The new National Education Policy (NEP) is a step forward in transforming school education in the country, with a focus on 21st century skills such as critical thinking and problem solving that help increase employment opportunities. Is.
However, the policy was drafted before the pandemic, and the context in which it is being implemented has changed. How should we make the implementation of NEP relevant in the post-Covid world? Should we prioritize recovery (lost learning) over the implementation of deep educational reform at this time? What role can technology play in education in achieving policy objectives?
These are just some of the questions that a panel will open Thursday during the IE Think, an Express Platform, where experts tackle some of the most pressing issues of our time. The session’s panelists are Madhav Chavan, co-founder and chairman of Pratham, which releases the Annual Status Report of Education (ASER); Dhir Jhingaran, former bureaucrat and founding director of the Language and Learning Foundation, a social enterprise focused on improving equitable student learning; Meralia Shaukat, Founder-CEO of Madhi Foundation, a non-profit working on basic literacy, and Asiya Kazmi, who leads global education policy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The session is being moderated by National Education Editor Ritika Chopra. Indian Express.
Panelists will also discuss how school education must adapt to the current context to achieve the vision of the NEP and in these changed circumstances when school education resources have been stretched to the limit.
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