Effects of the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on both Students and Teachers

The New Education Policy initiated by the present central government is considered to be an epoch-making breakthrough.?

Education researchers have been studying the draft referendum of the NEP many times, and have yet to reach a fully grown unison in the form of a common consensus regarding this.

Nevertheless, the Modi government has made extensive hype about this new policy, which, according to them, will bring about a sea change in the gamut of institutional learning.?

The NEP is meant to revise the fundamental educational format evident at the school levels in particular.

The emphasis is on developing ingenuity within the student's fraternity.?

Hence it calls for a paradigm shift in the way of interpreting school-level education diluting the existing format.

Good or bad, it ought to be said that this revamping of the school-level education system meant to achieve a pan-India standard among existing school boards, be it state or central, will have far-reaching effects in the days to come.

The NEP ought to be analyzed from both student-centric and teacher-centric points of view. It is important to analyze its effects on these two essential stakeholders.

Effects of NEP on the teachers...

The NEP can only become functional as and when the teaching community is through the nitrites of this draft resolution. It is needless to say that in spite of a generalistic euphoria regarding the NEP the teachers are yet to augment the system at large which is still a matter of speculation rather than a workable structure.?

The ideas and clauses included with respect to school education are quite ambitious keeping in mind the ground realities including infrastructural loopholes, lack of proper training available for the teaching faculty, and the difficulty in drafting a pan India unified curriculum keeping the varied School Boards in mind.

The positive parts are also evident through certain online teacher training sessions initiated as yet. However, the teacher is a singular entity in the way of imparting education in the classroom situation and ought to be more comfortable with respect to the structural changes promised here through this NEP. The dilution of the conventional streams of study is going to be a much-observed phenomenon keeping in mind the non-porous rigid structure that was evident for a long time. A credit-based study meant to Hon and develop the ward's conspicuous talent is a promising idea but the means to achieve such an objective ought to be more comprehensible.?

All in all the teaching faculty is still in a state of indecisiveness in the way of coming to a full-grown conclusion pertaining to the NEP.

Effects of the NEP on the students…

The students being the direct stakeholders are meant to be affected by the changes suggested through the NEP.

For the students, it means greater autonomy in way of subject choice, in having a greater level of liberty to identify their sheer talents within. It also means a departure from rot learning and an enjoyable journey in assimilating ingenuity and rationality in whatever they study. The inclusion of "coding" as a component of school-level education is a stepwell taken, as it could open new vistas of renewed possibilities.?

At the same time, it is needless to mention that the young minds ought to be supplemented by quality know-how coming from the facilitators who are the teachers.

Even for the students, the NEP might seem like a tricky pasture to graze on without the supervision of an able shepherd..who ought to be a teacher with converging abilities in way of shaping the young minds through his/her intellect and understanding.?

The NEP can only have its sought after-effects once the bridge is established across its rugged shores of incomprehensibility in the minds of a child guiding its vision.

And this engineering ought to be accomplished by teachers in general. Hence the effectiveness of the NEP on the students is directly tantamount to the enriched faculty made available for this noble cause.

By,

Jolly Ghosh

Department of English

Senior School

St.Augustine’s Day school, Kolkata