New Education Policy will ensure our higher education system remains a client of global science | The Indian Express

New Education Policy will ensure our higher education system remains a client of global science | The Indian Express

Written by Milind Sohoni, Oshin Dharap |Updated: July 18, 2019 8:21:32 am

The writer is with Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IIT Bombay. He is currently on deputation to IIT Goa.

Oshin Dharap is a researcher

New Education Policy will ensure our higher education system remains a client of global science

The absence of data is noted and the concerned national institute, NIEPA, is pulled up. However, the question of how we have produced millions of unemployable graduates is not addressed.

The NEP does offer the vision of India as a cultural, scientific and economic power. It lists some of the hurdles in achieving this. (Illustration by CR Sasikumar)

The National Education Policy (NEP) document is now up for discussion. The section on higher education starts with the agenda of a “revamp” of the sector to build a “world-class multi-disciplinary” system with a gross enrollment (GER) target of 50 per cent by 2035. Yet, it offers no guidance on what will happen to all these graduates or any analysis of employability.