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“RELEVANCE OF NEW EDUCATION POLICY 2020 IN PROLIFERATING AND SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCES”

                                                                                                    

Education policy consists of the principles and government policies within the educational sphere as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. It is implemented through institutions for various purposes. Examples include early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, graduate and professional education, adult education and job training. Thus, education policy directly affects the education of individuals engross in at all ages.

People as human resources are important because they can make the best use of nature to create more resources by applying knowledge, skills and technology. In today’s world everybody is in need of fast technology and human resources and during this process education and health provides a key role in making people a treasured resource. Moreover, the human resource plays a notable role within the economy of a country by contributing to its productivity. The other resource becomes useful due to the input by the human resource. Thus, investment in human capital yields a return and it’s done through education, training, and healthcare.

The NEP aims to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GRE) to 50 per cent by 2035. It includes higher education, including vocational education from 26.3 per cent in 2018 to 50 per cent by 2035. The new Education Policy 2020 will play a key role in proliferating and shaping human resources and eventually an increase in the literacy rate of India. It aims to bring a reform in the higher education sector by providing a scope in all round progress of the children.

The main change that the new education policy can bring will be seen is that the teaching till class 5 has to be done in mother tongue or regional language .Moreover, this policy mainly focusses on the research-based teaching which is kind of contracting to the old teaching methods which are based only on the marks obtained rather than knowledge gained. The examination criteria will change from summative assessment to regular and formative assessment that will help the students to go in deep of each subject and gain knowledge instead of memorization.

Students will have to appear for examinations in grades III, IV, and VIII, which will be conducted by the assigned authority. A new National Assessment Centre, called PARAKH, which is short for Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development, will be established as a standard-setting body.

Now the main of multidisciplinary colleges and universities will be to have an outstanding education department offer BEd, MEd, & PhD degrees. In addition, the minimum degree qualification for teaching will be a four-year integrated BEd degree by 2030. A wide range of institutions starting from research- intensive universities to teaching- intensive universities and autonomous degree-granting colleges will be available that will provide a broader scope of study and research for all the students. Moreover, over a period every college will develop into either an autonomous degree-granting college, or a constituent college of a university. Also, more than 3.5 crore new seats will be added to the higher-education institutions.

 The main limelight of the scheme is that the Government also plans to bring back two crore out-of-school children into the mainstream. There will be open learning for classes III, V and VIII through the National Institute of Open Schooling and State Open Schools’ secondary education programmed equivalent to Grades X and XII. Moreover, multilingualism will be promoted in schools as well as higher-educational institutions.

The policy can help reshape the future of the students and help the emerging job seekers if it is implemented effectively. The policy says, “There will be no hard separation among ‘curricular’, ‘extracurricular’, or ‘co-curricular’, among ‘arts’, ‘humanities’, and ‘sciences’, or between ‘vocational’ or ‘academic’ streams.” In case if the students get discontinued, they can still continue their learning process from where they have left as the NEP will permit students to accumulate and retain their credits. Additionally, the essential skills include vocational exposure and skills; digital literacy, coding, and computational thinking help in the versatile development of a student.

Thus, overall, the NEP 2020 is a really upright policy as it aims at making the education system holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary, aligned to the needs of the 21st century and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and making the students future ready. Thus, the key to success will be the way how this policy is implemented and will help in shaping the human resources.

Reference:

1.               Education policy - Wikipedia
2.           https://www.hrkatha.com/news/union-cabinet-gives-green-signal-to-new-education-policy-2020/
3.    https://www.peoplematters.in/article/executive-education/impact-of-new-education-policy-on-employability-26554