National Education Policy 2020-Challenges and Implementation in Higher Education
Abstract
Education helps in acquiring knowledge, skill, values, moral, beliefs, personal development. In order to overcome the inefficiency of previous education policies of the country and aligned with the aspirational goal of 21st century education including sustainable development goals Government of India has adopted a new education policy 2020 It is an attempt to reform, revamp and restructure the education system and deal with the implementation and administration related problems. In this regard several changes have been introduced at different levels of education for instance; early childhood care and education ,10+2 format has been replaced by 5+3+3+4 format, concept of multidisciplinary, credit transfers, continuous and comprehensive i.e. 360 degree assessment. NEP 2020 focuses on quality, flexibility, critical and analytical thinking, creativity and equality It is an attempt to meet the rapid growing and changing world education enhances the potential and efficiency of people and prepare them for challenges and future prospects. So, it will help India in turning its huge, young and energetic population in its resource. Needless to say that new NEP is highly progressive but ambitious as to achieve the targeted level of investment, and its implementation within the timeframe dealing with existing condition of education system, which is suffering from financial, administrative and implementation chaos, is quite challenging.
