The best chance for architecture
The HinduRecent documents give a sense of how the National Education Policy will play out in professional education. First, 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. Third, unlike the current model that trains only a professional apprentice, NEP enables students to take either a practice or a research route. Finally, despite architecture practice scaling up and becoming multidisciplinary, education offers less scope for diverse specialisations and does not equip students to solve complex design problems. NEP’s mission to restructure undergraduate education as a three-year, liberal, broad-based education bodes well for architecture.