DD News Nagaland's video: PRESIDENT NEA DR ZAVISE RUME SAYS NEP 2020 IS IN RESPONSE TO PEOPLE S DEMAND FOR NEW EDUCATION

PANEL DISCUSSION ON VISION OF NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY (NEP) 2020 IN NAGALAND ORGANISED BY THE NAGALAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WAS HELD TODAY AT THE DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, KOHIMA. PRESIDENT OF NAGALAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION DR. ZAVISE RUME WHILE DELIVERING A KEYNOTE SAID THE NAGALAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PROMISES HEALTHY INTERACTION ON ISSUES RELATED TO EDUCATION THROUGH DISCUSSION OF ACADEMIC AND DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEP 2020 VISIONS IN NAGALAND. HE SAID NEP 2020 IS AN AMBITIOUS RE-IMAGINATION OF INDIA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM AND DETERMINATION TO TRANSFORM INDIA INTO A MODERN PROGRESSIVE EQUITABLE SOCIETY. NEP 2020 IS IN RESPONSE TO THE PEOPLE'S DEMAND FOR A NEW EDUCATION WHICH IS MORE PRACTICAL JOB ORIENTED, AN EDUCATION WHICH CAN ENABLE CHILDREN TO GENERATE KNOWLEDGE AS A RESULT OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE, HE SAID. RUME SAID, OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM SUFFERS FROM THE BASIS AND FOUNDATION, THEREFORE WE NEED TO DISCUSS OUR INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, WHICH CAN BE THE BASIS OF OUR MODERN EDUCATION. SHARING HIS VIEW THAT TEACHERS ARE THE HEART OF THE LEARNING PROCESS AND CENTER OF FUNDAMENTAL REFORMS IN EDUCATION, HE SAID TO RECRUIT THE BEST TEACHERS ALL APPOINTMENTS IN EDUCATION MUST BEGIN FROM THE TEACHER COMMUNITY. NO INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT A TEACHING BACKGROUND CAN BE APPOINTED AS TEACHER EDUCATORS OR TRAINERS, HE FURTHER ADDED. THE PANELISTS INCLUDED, DR. KHOTELE KHIEYA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, NAGALAND UNIVERSITY, DR. BENDANGYAPANGLA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, STATE COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION, KOHIMA AND DR. MEDONGOI RHAKHO, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, HIGHER EDUCATION, NAGALAND