<center><b>ASSOCHAM Southern region presents </b></center>
      <center><b> Webinar on</b></center>
      <center><b>\&quot;Decoding of National Education Policy 2020 - Changes, Impact and Implementation Strategies in 
      School Education&quot;\</b></center>
      <center><b> 30th September 2020 | 11:00 AM to 01:00PM</b></center>
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      <center><b>Notes</b></center>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator: Dr. Suresh Mony, </b>Founder & Director, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies 
      (NMIMS) & Key Advisory Member for ASSOCHAM Karnataka CSR Committee.M</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Speakers: </b></p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>• Dr. Niyati Chitkara,</b> Vice President - Schools, Chitkara Educational Trust</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>• Dr. R. Vijay Kumar,</b> Regional Director - ERC, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) </p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>• Shri. Vinesh Menon,</b> CEO - Education, Skilling and Consulting Services, Ampersand Group</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>• Dr. H. B. Chandrashekar,</b> Senior Assistant Director, Department of State Education Research 
      and Training (DSERT), Bengaluru</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>• Smt. B. Seshu Kumari,</b> Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), 
      Government of Telangana</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Uma S Nair </b>- Welcomed the panellists and the participants and partners to the program.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. Niyati Chitkara </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State 
      perspectives about the NEP 2020. With the roll out of promising NEP 2020, it is pertinent to understand 
      the nuances of the changes in it to give a stimulus to Indian School Education system. In light of the same, 
      said has propounded her avant-garde ideas on this much-talked new education policy.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'>Technology is one thing that has helped the businesses, organsiations and people at large connect with 
      each other and keep the momentum going. In similar line, technology is an important part be it school 
      curriculum or simply bridging or connecting two levels of government together. Technological platforms 
      should be employed to collaborate and communicate. Furthermore, framework of the same should be 
      designed keeping in mind the challenges, and hence focus should be on the personalization & research 
      part of it divergent from the content part. This shall greatly augment as technology in itself is 
      interdisciplinary, integrated, innovative, research-oriented, inquiry-based etc.</p> 
      <p style='text-align:justify;'> Another inventive element that could bridge the two levels of government or bring closer the duo of 
      private & government is Accreditation. As has been for Chitkara International School, 5 years back (one 
      of the only 70 accredited schools of country); the accreditation has helped it communicate in a better 
      way. More so, Accreditation is a brilliant support mechanism that validates system and ensures one is 
      working at a quality level in multiple operations.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. R. Vijay Kumar</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State 
      perspectives about the NEP 2020. He said this National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education 
      (NCFTE, 2009) elaborates the context, concerns and vision underscoring that teacher education and 
      school education have a symbiotic relationship and developments in both these sectors mutually reinforce 
      the concerns necessary for qualitative improvements of the entire spectrum of education including 
      teacher education as well. The new concerns of school curriculum and the expected transactional 
      modalities have been emphasized in designing this Framework for all stages of school education. Issues 
      related to inclusive education, perspectives for equitable and sustainable development, gender 
      perspectives, role of community knowledge in education and ICT in schooling as well as e-learning become 
      the centre-stage in the Framework.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'>The curriculum of teacher education is broadly dealt with under foundations of education, curriculum and 
      pedagogy and school internship. The foundations of education include learner studies, contemporary 
      studies, and educational studies. Curriculum and pedagogy deal with curriculum studies, pedagogic 
      studies and assessment and evaluation studies. The school internship is visualized by situating the practice 
      of teaching in the broader context of vision and the role of teacher and sustained engagement with 
      learners and schools. In a departure from the existing approaches, the rationale of each major area 
      alongwith curricular provisions, both in theory and practicum, have been indicated, leaving scope for 
      individual reflection on the part of the institutions offering teacher education and the academics 
      associated with them.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Shri. Vinesh Menon </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State 
      perspectives about the NEP 2020. He stressed to give more importance to teachers and address their 
      issues as they play an important role in the Education sector. He suggested to identify an immediate 
      implementation agency to execute the NEP 2020 in the State and Schools. Also suggested to setup an 
      agency needs to create a platform to empower, implement and improve the sub critical institutions to be 
      improved. This NEP provides more opportunities to Industry and Institutions and suggested to explore 
      such opportunities. This NEP provides more opportunities to Industry and Institutions and suggested to 
      explore such opportunities.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Dr. H. B. Chandrashekar </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State 
      perspectives about the NEP 2020. He said the investment in education is key for getting desired outcomes. 
      In this regard, it is important to ensure the Govt expenditure on education is 10% of GDP. The Governance 
      of Anganawadis/Pre-Primary Education needs to be transferred to Education Department. The nutrition 
      and health part can be with the Women and Child Department and Health department respectively. This 
      step will helps to ensure universal access in ECCE.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'>Said to ensure Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, the Pupil Teacher Ratio in Classes till 5 has to be 1: 
      20 at School/Class level. The cadre of Primary school teacher must be suitable revised in such a way that 
      the researchers/academicians/experts can also join as teachers after they complete a suitable course. The 
      salary of primary/Higher Primary school teachers should be on par with college teachers. This will attract 
      talented and interested people to take up teaching profession at Primary level. The service conditions of 
      primary school teachers should be improved so that there will be no disturbance (non-teaching activities) 
      to teachers. </p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'>The shift of mind in teachers (Metanoia) has to happen to make teaching enquiry, discussion, discovery 
      based. The transformation in the pedagogical practices of teachers is the key to change the education 
      scenario of the country. In this context, the belief system and attitudes of teachers must be changed and 
      this is a challenge to make it happen. Different strategies/programmes/activities must be developed after 
      the detailed deliberations. Small scale and big scale industries and commerce establishments have to be 
      associated with school education to sensitize/orient secondary/higher secondary school students on 
      vocations.</p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Smt. B. Seshu Kumari </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the State 
      perspectives about the NEP 2020. She stressed about universalization of Early childhood care and 
      education (ECCE) is more than preparation for primary school. It aims at the holistic development of a 
      child&apos;s social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs in order to build a solid and broad foundation for 
      lifelong learning and wellbeing. ECCE has the possibility to nurture caring, capable and responsible 
      future citizens. The implementation plays an important role in NEP. She said that system approach in the 
      NEP such as multi-disciplinary, vocational education and single window regulatory to help achieve the 
      NEP goals. She suggested to include the regional language teaching and study materials which will help 
      the local community students to peruse the education. She also suggested to collaborative approach 
      from Industry, Institute and academia with government to create a better ecosystem.</p>