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16249 Submission Date :
2022-08-01 Acceptance Date :
2022-08-18 Publication Date :
2022-08-25
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| Abstract |
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” -Nelson Mandela
To keep pace with the changing scenario in education at the international level and to establish India as a global knowledge superpower, a need for major changes in our education policy was being felt seriously. The main objective of the new education policy is to establish such multidisciplinary institutions that provide high quality education and research. There should be flexibility in education so that the students can choose the subjects of their own choice from any faculty. Add vocational and co-curricular courses, so that the education will provide not only theoretical knowledge but practical knowledge also, which will help in making them self-reliant. Keeping this objective in mind, a new education policy was formed in which minor subjects of other faculties should also be taught along with major subjects and co-curricular and vocational subjects should also be taught together to provide a multidisciplinary approach. The present study examined the youth perspective about nep-2020 among the first year students of the Government Post Graduate College Noida. who has been admitted to college according to a new education policy A questionnaire was distributed among the students to understand their feedback and knowledge about various new policies and procedures introduced by the new education policy. The study explores different policies and aspects from the view of the young students.
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| Keywords | New Education Policy, Minor Subject, Co-curricular Subject, Skill Development, Vocational Course. | ||||||
| Introduction |
Indian Education System is the one of the finest and oldest education systems in the world. It has produced so many talented minds that are making India proud all over the world such as Dhaniya, patanjali, Nagarjuna etc. The Indian education system faces so many problems and it needs to be resorted to reach its fullest potential. The First NEP was pronounced by the Government of India by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968, the second by the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986. India's education policy has been amended three times till now. In June 2017, the draft on a new education policy was submitted by a panel constituted by the Indian space research organization (ISRO) Chief Shri Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan. The same draft (New Education Policy 2019) was later released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the new education policy, many important changes have taken place from school education to higher education, which aims to establish India as a superpower in the field of education at the global level.
Many important changes have been made through the New Education Policy 2020, such as emphasizing on vocational education to make students self-reliant, making interdisciplinary subjects necessary and converting higher educational institutions into multidisciplinary institutions, make practical knowledge as an integral part of education. The present paper reviews the New Education Policy 2020 from the youth perspective.
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| Objective of study | The present research survey attempts to gather information about NEP-2020 from the viewpoint of the youth. The study is limited to the first year students of the Government postgraduate College Noida. The main objectives of the study are:
1. Review the different provisions in national education policy 2020.
2. To analyse the awareness of different provisions of NEP-2020 among the students.
3. To analyse the view of young generation towards the NEP-2020 |
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| Review of Literature | The brief description of literature studied is given below- Jha, P. and Parvati, P. (2020) discussed on limitations of the National Education Policy, approved by the union cabinet on 29 July 2020. NEP-2020. After the 34 years of gap since the first education policy. This is the third educational policy of the country. The article focuses on some of the relevant concerns about the question of provisioning for good quality universal education, equitable access to education and increasing push toward privatisation. Deb, P. (2020) stated the Indian beliefs and cultural values in teaching which is the area of main focus of National Education Policy- 2020. Suryavanshi, S. (2020) has compared the teacher education in Indian universities with Chinese university as a case study and concluded that autonomy is essential to faculty members. Aithal, P. S. and Aithal, S. (2020) published a paper on “Analysis of the Indian National Education Policy 2020 toward Achieving its Objectives” and highlighted various policies announced in the higher education system and compared them with the currently adopted system. Discussion on various innovations and predicted implications of NEP 2020 on the Indian higher education system along with its merits. Some suggestions are also proposed for effective implementation towards achieving its objectives. |
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| Methodology | Research Methodology is a systematic way to solve a problem. It is a science of studying how research is to be carried out. Essentially, the procedures by which researchers go about their work of describing, explaining and predicting phenomena are called research methodology. It is also defined as the study of methods by which knowledge is gained. Its aim is to give a work plan for research.
An online survey is a set of structured questions that the respondent completes over the internet, generally by filling out a form. It is a more natural way to reach out to the respondents as it is less time-consuming than the traditional way of gathering information through one-to-one interaction and is less expensive. Some benefits of the survey method are:
Surveys allow you to gather data from a large sample size or research population. This helps to improve the validity and accuracy of your research findings.
