Wednesday, 29 December 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Vice Chancellor (VC) of HNB Garhwal University, Annpurna Nautiyal has said that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is focused on skill development through integration for self-reliance. She was presiding over the inaugural session of a training program on Strategies for Implementation of NEP-2020 on Tuesday.
The training programme is being organised by the Faculty Development Centre (FDC) , established under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching, Department of Higher Education, at the university.
In her address Nautiyal said that for making students self- reliant, the skills like translation, communication and tourism work can be developed along with diplomas and degrees. For implantation of this plan, required resources could be managed by institutions, technology and knowledge integration. She added that critical thinking and creativity goes hands in hand. She said that for this purpose, teachers need to be updated and upgraded as they are the agents of change.
The VC of Himalayiya University J P Pachauri, said that Indianness, universalisation of education, value inculcation and education in mother tongue are the four pillars of the NEP 2020 which aimed at economic development and social change by creating a knowledge society. For this purpose, the commitment of teachers and connectivity with the students is a must for quality education and research outcomes.
The coordinator and director of the FDC, Indoo Pandey Khanduri said that NEP-2020 is innovative in terms of its vision, mission and objective. It is very ambitious in terms of developing and grooming students in their full potential with multilayered knowledge and skills. For this purpose, the teachers need to be trained in terms of information and communication technology, digital teaching, pedagogy, theoretical and practical dimensions of teaching and multidisciplinary approach in teaching learning process. The participants will be trained through lectures, display and discourse taken by the resource persons from across the country.
The programme was attended by the higher education teachers of higher educational institutes from Maharashtra, West-Bengal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
