Analysis of Higher Education in Indian National Education Policy Proposal 2019 and its Implementation Challenges

Sreeramana Aithal and Shubhrajyotsna Aithal

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Abstract: Systematic education policy is essential for offering school and college education in a country due to the reason that education leads to progress in society. Different countries use different education systems with different stages during its life cycle of school and College education levels. Recently, the Government of India received a draft Education policy suggested by an expert committee headed by Dr. K. Kasturirangan, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The committee suggested both incremental and drastically changes in existing Indian education policy and give guidelines to effective implementation in the country by 2030. This is also in line with the Objectives of fourth Sustainable Development Goals to provide quality education for all citizens through fourth Educational Industry Revolution (EIR 4.0) in the country. This paper reviews the related literature during last few years on Indian Higher Education Policies and their consequences, Salient features and their focuses on the present draft of National Education policy 2019 through content analysis. The paper highlights on various policies proposed in the draft with the special emphasis on higher education section and compare them with the previous policies. The analysis also compares the possible effects of NEP 2019 proposal on private and public HEIs in terms of facilities & restrictions. The strength and weakness of the new policy are identified with respect to various stakeholders and listed. Appropriate suggestions are made to realize the policy and make it defect free and effective from a public point of reference and for the prosperity of the country.

Keywords: Higher education; National education policy; ABCD analysis; Predicted implications. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 A20 A23 M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07
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Published in International Journal of Applied Engineering and Management Letters (IJAEML) ISSN: 2581-7000. 3.2(2019): pp. 1-35

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