Navigating a Change:An In-depth Analysis of the National Education Policy’s Impact on Learning and Development

The patterns and trends in formal higher education are changing. As world economy is moving towards a knowledge based economy, the needs and requirements of formal higher education are also changing. Countries are currently reevaluating their options of formalizing their growing education sector by drafting new education policy that aims to meet the demands of this futuristic knowledge based and technology driven economy with involvement of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML). Factors addressing core competence of employability, holistic development and attainment of skills are the new mantras of evolving modern day’s economy. To be in sync with such demand, requirement, and challenges, the Indian government took a significant step in drafting a New Education Policy popularly known as ‘NEP 2020’. This paper makes an attempt to analyze the significant characteristics and dimensions of this NEP 2020 by undertaking a survey among stakeholders mostly students to arrive at certain key findings such as inducing centric, employable, skillful, and holistic development of students attaining such higher education. It also points out some of the implementation issues which require lead time to be adjusted with the system.