New Education Policy: Boon, Bane or What

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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Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM

Dr APJ Educational Consultancy

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