{"id":29996,"date":"2020-03-06T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=29996"},"modified":"2020-03-06T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:30:28","slug":"india-to-launch-new-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/india-to-launch-new-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"India to launch new education policy in April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India&#8217;s higher education secretary Amit Khare has announced that the current administration would be unveiling new education policy in April for the development of the education sector.<\/strong><br \/>\nKhare made this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/luckykhare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> while addressing the general public at the International world women&#8217;s day celebration, where he noted that the new education policy has been in production for a very long time.<br \/>\n<strong>According to him, the new education policy will enable special recognition for girl child education and also include special funding geared towards the girl child education fees.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/biotechnology-industry-hit-150bn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> that the new education policy proposed by the center would transform the sector and help the country become the &#8216;Vishwa Guru&#8217; of the world.<br \/>\nHe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the proposed educational policy is expected to bring in a positive change in the lives of the new generation and its fruitful implementation will help India acquire the title of \u2018Vishwa Guru.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Pokhriya <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/increased-employment-turnout-rate-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> that India has not been able to impart value education although the country has over 1,000 universities, 45,000-degree colleges, 16 lakh schools, one crore teachers, and 33 crores, students. Necessitating the need for the new education policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the new education policy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>According to Pokhriyal, the new education policy is based on the country&#8217;s ethos and value system. It is designed to strengthen the community, mold new citizens, and make their lives more meaningful. The new education policy is expected to bring about educational growth in India.<\/strong><br \/>\nIndia&#8217;s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, at the Union Budget 2020, highlighted expectations the new education policy would lead to.<br \/>\n<strong>He noted that &#8216;Aspirational India&#8217; will focus on &#8220;greater inflow of finance to attract talented teachers, innovate and build better labs.&#8221; The policy will focus further on skill-based education.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>India has made particular strides in the policy environment, with a new national education policy published in early 2019 that explicitly mentions future-oriented skills such as critical thinking, communication and entrepreneurship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Government pushing for education growth<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to news reports, the government is now actively working on a significant overhaul of the regulatory system in higher education.<br \/>\nThis reform has been long overdue and, after the passage of the landmark National Medical Commission Act, the natural next step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s higher education secretary Amit Khare has announced that the current administration would be unveiling new education policy in April for the development of the education sector. Khare made this statement while addressing the general public at the International world women&#8217;s day celebration, where he noted that the new education policy has been in production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":29997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}