Half-baked reforms
AK Ghosh | 28 December 2023 | The Statesman
Toeing the line set by the rest of the world, India has seen the massification of higher education in the new millennium. The NEP-2020 is posed to transform India with the sole objective of making education holistic and multidisciplinary.
The NEP has tied this goal to one specific reform of the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) with multiple exit/entry systems (MEES), which, it is feared, would produce qualified professionals who will not be able to meet market demands. Since publicfunded institutions are highly sought after mostly by citybased students, it is likely to create a higher education crisis even bigger than in 2014 when the idea was mooted.