Tag: National Education Policy
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Towards a more Immersive Learning Experience: How Metaverse can Improve the Education Sector in India
The pandemic has led to a new phase in the education system through remote learning; now, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom Classes have become the new reality for students across the globe. However, there is also an inherent problem in the remote learning system currently being used by most institutions to impart education. Many…
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Gender Studies in School Education: Redefining the Policy Approach
The sorting of bodies into binary categories has been used for labor division and for identifying key differences in personality traits over the past centuries most of which has led to adverse consequences for gender identities. Gender studies, therefore, as an academic discipline aims to demystify these categories and introduces fluidity as an important aspect…
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Access to School Education for Girls in India: Impact & Interventions for Change
One of the major challenges of the education system in India is to address gender disparities in terms of enrolment and drop-out rates of the girl child. The dismal female literacy rate in 1981 was at 28.47% and increased to 65.46% in 2011 as opposed to the male literacy rate of 82.14% in 2011. The…
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The Policy Dialogue: Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies. Date: 21st August 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 has been hailed for its reformative approach to school and college education in…
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Reshaping the Educational Landscape: Draft National Education Policy
By Parvathy Ramesh, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. India-centred, sustainable, equitable, vibrant, and high-quality – these are the keywords used to describe the vision of the draft National Education Policy (NEP) in a report submitted on May 31, 2019. Chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan, the Committee for Draft National Education Policy proposes several reformations in…