National Education Policy 2020 – Reforms in Indian School Education System
Keywords:
New Education Policy (NEP), India, Development, Students, LanguageAbstract
The year 2020 has been an exceptional year for countries across the globe. In India, apart from Covid19, one of the important changes that took place was the development of the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) is being advertised as the first education policy of the 21st century, and it has the objective of revising and redesigning the education structure in India, as well as moving towards the development of a new system that is in accordance with the inspirational goals of education in the 21st century. NEP 2020 is based on the premise that the development of cognitive skills should not be the only focus of education. This paper focuses on the reforms that have been done in Indian School Education System. This paper identifies three crucial aspects of the policy – course, language and students for the higher education sector.
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