18 Feb 2022

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has laid out a vision of education that’s necessary for the 21st Century. It recognizes that children today need to learn skills both ‘foundational skills’ of literacy and numeracy as well as ‘higher-order’ cognitive skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, and social and emotional skills such as cultural awareness and empathy, perseverance and grit, teamwork, leadership, communication. Early childhood education has been made compulsory for all children from the age of 3.