MHRD gets 77,000 letters on draft NEP
NEW DELHI, JULY 30, 2019 00:00 IST
The Human Resource Development Ministry has received more than 77,000 comments and letters on the draft National Education Policy (NEP), according to Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The extended deadline for accepting feedback from the public ends on Wednesday, July 31.
“About 5% of the feedback received so far is useful, and will be taken into account,” said a senior Ministry official. The Centre has been sifting through the recommendations and will take the next few weeks to make changes to the draft before it is submitted to the Cabinet for approval.
According to Ministry sources, the largest number of letters received so far — about a quarter of the total — came from a campaign opposing the draft NEP’s proposal to change school teacher recruitment norms.
The draft policy is scathing in its assessment of teacher recruitment procedures. “Current teacher recruitment does not involve any interviews or classroom demonstrations that assess motivation and passion; written examinations such as the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) often have little correlation with teaching ability,” it said.
Recommending a complete overhaul of the system, the draft NEP says that the TET must be strengthened “through improved test material correlated to capacities of outstanding teachers, both in terms of content and pedagogy.”
NEW DELHI, JULY 30, 2019 00:00 IST
The Human Resource Development Ministry has received more than 77,000 comments and letters on the draft National Education Policy (NEP), according to Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The extended deadline for accepting feedback from the public ends on Wednesday, July 31.
“About 5% of the feedback received so far is useful, and will be taken into account,” said a senior Ministry official. The Centre has been sifting through the recommendations and will take the next few weeks to make changes to the draft before it is submitted to the Cabinet for approval.
According to Ministry sources, the largest number of letters received so far — about a quarter of the total — came from a campaign opposing the draft NEP’s proposal to change school teacher recruitment norms.
The draft policy is scathing in its assessment of teacher recruitment procedures. “Current teacher recruitment does not involve any interviews or classroom demonstrations that assess motivation and passion; written examinations such as the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) often have little correlation with teaching ability,” it said.
Recommending a complete overhaul of the system, the draft NEP says that the TET must be strengthened “through improved test material correlated to capacities of outstanding teachers, both in terms of content and pedagogy.”
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