New Education Policy envisions imparting 21st century, employability skills: Kasturirangan

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisions imparting the 21st century and employability skills with no compromise on quality, says its draft panel head K. Kasturirangan.

The idea of a liberal or a multi-disciplinary education at the undergraduate(UG) level and also a type of four-year structuring of secondary education provides a lot of opportunities for picking up many types of skills, which can be even used as employment opportunities, he said.

"These are all part of developing 21st century skills because education embeds these kinds of things to qualify the youngster with respect to what is needed in the 21st century which is communication, creativity, problem-solving and things of that type," he told PTI in an interview.

'Quality is not compromised'

The former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the policy was aimed at putting the education in the right track using best of technologies and developments in the field, strengthening institutions, increasing gross intake ratio, among others, and at the same time, ensuring that quality is not compromised.