Friday, March 26, 2021

New education system aims to create equitable society

'Kasturirangan said the NEP 2020 provides an integrated yet flexible approach towards education and gives importance to holistic, multi-disciplinary education.'

Press Trust of India reported at Careers 360.

"K Kasturirangan, chairman of the committee that drafted the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, on Thursday said the vision of India's new education system is to ensure that it touches each and every citizen's life and creates a just and equitable society.
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"He added that 'liberal education' in the contemporary discussion has its origins in India's age-old idea of liberal arts dating back to almost 1,400 years. 'In the modern-day social and economic landscape, this age-old Indian concept is now finding recognition in a new form. Liberal education explores the remarkable relationships that exist among the sciences and humanities, mathematics and arts, medicine and physics, etc, and more generally, the surprising unity of all fields of human endeavour,' he added. ..."

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