GUWAHATI: Assam Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi said that the new Education Policy 2019 has the potential of building a foundational pillar of access, equity, quality, affordability and accountability to bring about a paradigm shift in the delivery of quality education in the country.
Sharing his views while inaugurating a one-day seminar on ‘Draft New Education Policy 2019’ organised by Intellectual Forum of North East at IIT-Guwahati to shed light on the need of education policy in the changing scenario of New India, Governor Prof. Mukhi said that the New Education Policy 2019 can bring in parity by ensuring access to children aged 3 - 8 years to a flexible, multifaceted, multilevel, play-based and activity-based education. He also said that the New Education Policy can create an India-centered education system that contributes directly to transforming the nation sustainably into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society by providing high-quality education to all.
Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi also said that under the New Education Policy-2019 efforts will be made for regulation which is responsive, minimalistic, light but tight-to ensure public-spiritedness, equity, excellence, financial stability and probity, along with good governance in contrast to the stereotyped situation created at present.
It may be noted that the seminar has discussed the draft New Education Policy 2019 from different perspectives and evaluated it exhaustively in the context of Assam.
Director IIT Guwahati Prof. TG Sitharam, senior officers of the Department of Higher Education, Govt of Assam, members of IIT Guwahati community and other resource persons from across the country were present in the seminar, a press release stated.
Education policy consists of the principles and government policies in the educational sphere as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.
Or simply we can said that An Education Policy is a past or up to date statement or series of statements which explain, recommend or exclude a course of action or actions to be taken to run the system of education. These statements are usually written, but they could be oral.
Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many institutions. Examples include early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, two and four year colleges or universities, graduate and professional education, adult education and job training. Therefore, education policy can directly affect the education people engage in at all ages.
Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, specifically from the field of schools, include school size, class size, school choice, school privatization, tracking, teacher selection, education and certification, teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements, school infrastructure investment, and the values that schools are expected to uphold and model.
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