The Attitude of Experts in Higher Education Towards New NEP-2020

India's educational system is poised at a fascinating turning moment, in preparation for the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The NEP 2020's underlying vision is to prepare a highly educated and literate generation to appropriately assume social, economic, and political duties. The Indian Government has proclaimed that the NEP 2020 is a tool to fight poverty and satisfy the demands of the 21st century. NEP-2020 is a comprehensive framework emphasizing education from the primary level to higher education in the nation and will replace the National Policy on Education 1986. Though the Government sought inputs and suggestions from citizens, educationists, and other stakeholders on a draft of NEP, some of the stakeholders have levelled several criticisms against NEP 2020 and shown reluctance in its implementation. The present investigation aimed at assessing NEP 2020 based on the attitudes of educationists towards it and seeking valuable suggestions from them for the successful implementation of the new NEP to accomplish its objectives in a very efficient and effective way. Fishbein’s multi-attribute model is used in this research to measure the attitudes of educationists in India in quantitative terms. Statistical analysis is performed on the average attitude score to judge the degree of favourableness of attitudes. Seven features that an education policy must possess are derived from the review of the inputs and suggestions given by various experts to the committee constituted by the then Ministry of Human Resource Development in June 2017 and used as attributes to apply Fishbein’s model.

Keywords: Attitude, Belief, Evaluation, HEIs, NEP, NEP- Attribute linkage.