New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that several provisions outlined in the new National Education Policy (NEP 2020) are aimed at the internationalisation of education and will help in providing students affordable and quality education.
“Lot of students from India are interested in going for higher education overseas, famous destination is US, UK or Australia. The new National Education Policy (NEP) has provisions which focus on internationalisation of education and multidisciplinary education,” Pradhan said during the US-India Business Council (USIBC) India Ideas Summit in his address.
“Under the new NEP, we want to invite global education institutions, some of our Indian institutions can collaborate with prestigious US institutions. In that way number of students will be benefited in a bigger way,” Pradhan added.
According to Pradhan, when foreign universities will come to India, they will either have to tie up with any Indian varsity or can open up on their own as well.
“That will create new scope for our Indian students by giving them affordable and quality education. Personally, I am very impressed about research capability of American universities which is a driving factor in its economy,” Pradhan added.
“We are open to exploring academic partnerships and the NEP is giving policy framework for that only. We also have to catch up with the rapidly changing job natures and requirement of skills.
“We have a robust number of higher education students who need skilling, reskilling and upskilling to compete in the global job market and be in the ecosystem,” the education minister said.
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