one will not able to develop the world because without ideas there is no creativity and without creativity, there is no development of the nation. An educated person is aware of his personal as well as social responsibilities. Proper education teaches a person to think beyond his personal interests and also provides him the ability to give something back to the society. The Ministry of Human Resource Development formed a Committee chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan for preparing the National Education Policy. The Committee was constituted in June 2017. The Committee submitted its report on May 31, 2019. The aim of the policy is to prepare the children of India with 21st century skills. The policy is founded on the three pillars of Research, Innovation, and Quality, with the objective of developing India into a knowledge super power.

scholarly journals Implementation Strategies of Higher Education Part of National Education Policy 2020 of India towards Achieving its Objectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-326
Author(s):  
P. S. Aithal ◽  
Shubhrajyotsna Aithal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
Optimal Learning Environment ◽  
Generic Strategies ◽  
New Education

Well defined and futuristic education policy is essential for a country at school and college levels due to the reason that education leads to economic and social progress. India with the leadership of its current prime minister and an expert team with members of varied backgrounds has developed and planned to implement a new education policy during the next decade of the 21st century called Indian National Education Policy (NEP-2020). The aim, objectives, and details are well known to practitioners and the public. NEP-2020 is an innovative and futuristic proposal with both positive and negative aspects, framed with the objective to provide a quality school education and higher education to everyone with an expectation of holistic & research-oriented progress. This paper initially depicts an overview of NEP-2020, distinguish the strengths & weakness of the policy at higher education & research part, evaluation of the implementation suggestions given in the policy, identifying and analyzing possible generic strategies for implementation of NEP-2020 to fulfill its objectives based on focus group discussions. The paper also includes many predictive proposals on issues like developing quality universities & colleges, institutional restructuring & consolidation, more holistic & multidisciplinary education, optimal learning environment & student support, transforming the regulatory system of higher education, technology usage & integration, and online & digital education. Finally, some recommendations are made to implement the NEP2020 effectively irrespective of various constraints. This article can be considered as a reference to the policy implementation teams of Govt of India.

scholarly journals New Education Policy 2020 of India: A Theoretical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-306
Author(s):  
Dr. Hemlata Verma ◽  
Adarsh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education

Education has a key and decisive role in this scenario of contingencies. The National Education Policy 2020 has therefore been transformed into the framework of this reform, which could help to build a new education system in the country, in addition to strengthening those economic and social indicators. That still needs to be improved. NEP 2020 provides for quality higher education through multidisciplinary universities and autonomous colleges. We have critically examined the policy in this paper and proposed changes to ensure a seamless continuum with its predecessor in addition to its predecessor, boosting its importance. The current paper describes the analysis of the requirements for NEP 2020 provisions and management practices at the university level. Recommendations are made for the design and implementation of NEPs at national and HEIs (Higher Education levels).

Equitable Access to Higher Education: An Analysis of India’s National Education Policy (2020) in a Post-Pandemic World

2021 ◽  
pp. 232200582110424
Author(s):  
Paramita DasGupta ◽  
Saurya Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Blind Spots

Of the various less-than-comfortable narrative strands of the status quo that the COVID-19 pandemic has succeeded in showing up in stark relief—our rather troubling (if somewhat half-hearted) complacence about the systemic blind-spots that continue to colour the prevailing culture of a clearly inequitable higher education policy-framework—easily features among the most worrying, and thus, among those precise pulse-points that carry tremendous potential to help build the post-pandemic reset better, stronger and palpably fairer.1 In this piece, the authors endeavour to elaborate upon this and supplement the same with a brief analysis of India’s year-old National Education Policy, 20202—and how this nation (India) of more than 1.3 billion,3 supposedly poised on the cusp of a massive self-reinvention—is attempting to embark upon this journey.

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