The cost of creating and administering a survey is usually lower compared to other research methods.
It is a convenient method of data collection for the researcher and the respondents. |
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| Sampling |
Total
sample of 243 students from government post graduate college was taken to the
study in which 114 (46.9%) students from arts faculty, 82 (33.7%) students from
science faculty and 48 (19.8%) students from the commerce faculty. |
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| Tools Used | Questionnaire is used as a tool of survey method. An online survey was conducted for the fist year students of the government postgraduate college Noida, over Google form. Response of each participant was collected using a link survey and responses were automatically generated and recorded. The questionnaire included 16 questions covering general question, minor subject, skill development course, co- curricular course, choice of the medium (language) of the study and other new implementations to be incorporated and replacing the old education policy. |
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| Result and Discussion |
Analysis- about 87.7% of the students belong to
the age group of 18 to 20 years and 12.3% students belong to the group of 20
and above. The sample for the study has been taken from the first year
students therefore maximum students belong to the age group of 18 to20 years. The above figure depict that 46.9% participants belong to art faculty, 33.7% participants belongs to science faculty and 19.8% participants belongs to commerce faculty. The study revealed that 77.7% participants get
informed about the new education policy-2020 from their own college, 19.4% from
the news and social media and only 2.9% get informed from other sources. The study revealed that 11.1% of the participants
believe that minor subjects are beneficial for a multi disciplinary approach,
28.2% believe that subjects of personal interest is the benefit of minor
subjects, 37.2% believe that minor subjects improve your future Outlook and
23.5% believe that minor subjects broaden year skills. One finding regarding
the choice of a subject indicates that students are interested in other
subjects also rather than subjects from their faculty. Above figure depicts that 13% participant believe that co-curricular subjects are important to improve your learning experience, 9.1% participants believe that co-curricular subjects are important to develop and explore your inner talent and interest, some of the participants believe that co- curricular subjects are important to improve your social and organisation skills, few participants believe that co curricular subjects are important to enhance overall personality. Where 66.2% participants believe that co- curricular subjects are important due to all the above factors. The figure shows that 84.8% participants know about skill development/vocational courses and 15.2% participants don't know about skill development/vocational courses. The above diagram shows that 20.9% participants
believe that skill development/vocational courses are related to professional
training, 10.3% participants believe that skill development/vocational courses
are related to work space training whereas 68.8% participants believe that
skill development and vocational courses are related to professional training
as well as work space training both. Study revealed that 60.3% participants believe that skill development courses are beneficial for career opportunity, 24.1% believe that skill development courses are beneficial for real world experience, approx. 10% participants believe that is skill development courses are beneficial for learn business ethics approx. 10% participants believe that skill development courses are beneficial for strengthen resume and approx. 5.6% participants believe that skill development courses are beneficial for other reasons. About diagram shows that 25.4% participants believe that multiple entry and exit is the most important facility provided by the nep 2020, 9.9% participants believe that credit system and credit Bank is the most important facility provided by the nep 2020 and 25.4% participants believe that choice of subject is the most important facility provided by the nep 2020. Study revealed that 59.7% participants like to prefer Hindi as a medium of study in higher education and 38.2% participants like to prefer English as a medium of study in higher education whereas very few participants like to prefer study in other languages. Above diagram depicts that 95% students agree that the new education policy 2020 is a beginning towards (आत्मनिर्भर भारत) self reliant India whereas only 5.8% students disagree |
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| Conclusion |
Education is the most important thing in human life. Aim of New Education Policy 2020 is enable an individual to study one or more specialised areas of interest at a deep level, and also developed character and ethical values. This study shows that there is lots of hope and enthusiasm among the students about provision such as multidisciplinary subject approach, choice of language, flexibility of course etc. Students are very optimistic about the co-curricular subjects and vocational courses Although some of the students are not properly aware of all the provisions implemented in the new education policy. Most of the participants believe that this education policy will take us towards self-reliant India.
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| Suggestions for the future Study | Following topics can we use for the further study- Digitisation in education: some aspects in NEP-2020 NEP-2020: vision of making young entrepreneurs |
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