Will implement best practices of NEP 2020, says Goa CM Pramod Sawant

MARGAO: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that the state will be “implementing and replicating” the best practices of the National Education Policy, 2020, in the state.
He made this statement from his official twitter handle while also announcing that he participated in the national conference of school education ministers chaired by Union minister for education Dharmendra Pradhan, and attended by chief minister of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel, education ministers and officials of other states. Sawant said that at the conference discussion took place with regards to speeding up the implementation of the NEP 2020.
Sawant had earlier said that the NEP 2020 would be implemented from the next academic year on a trial basis.
The policy replaces the National Policy on Education, 1986, and aims to transform the country’s education system by 2040.
It aims to provide infrastructure support, innovative education centres to bring back dropouts into the mainstream, besides tracking students and their learning levels, facilitating multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education modes and association of counsellors or well-trained social workers with schools. Having a single regulator for higher education institutions, multiple entry and exit options in degree courses, the low-stakes board exams, and common entrance exams for universities, are some of the key takeaways from the new policy.