VOCATIONALIZATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM THROUGH NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020

Education, Social Sciences

Government of India launched The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 to promote the India centered education system to contribute directly to transforming our nation sustainably into a fair and vibrant knowledge society, by providing quality education. Vocational training courses has been focused equivalent to the non-vocational courses in order to enhance the employability skills as well as to make the youth’s self-dependent. The main thrust of National Education Policy 2020 is to raise the standard of school education system in India at par with global standards through various comprehensive measures such as revamping of the curriculum, examination structure, regulatory regime, teacher education, etc. Different reforms are introduced in the school systems like in curriculum pedagogy, governance, technology etc. Unfortunately, most fail to achieve the substantial improvements in student achievement that their advocates hoped for and, overall. Vocational Education and Training is an important element of the nation’s education initiative. Vocational Education is based on occupation and employment and it is the need of the hour for a country like India. It can be defined as skilled based education. Vocational Education helps in Economic growth. The India education system recognized the role of education and particularly Vocational Education. National Council for Vocational Training, an advisory body, was set up by the Government of India plays its important role in implementation of Vocational Education in India. This study is basically conducted to see the different vocational education provisions in the recently introduced NEP,2020 and also to find out the challenges in the present context. This study is conducted mainly based on secondary literatures and conclusions are made based on the analysis of the secondary data.

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