Implementation of NEP 2020
NEP 2020: Prabha Shankar Shukla, Vice-Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), said that the 75 colleges affiliated to the university are satisfied with the way the National Education Policy 2020 is being implemented.
Furthermore, he asserted that none of the directors of the affiliated colleges had publicly hinted at any difficulties in implementing the four-year undergraduate programs at their institutions. His remarks followed an ongoing “non-cooperation” agitation by the state’s college teachers’ umbrella body, the Meghalaya College Teachers Association (MCTA), which has demanded the policy be scrapped.
“A meeting with principals of all affiliated colleges was held on July 21, 2023. Most of the college principals said they were happy with the move (to implement NEP 2020),” the NEHU vice-chancellor said in a statement. He said that none of the faculty directors associated with the university have written to complain about the problem they are having in the implementation of the NEP 2020 in the part of four-year undergraduate studies.
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NEHU VC denies MCTA’s claim that NEP 2020 is being implemented without consultation
Shukla denied the MCTA’s claim that the NEP 2020 policy was “dictatorial” enacted without “consultation with all stakeholders” in July this year. According to a statement issued by the institution, the Academic Council formed a working group in September 2020 after discussing the matter and did so. The Executive Council then approved the task force in October of the same year.
It added that the university has been using NEP 2020 for its PG courses since last year. As part of the delegation that met the NEHU vice-chancellor on Monday, MCTA secretary Airpeace Rani said the teachers were “not happy” with the outcome of the meeting and that the “non-cooperation” movement by the college teachers would continue till the issue was resolved in the next session of the academic council. Council.
According to NEHU officials, the next academic council meeting is scheduled to be held in late October or early November this year.
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Source: HIS Education