NEW EDUCATION POLICY: BOON, BANE OR WHAT Chief Guest: Dr N V Varghese Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
6:00 PM
Welcome Address
Mr N Sathiya Moorthy Distinguished Fellow & Head (Chennai Initiative) Observer Research Foundation
Special Address
Distinguished Guests of Honour: Prof Rishikesh B S Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Chief Guest:
Dr N V Varghese Vice Chancellor, National Institute of
Ms Chitra Gurumurthy Former Academic Director - C.B.S.E. & Joint Commissioner, KV Sangathan
Educational Planning and Administration
Panel Discussion:
Dr N V Varghese Prof Rishikesh B S
Dr Gayathri Deepak Founder and Director, Chetana Education
Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Ms Chitra Gurumurthy
Moderator: Dr L S Ganesh Professor, Dept. of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Former Academic Director - C.B.S.E. & Joint Commissioner, KV Sangathan
Dr Gayathri Deepak Founder and Director, Chetana Education
Moderator
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Dr L S Ganesh
OCT 12, 2020 | 6.00 PM
Professor, Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Q&A Session
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Executive Director Madras Management Association
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Synopsis The Union Cabinet recently cleared the 'New Education Policy' (NEP), after the committee, headed by former ISRO Chairman, S Kasturirangan, had vetted public comments and criticism on its Draft Report. Experts have brought out a lot of positives, and some negatives, as well. Included in the list is the wisdom of having a comprehensive Policy on education from Pre-KG to PG, PhD and beyond. The basic question here is if the Indian State should encourage schooling from a tender-age of three years, when in the developed world, they are already taking a re-look at such schemes that they have been practising for a few decades now. There are other specifics, too, over which multiple views have emerged. Making the public face of both for-or-against argument is the 'Three Language Policy', over which there has been a national discourse. More importantly, multiple questions of federal principles remain -- whether the State Governments as constitutionallymandated stake-holders should be, or should have been consulted and engaged from an early stage. This also owes to the fact that the State Governments, as of now, are the implementing authority in most cases, and the belief that a centralised, national agency, cannot penetrate to the last village, despite the vast spread of IT-enabled schooling, school administration and education management all levels. Leave aside what the authors of the Policy made have done, there is a need to assess the implementation part vis a vis the proposed framework, drawing from the experience with the existing policies, systems and the like, across the country.
Distinguished Speakers
Dr N V Varghese
Prof Rishikesh B S
Vice Chancellor, National Institute of
Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Educational Planning and Administration
Ms Chitra Gurumurthy
Dr Gayathri Deepak
Former Academic Director - C.B.S.E. &
Founder and Director, Chetana Education
Joint Commissioner, KV Sangathan
Dr L S Ganesh Professor, Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras
MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION