NEP Draft

Impact of NEP

Below given are the recommendations that I have noted with regard to the NEP Draft 2019 on College education.

First, what is recommended is a doubling of public funding to 6% of the GDP and increasing overall public expenditure on education to 20% from the current 10%. This is desirable but does not appear to be feasible in the near future given that most of the additional funding has to come from the States. Though innovative financing schemes have been proposed, involving the private sector, how those schemes will shape up remains to be seen.

 

Teachers can't spend more of their time on non teaching activities midday meal preparation, electioneering, or various administrative tasks this affects the quality of the teacher teaching the subject and would not be happy in doing it and its not realistic.

 

Teachers can also be shared among the schools in the complex. Areas/subjects, which by the nature of the curriculum, do not require a teacher for every school, may have teachers appointed to the overall school complex thus making it possible for resourcing to happen optimally. I think one way can be good but I feel a separate teacher should be there for individual schools so that the output of students will be better.

 

Similar is the problem with the recommendation of including breakfast in the mid-day meal scheme. Yes, breakfast is needed but so is the improvement in the quality of the already existing mid-day meals- implying that strong monitoring mechanisms are needed to curb adulteration in the meals prepared. So is how to remove the caste barriers from the mid-day meal scheme for equal access with dignity.

 

Multidisciplinary learning, higher education must aim to prepare its students not just for their first jobs - but also for their second, third, and all future jobs over their lifetimes. I feel that as a student his capacity to learn or study is only less I mean here NEP tells that a student should study multidisciplinary since its impossible and he cannot be an expert in all the field so choosing one discipline is best.

 

Lack of research activities, I feel colleges should develop a research centre where in everyone can focus on research, Lecturers are not encouraged to do research activities I feel that they might start research only when they join PhD or after completing.

 

One of the most prominent issue that the policy has addressed but not covered properly is the quality of education taught in schools. With elaborate plans of inculcating new teachers and placing them through Continuous Development Program (CDP), the older teachers and their capacity building (the majority of implementors of the new courses) are not given adequate attention.

The use of technology in the teaching process, but nothing has been clearly said about how digitalization of classrooms can take place. Subsequently, there is no discussion on how to make sports and other physical activities (such as dance, karate and yoga) a significant part of the academics. Such activities are essential for the inculcation of a lot of life skills: physical fitness, teamwork, increasing concentration, strategy building, healthy competitive skills, confidence, perseverance, hard work and strengths (both physical and mental).

Sexual abuse was another issue of  ponderance that was ignored. According to Delhi Police, around 60% of child abuses cases reported in Delhi are incidents from schools. The real number would be much higher: children going through such horrifying crimes but not understanding what has happened and whom to talk no. Neither mechanisms of redressal/complaint are created for schools, nor children are taught what good touch or bad touch is. Although this policy has given space for sex education in 9th to 12th-grade time, it is still inadequate to deal with the issue of child abuse.

23 million girls drop out every year when they attain puberty (10-13 years), the main reason being they cannot travel with menstruation and another fact that the education is not considered necessary for them as much as learning domestic work and marriage is.

 The idea of setting up the Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog under the Prime Minister and having it serviced by the MHRD is crucial in order to integrate the approaches and programmes of multiple departments. However, it is fraught with many administrative problems and possible turf battles. Bringing medical or agricultural or legal education under one umbrella is likely to be met with stiff opposition.

The idea of regulation being brought under the National Higher Education Regulatory Authority, standard setting under the General Education Council and funding under the Higher Education Grants Council may require a revisit so that there is synchronization with the current Bill for the Higher Education Commission of India. Besides, the draft policy is silent on the Institutions of Eminence and agencies like the Higher Education Funding Agency.

After the policy comes into effect, students will have to cover four years of education instead of three years for degrees. With the completion of first year the students will get a certificate, and upon completion of second year, students will be awarded a diploma, then one year thereafter, a degree will be awarded. But in the final and fourth year, students will be promoted to contribute their time mainly for research upon completion of which they will be awarded an honours," I feel that students after completing 1^st year when they diploma certificate they might leave the studies and more over sometimes their parents support them or they might would have joined only for the diploma certificate, one way its better the other way it has negative impact who have are not interested o study more.

This is N.Arun kumar 1910083. i have already mailed you sir but it has bounced back.