National Education Policy 2020

CareerSpotters Calls for Paradigm Shift in our Approach to Prepare Students for their Transition from Schools to Colleges to Right Careers!

The new National Education Policy 2020 promulgated by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India, lays particular emphasis in section 4.1 of the policy that the “curricular and pedagogical structure of school education will be reconfigured”. The policy has introduced land mark pedagogical and curricular structure as depicted in the new policy.

Previous academic structure

New pedagogical & curricular structure

Salient Features of NEP 2020 in the Context of New Age Careers

School Education

  • Internship opportunities be made available throughout grades VI to XII
  • 4 years of multidisciplinary studies with greater flexibility and choice of subjects (Section 4.2)
  • No more silos like curricular vs. co-curricular vs. extra-curricular
  • No more silos of arts vs. commerce vs. science or vocational vs. academic streams. (Section 4.9)
  • Regular subjects plus choice in P.E/art & craft /vocational skills (Section 4.9)
  • Collaboration with ITI, Polytechnic, Local industry (Section 4.26)

Higher Education

  • All higher education institutions will be converted to multidisciplinary universities (Section10.1)
  • The National Testing Agency will work to offer a high-quality common aptitude test as well as specialized common subject exams in the science, humanities, language, arts, and vocational subjects, at least twice a year (Section 4.42)
  • Higher education institutions will have to offer vocation education either on their own or through partnership with industries & NGO….” (Section 11.8)
  • International universities setting camp in India and Indian universities will go abroad (Section12.8)

Vocational Education

  • Integration of vocational education programmes into mainstream education in all education institutions in a phased manner
  • Beginning with vocational exposure at early ages in middle and secondary school (Section16.4)
  • By 2025, at least 50% of learners through the school and higher education system shall have exposure to vocational education (Section16.5)
 

Paradigm Shift Expected in Education and Careers in 21st Century

The educational policy high lights the paradigm shift expected in the 21st Century with regard to education and careers. Some of the most important excerpts from the NEP 2020 policy are given below :

  • There will be a growing demand for humanities and art, as India moves towards becoming a developed country as well as among the three largest economies in the world”.

  • “With various dramatic scientific and technological advances, such as the rise of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, many unskilled jobs worldwide may be taken over by machines”.

  • “The need for a skilled workforce, particularly involving mathematics, computer science, and data science, in conjunction with multidisciplinary abilities across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, will be increasingly in greater demand”.

  • “The world is undergoing rapid changes in the knowledge landscape”.

  • “With climate change, increasing pollution, and depleting natural resources, there will be a sizeable shift in how we meet the world’s energy, water, food, and sanitation needs, again resulting in the need for new skilled labour, particularly in biology, chemistry, physics, agriculture, climate science, and social science”.

  • “The growing emergence of epidemics and pandemics will also call for collaborative research in infectious disease management and development of vaccines and the resultant social issues heightens the need for multidisciplinary learning”.

 

The above factors demand educational counsellors and career experts to align in new ways with governments and educational institutions to “recognise, identify and foster the unique capabilities of each student” at an age appropriate and class appropriate manner.

CareerSpotters Offers New Age Career Solutions Aligned with NEP 2020

  • To address the above career challenges multifarious psychometric assessments are offered to “recognise, identify and foster the unique capabilities of each student”.

  • Career experts offer career guidance solutions to students to deliver ground-breaking impact in choice of right subjects, streams, courses and colleges.

  • Our career booster programmes enable students throughout their educational journey in discovering and preparing them to pursue their dream career that they love to pursue aligned with NEP 2020.