Team Herald
PANJIM: The Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) has invited inputs from stakeholders for the implementation of the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in Goa.
The DHS has said that the inputs on NEP are collected from different stakeholders for preparing the road map for the State. The inputs have invited from students, teachers, professionals, experts and other stakeholders.
The NEP approved by the Union Cabinet last month replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986.
Educational expert Bhaskar Nayak informed Herald that the State government will have to draft its own State Education Policy in lines with national policy and then go for its implementation.
“We just cannot implement NEP. Stakeholders’ inputs are must. State will have to frame its own roadmap to implement the policy,” he said.
Sources informed that the government may constitute a task force to study the NEP before implementing it in the State education system. The policy has expanded the scope of foundational education, increasing the school-going years from 3 to 18 instead of the prevalent 6 to 14 years.
One of the sweeping reforms is the transition from the decades-old 10+2 format to 5+3+3+4 school structure. The NEP also states that wherever possible, the Medium of instruction till grade 5, and preferably till grade 8 and beyond, will be the home language/mother tongue/local language or regional language.
Lowering the stakes of board exams, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges and common entrance tests for universities, scrapping MPhil programmes and implementing common norms for private and public higher education institutions are among other salient features of the new policy.
