National Education Policy

National Education Policy

In India higher education has improved significantly in the past few decades, but as we see

there is still out of reach to the younger generation, giving equality with quality of education and

still it remains a challenge. There are lot of challenges in higher education like lack of faculty

motivation and scope for innovation, lack of institutional autonomy, lack of research in

universities, lack of multidisciplinary universities and colleges.

Higher education is a critical contributor to sustainable livelihoods and economic

development of the nation. Higher education also plays a large and equally important role in

improving human well being, and developing India as envisioned in the Constitution - a

democratic, just, socially conscious, self aware, cultured, and humane nation, with liberty,

equality, fraternal spirit, and justice for all. Higher education aims to serve as a hub for

developing ideas and innovations that enlighten individuals and help propel the country forward

socially, culturally, artistically, scientifically, technologically, and economically.

National education policy strives to move universities to large multidisciplinary universities

and giving financial autonomy to the universities so that the resources can be allocated with no

interference for research and services needed for it. And collaboration with international

universities on research can be done with full autonomy and scholars can have wider knowledge

in their area. And it will help in interdisciplinary study. For example: Social Entrepreneur

includes Masters in Social Work and Entrepreneur in management.

If higher education is moved entirely into large multidisciplinary HEIs, it would address many

of the problems that higher education faces today:

• It would give students vibrant communities of scholars and peers in which to learn;

• It would help break down harmful silos between disciplines;

• It would enable students to become well-rounded and develop optimally both sides of their

brains (artistic/creative and analytic), and would help bring flexibility and individuality into

their learning programmes;

• It would help develop active research communities across disciplines - particularly cross-

disciplinary research, which will be key for the innovations of the 21st century;

• It would greatly improve (by an order of magnitude) the efficiency of use of resources and of

resource sharing, both material and human, across higher education.

National research foundation will help in funding for the outstanding research proposals across

all disciplines. For the management discipline most of the researches are market oriented and a

lot of funds are needed for it and NRF will help.

Scope of work of the Foundation will include

• Funding research in all disciplines through a competitive, peer-review based process Building

research capacity at academic institutions across the country creating beneficial linkages

between researchers, government and industry. Recognizing outstanding research through

special prizes and seminars

• National Research Foundation will significantly expand research and innovation in the

country Autonomous body, set up through an Act of Parliament Annual grant of Rs. 20,000

crores - increased progressively over the next decade

• The Foundation will have four major divisions to start with - Sciences, Technology, Social

Sciences, Arts and Humanities

National Scholarship Fund is established for the students who require financial support to

attend a public HEI's so that no one shall be deprived of higher education on financial inability.

The policy has come up with the three types of institutions and one of it which concentrates on

research and to equip the universities with all the amenities needed and to give high quality of

education and stressing more on professional education. Type 2 is which concentrated on

teaching across disciplines and programmes which helps to develop the teaching capabilities

and there will be a type 1 three institution for every disadvantaged geographies district within

3yrs so that research can contribute to the disadvantaged geographies for their development.

Also envisages with more liberal education as a foundation for holistic development of all

students. The purpose of this liberal arts education is to develop both artistic side and the

analytical side of brain and aimed at developing good and complete human beings. When a

person starts to use both sides of the brain and being human, he starts to excel in his own

discipline that can be useful for the development of the human beings. The focus of the study is

for the practical engagement of students with the society and line learning is enabled. All the

graduate programmes are given the research exposure at the base level itself.

To my understanding this policy helps management discipline by giving autonomy to the

institutions, research oriented learning, developing the research scholars for future teaching

areas, funding for the research and scholarship for the undergraduates and graduates equipping

the universities needed for the world class education and out reaching the disadvantages

geographies by type 1 institutions. By giving all these amenities management discipline can give

a good result in the research area as well as in professional courses.

Lastly I want to end this by citing a quote by Swami Vivekananda

If the poor boy or girl cannot come to education, education must go to him or her…

This is what draft National Education Policy's basic agenda, hope it becomes true.

References

Draft National Education Policy.