The National Education Policy is a great opportunity for the Government of India to set right architecture education. Explain (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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IAS Parliament 2 years
KEY POINTS
· NEP seeks a close connection between education and profession, and directs professional bodies such as the CoA to set standards that education will strive to meet.
· It means that though education commences in campus, it will mature in practice. Second, undergraduate courses should be liberal, allowing students to be trained and to help identify their paths.
· Unlike the current model that trains only a professional apprentice, NEP enables students to take either a practice or a research route. This is bound to pave the way for diverse programmes and support research training.
· Autonomy will be granted to institutions, which will save them from stifling regulatory arrangements and the standardised programmes they push.
· NEP’s mission to restructure undergraduate education as a three-year, liberal, broad-based education bodes well for architecture. Shorter programmes can build sufficient capacities to work as apprentices in industry/field-based organisation.
· The world over, professional bodies focus on professional standards and let academic institutions decide their creative ways to meet the objectives. NEP promises that.
· Architecture institutions pack semesters with many subjects. They far exceed an average of 55 hours work week and deny space for the pursuit of personal development.
