Stuck in the classroom — students, teachers, NEP 2020
The HinduIndian students in Higher Education are spending considerably more time in the classroom than their European Union and North American counterparts. On the other hand, Indian students enrolled in the new four-year undergraduate programmes in Indian universities must take five courses a semester with four hours of lectures a course a week. Thus, increased classroom time risks incentivising rote learning and perpetuating the school dynamics where teachers are owners of knowledge and students are passive recipients. The classroom time of two to three hours a course a week in the EU and North American universities, with a total teaching load of two to three courses a semester brings the average weekly classroom teaching load of a typical university teacher in these countries to nine hours. Thus, to realise the vision of the NEP 2020 fully, a serious reconsideration of the number of courses and classroom time a course in the new four-year undergraduate programmes across India is necessary.
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