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Time of India
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
All set for State Education Policy from 2025-26
SEP Drafting Committee State Education Policy Commission The Karnataka government is preparing to roll out the State Education Policy (SEP), designed as an alternative to the Centre's National Education Policy (NEP), starting from the 2025-26 academic year. A final decision on the implementation is expected by the end of this the submission of an interim report by the, the state has already taken steps to roll back some of the NEP's key components. From the 2024-25 academic year, the undergraduate course duration—extended to four years under NEP—has been reverted to three multiple-entry, multiple-exit model introduced under NEP has also been shelved. The final SEP report, currently being translated from English to Kannada, is nearing expected to submit the final draft to the government by the last week of May.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
SC's call on NEP 2020 vindicates Bengal's stand: Bratya
1 2 3 Kolkata: Reacting to Supreme Court's observation on Friday that it cannot force a state to adopt National Education Policy 2020 , state education minister Bratya Basu said this vindicated Bengal's PIL was filed by a BJP lawyer from Tamil Nadu seeking direction to the TN, Kerala and Bengal govts to implement NEP 2020. The SC bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said: "We cannot directly compel a state to adopt a policy like National Education Policy 2020. "Basu wrote on X: "The Hon'ble Supreme Court has once again upheld the State Government's position that while the broad contours may be fixed by the Centre, education policy should be left to the state govts to accommodate the diversity of our country." The minister added that this proved "how far ahead" CM Mamata Banerjee, "under whose guidance we formulated the State Education Policy maintaining the basic structure that is applicable for the whole country", and professors also welcomed the SC's observation. Former Jadavpur University and Calcutta University VC Suranjan Das, who was part of the state expert committee, said: "When we started to formulate the education policy, we looked at two perspectives. We did not want a situation where our students would remain isolated from the rest of the country. Similarly, in the teaching and learning part, we did not want the state to be completely de-linked from the country. Hence, we took the best practices of NEP 2020 and framed our policy in tune with Bengal's requirements and needs."General secretary of All India Save Education Committee, Tarun Kanti Naskar, said: "We have been opposing this policy from the very beginning and so welcome this observation of the apex court. Education is under the concurrent list, which means both the Centre and states can legislate on education. However, the present governing dispensation at the Centre is used to considering it as under the central list and forcibly imposing all central policies, including NEP 2020, on states. Also, NEP is not legislation but a Cabinet decision. Central govt thus violates the spirit of federalism. This policy is a blueprint of privatisation, corporatisation, commercialisation and communalisation of education."West Bengal College and University Teachers' Association general secretary Keshab Bhattacharyya said: "We were always against implementation of NEP 2020 as it will destroy the public education system and pave the way for privatisation of education."Bengal had in April 2023 constituted an expert committee which checked initiatives of other states like Maharashtra and Kerala and other education panel reports — both at state and national levels — before submitting its recommendations for the State Education Policy (SEP).SEP 2020 sees the continuation of the state's 5+4+2+2 school structure — one year of pre-primary and four years of primary till Class 4; four years of upper primary till Class 8; two years of secondary education (Class 9 to 10) and two years of higher secondary (Class 11 to 12) — as opposed to the 5+3+3+4 division recommended by NEP 2020. The three-language formula in SEP 2020 also gives importance to the mother tongue. For higher education, four-year UG courses have been rolled out, keeping in mind the future of lakhs of students.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Govt yet to appoint V-C search committees despite SC order
Chennai: University of Madras sent a circular to eight colleges in March, asking them to postpone college graduation as it could not provide UG, PG, and MPhil degree certificates. Following an uproar, the circular was withdrawn. Likewise, Anna University announced that it would take severe action against faculty members and colleges involved in a fake faculty row last year. One year has passed, but no action has been taken so far. These are just a few examples of how state universities have been crippled without vice-chancellors. As many as 10 state universities have been functioning without vice-chancellors. Despite the Supreme Court's order empowering the state govt in appointing vice-chancellors to state universities, the Tamil Nadu govt is yet to form vice-chancellor search panels. "They have a clear mandate from the Supreme Court to appoint vice-chancellors for state universities. The state govt should go ahead and appoint vice-chancellor search committees as per the university acts," former Anna University vice-chancellor E Balagurusamy said. "The higher education department should initiate action for appointing V-C search committees based on the university acts. There is no need to wait anymore," he added. Several educational reforms, including revamping basic science degree programmes, introducing interdisciplinary programmes, and online degrees, have been long overdue without the academic heads for state universities. "The University of Madras used to be a pioneer in bringing innovative educational reforms in the state. Now, the university is at its lowest point as it has been functioning without a vice-chancellor for the past two years," said P Duraisamy, former vice-chancellor, University of Madras. The university decided to introduce online degrees in 2021. Due to a financial crisis, it could not launch an online degree in the past four years. "The entire education system has taken a step backward because of the stalemate in appointing vice-chancellors," said N Rajendran, former vice-chancellor of Alagappa University. Educationists urged the state govt to release the draft State Education Policy to get rid of confusion surrounding implementation of the National Education Policy. "The state govt need not implement the provisions of the National Education Policy. However, it should release the draft State Education Policy and frame the policy after public discussions," said V Vasanthi Devi, former vice-chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli.
The Hindu
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Unease over delay in circulation of SEP draft palpable in State universities
Amid the tussle between the State Government and the office of Governor and Chancellor to wield authority over matters of higher education, the sense of unease among universities and colleges in the State over the apparent delay in circulation of the draft of State Education Policy (SEP) is palpable, academicians say. The draft of the SEP was submitted to the State Government by Justice Murugesan-led panel during July 2024, as an alternative to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. 'The State Universities ought to be provided with the draft of SEP, and given the leverage to adopt at least those provisions that are compatible with NEP 2020, to navigate through the norms of the University Grants Commission,' former Vice-Chancellor of Madras and Madurai Kamaraj Universities P.K. Ponnuswamy said. 'It is quite difficult for State universities to resist the changes that the UGC intends to bring about in the arenas of higher education and research,' he said. Another former Vice-Chancellor of a State University, requesting anonymity, said the UGC notification emphasising presence of its nominee in the V-C Selection Committees notwithstanding, the provisions for V-C appointment in the statutes of the individual universities is what actually mattered. The UGC nominee can be included in the V-C selection panels only after the Syndicates of the universities adopted resolutions to that effect and make changes in the statutes. While the State government is staunchly opposed to NEP 2020 in toto, there is little scope for the universities to toe the line, as they are constrained to inevitably put themselves in the reckoning for the periodic NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Committee) rating and the annual NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework), the academics point out.
