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The digitalization of education: A boon or a bane? - My article in FE

The digitalization of education: A boon or a bane? - My article in FE  When the pandemic caught us unaware in March 2020, followed by the continued lockdowns, we all realized how digitization saved the day by altering our day-to-day lives, into what we started calling the ‘new normal’! Naysayers have been waxing eloquent that physical academic environments can enhance camaraderie and collaboration among students, infuse a sense of teamwork and community, and play a crucial role in their overall personality development. However, in the face of the unprecedented health crisis that the pandemic had unleashed, the feasibility of the aforementioned is minuscule, if at all. Read the article here.:   https://www.financialexpress.com/education-2/the-digitalization-of-education-a-boon-or-a-bane/2624411/ ... and in Hans India  https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/young-hans/the-digitalisation-of-education-a-boon-or-a-bane-757356

How New Education Policy will help build the foundations of "Atmanirbhar Bharat''

How NEP 2020 will serve as a foundation for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat As Nelson Mandela once famously said, “ The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.” The Nobel Peace Prize recipient recognized education as an indispensable vehicle to bring equality of opportunity to the world.   In context, India’s NEP 2020 is indeed a revolutionary policy reform from the perspective that it is the first education policy of the 21st century and it supplants the thirty-four-year-old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986. Developed robustly on the foundational tenets of Access, Equity, Quality, Affordability, and Accountability, the policy is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and global knowledge superpower by making both school and college education more holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary, crafte...