NEW EDUCATION POLICY 2020: A STUDY OF KEY CHANGES WITH EXISTING NATIONAL POLICY OF EDUCATION (1986)
*Tarushi Achraya, **Anamika Goyal, *** Ravindra Kumar & ****Meenakshi Kaushik
*Assistant Professor, Department of Law, TIIPS, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
**Assistant Professor, B.Tech, Department of CSE, TIIPS, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
***Director, Trinty Institute of Innovations in Professional Studies, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
****Professor & Dean, Department of Management, TIIPS, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract
The New Education Policy announced by Dr. K. Kasturirangan as NEP 2020, which was approved by the Government of India on 29 July 2020, The Objective of this policy is to improve the quality of education, credibility of education, and addressing the gap in implementation. Education policy is necessary for a country at school and colleges because education leads to economic and social development of any country. The changes that NEP 2020 has recommended were HRD ministry now renamed as ministry of education, GDP investment in Education to increase from 1.6% TO 6% and focusing on gross enrolment ratio it will be increased to 50% by 2035. The education policy has impacted schools and colleges education equally, this article 21 A mainly focuses on free and compulsory education for child age group 6 to 14 years and it’s also impact on Higher Education. This paper highlights the key changes of NEP 2020 and analyses the effect of the existing education system.
Keywords
new education policy, national policy on education, higher education.