PANAJI
The school education ecosystem in Goa may be still skeptical but Chief Minister Pramod Sawant seems firm that the National Education Policy (NEP) will be implemented in the State from the upcoming academic year.
Sawant, who also holds the education portfolio, said that the education department will begin implementing the NEP from the next academic year, while addressing participants at the inaugural of a national seminar on ‘Quality Improvement of Teacher Education in the context of NEP-2020’.
Sawant said the NEP will be introduced for the foundation courses (pre-primary) and also at the ‘higher education’ level.
“We will implement it strictly for foundation courses and at the Higher Education level,” Sawant said, and claimed that Goa is ahead of other States in terms of preparing its educational institutions for implementing the NEP.
He also exhorted all stakeholders, including teachers and managments of educational institutions, to contribute their might in implementing the NEP. Academicians and experts from 20 States are participating in the seminar, which Sawant said will help in firming up the roadmap for NEP implementation.
