Lecture on ‘NEP: Opportunities and Challenges’

BARPETA: The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Barpeta Girls’ College, in collaboration with Girijananda Chowdhury University in Guwahati, organized a lecture programme on ‘NEP: Opportunities and Challenges’ in the college on Wednesday.Anchored by Dr. Akbar Ali Ahmed, Co-ordinator of the IQAC of the college, the lecture programme started with welcome address by Dr. Birinchi Kumar Das, Principal of Barpeta Girls’ College, who said that the academic and intellectual collaboration with Girijananda Chowdhury University would help Barpeta Girls’ College to find its future direction. With faculty members, non-teaching employees and students of Barpeta Girls’ College in the audience, the lecture on the topic was delivered by Dr. Kandarpa Das, Vice Chancellor of Girijananda Chowdhury University. He explained various aspects of the NEP-2020 in simple terms so as to make it easy for the students to understand. He said that NEP-2020 will create opportunity in higher education mainly in three things.

Firstly, it will relieve the students from the burden of the present examination-centric education by replacing it with a learning-centric education. Secondly, instead of the present fragmented education, the NEP-2020 will create a system in which students will get opportunity to select areas of study according to their own choices across disciplines. Thirdly, NEP-2020 will bring the co-curricular and the extra-curricular activities inside the main framework of education. But the main challenge in efforts to achieve these goals will be to equip the educational institutions with the required facilities of all kinds. Dr. Dipankar Saha, Registrar of Girijananda Chowdhury University spoke about various academic programmes offered by the university. Today, a Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between Girijananda Chowdhury University and Barpeta Girls’ College.

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