CHALLENGES AHEAD OF IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY-2020 IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract:

The new National Educational Policy 2020 introduced on 29 July 2020. The Government of India took a giant leap forward by announcing its new education policy, the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), almost three decades after the last major revision was made to the policy in 1986. The policy has come at the right time and the objective is very noble. But there lies a world of difference between laying down a policy on paper and implementing in actual. The success of NEP 2020 and the pace of its implementation depends to a large extent on how successfully the government, universities and all other educational institutions can tide over the practical challenges facing it. This paper focuses on some major challenges ahead of implementing national education policy-2020 in higher education.