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New Education Policy focuses on how to think: PM Narendra Modi

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New Education Policy focuses on how to think: PM Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the new National Education Policy focuses on ‘how to think’, while the education system till now in the country emphasised on ‘what to think’. He also said that there were no major changes in the country’s education system over the years. As a result, instead of … Read more

View: There’s a flip side to Modi government’s National Education Policy 2020

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View: There’s a flip side to Modi government’s National Education Policy 2020

The New Education Policy (NEP) has some good suggestions, but is marred by serious defects: homogenisation, centralisation outside political influence, enmity towards private enterprise in education, self-propagation of governing body ideology across generations of a higher education institution and refusal to recognise caste as a disabling factor that calls for explicit remedial measures. Together, these … Read more