Salient Features of New Education Policy 2020 and It’s Impact on Higher Education System of India

Abstract

The union cabinet paved the way for transformative reform in the school and higher education system by launching the New National Education Policy (NEP) on 29th July 2020. They also renamed MHRD as the Ministry of Education. After the old national education policy which was launched way back in 1986, this is the first education policy of the 21st century that has replaced 34 years old education policy. The new NEP is based on four pillars which are Access, Equity, Quality, and Accountability. In this new policy, there will be a 5+3+3+4 structure which comprises 12 years of school and 3 years of Anganwadi / pre-school replacing the old 10+2 structure. Though the education policy has impacted school and college education equally, this article mainly focuses on salient features of NEP2020 and its impact on Higher Education. This paper will also focusing on impact of using regional language in technical and medical disciplines.