THE NEW NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020

When I was in College, one of my friends wanted to involve himself in an NGO. He loved this work too much. But could not manage both college and NGO work together. So, he dropped college in 2nd year and opted for what he wanted. But later on, he wanted to try something else because it was not really working for him. He regretted his decision of not completing his graduation.

Guess what!!

The new National Education Policy 2020 has brought a major change. Meaning students will now be offered a certificate in the first year of graduation, a diploma in the second year and a degree in the third or fourth year, depending on the course. And they can come back within a fixed period to do more if they so wished. It’s an insurance policy. You can take a drop year and it won’t be the end of the world. You can go work at a start-up. You can do NGO work. You can experiment. You can try your hand at different things and you’ll still have a certificate that’s valuable.

THE NEW NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020: The new National Education Policy (NEP) was approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday and it is the first such policy in the last 34 years. Finally, after 6 years of deliberation, it was unveiled. It aims to transform education for almost 300 million students in the country. Better educations create better returns. It envisions an India centered education system that contributes directly to transforming our nation sustainably into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society, by providing high quality education to all.

In this era, it’s very important to tackle the needs of the employer and this is possible only through a better education system. Education is not only about getting degrees; it’s about developing skills. It’s this sort of flexibility that the Indian education system so desperately needed. After all, if you don’t offer students the right kind of incentives, they’ll keep doing the same things and you’ll keep getting people who are barely employable.

Some of the major highlights of the new NEP 2020 are as follows:

1. There’s no more 10+2–10 years of primary and secondary education followed by 2 years of higher secondary education. Schools in India will now follow the 5+3+3+4 structure.

2. The National Testing Agency (NTA) will be charged with conducting (optional) entrance examinations for admissions into higher educational institutes across the country.

3. Once selected into a college, students will enrol in a 3- or 4-year undergraduate degree, with an option of leaving whenever they want. If you complete one year, you’ll get a certificate. Two years gets you a diploma. If you stick it out for three or four years (depending on the course), you’ll get a degree. And if you pursue a four-year program with research, you’ll be an eligible PhD candidate.

4. An ABC has been introduced, i.e. Academic Bank of Credit, which will store the academic credits that students earn by taking courses from various recognized higher education institutions. Whenever you complete a course, a number of credits will be added to your bank. You can then transfer these credits if you decide to switch colleges. And even if you’re forced to drop out for some reason, these credits will remain intact. Meaning you can come back years later and pick up from where you left off.

5. Universities will be made multidisciplinary. Everything will be taught from arts, science, management, etc. under one roof.

6. Sanskrit will be mainstreamed with a strong offering in schools and three language formula will be adopted in higher education.

7. Coding to be taught from class 6, which will groom the students with more skills.

8. There will be no stream-based education. You can choose to study Physics along with Sanskrit, or Political Science along with Computers, and your school will have to accommodate you.

9. A 4-year instead of 3-year undergraduate program is on the charts with MPhil being scrapped while PhD remains accessible after a master’s degree. The top 100 foreign universities will be setting up campuses in India, which will again boost a global view towards education.

10. The emphasis on primary education in regional languages and the introduction of Sanskrit, following the three-language formula, will turn out to be a great boon to the people of the country especially in the rural areas.

11. There will be a 6% public investment of the GDP in the education sector.

12. HRD Ministry has been renamed as the Ministry of Education, and a common higher education regulator is being set up to work in the place of UGC and AICTE.

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