NEP 2020 – 10 Priorities for Student Success and Learning in 2025
It’s 2025 and we are all set to move forward with priorities that can set students up for success.
This new year is even more special for the Indian stakeholders, as we go one step ahead in implementing the most visionary education policy ever, the National Education Policy NEP 2020.
What are the priorities for learning and student success in 2025?
Let’s discover!
Education Priorities for 2025 (Under the New Education Policy 2020)
1. Bridging Gaps in Foundational Literacy
We have come a long way from the Education Policy 1986, but the struggle to improve foundational literacy continues. Statistics reveal that only 42% of the Indian students between 14-18 years old were able to do basic math and were not able to read basic text.
And the condition of the overall foundational literacy is also not very impressive.
Here’s a look at the condition of foundational literacy in different parts of India:
Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Report Findings:
With these stark realities, improving the learning levels remains a top priority in 2025.
2. Curriculum Load to Focus on Thinking Skills
The National Education Policy 2023 focuses on holistic education. For this, the policymakers suggest a reduction in syllabus/curriculum content to its core essentials. The idea is to prioritize and make space for critical thinking with a discovery-based learning approach. So this is another priority that ranks high on this list (under the NEP 2020).
3. Disability Inclusion
In India education is a right. And as per India’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, the constitution safeguards the rights of people with disabilities.
Inclusion is another top priority under the NEP 2020.
This new aims to accommodate different students across different learning styles, needs, and backgrounds with the help of online education, improved infrastructure, and better educators for the differently-abled students.
4. Evaluating Trends
Data is the greatest support for collating valuable information and gaining insights about the student’s progress. In 2025, the focus shifts to data tracking and analyzing trends to evaluate a student’s progress. The National Education Policy NEP 2020 also highlights this point with the vision of a holistic multidimensional progress report card covering the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of a student. To make this task easy, the policymakers suggest the use of AI-based software to gather data (Point number 4.35 ).
5. Skill Building
Skill building is another priority in 2025 in the evolving world. Going forward, our students will need advanced skill sets to have an advantage in the global job market. Most educational institutions have already acknowledged the reforms suggested in the National Education Policy for skill building. And very soon many others are preparing to follow suit.
Key skills like collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication are the requirements of the 21st century. So the priority is to promote skill-building in our Indian students.
6. Increased Flexible and Better Choices
The next priority in 2025 for student success is flexibility. With better subject choices, online learning models (online schools), and a holistic approach, our Indian policymakers plan to make education flexible for students. This will help in addressing their unique needs (including the differently-abled, gifted, and academically backward ones). And also help in reducing the overall out-of-school numbers.
As of 2024, 1.17 million students were out of the mainstream schooling system. Reportedly, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number with 784,228 students falling in this category.
Flexible learning can be a game changer for many such students. So combining choices with innovative models (like hybrid or online learning) is a visionary move in the Indian context. The National Education Policy 2020 has come up with flexible curricular structures combining disciplines to create a highly flexible yet quality-driven educational system.
7. STEM Learning
70% of the highest-paying jobs in the world require STEM graduates!
And this makes STEM education a priority in 2025. The New Education Policy 2020 aims to craft a STEM future through an interdisciplinary approach. Hence, it aims at nurturing practical skills in students to prepare them for the global workforce.
Our government has already launched several initiatives (over and above the NEP 2020) to extend STEM opportunities to students. Some of these include the Atal Tinkering Labs, I-STEM, Skill India, etc.
8. Boosting Engagement
From the traditional rote learning methods to the present-day new-age learning, we have come a long way in acknowledging the importance of student engagement. The National Education Policy 2020 makes learning relevant for students to promote engagement at all levels. With a reduced curricular load and joyful activities, students will stay active throughout their learning process. And once the students are engaged they will acquire deep knowledge of concepts as well. All this will make students fully capable of applying their knowledge in real-world scenarios.
9. Equipping Teachers
Teachers are at the core of the entire teaching and learning process. And none of the initiatives under the National Education Policy 2023 can be fruitful without high-quality teachers (and their participation). There is an urgent need to equip our teachers with the necessary skills to implement NEP 2020 from the next academic session. So mentoring teachers is certainly a priority in 2025.
10. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
It is a well-known fact that academic performance largely depends on one’s mental health. And with a spike in the rise of mental health issues in students after the pandemic, the stakeholders are rightly prioritizing SEL. Unlike the Education Policy 1986, the new National Education Policy elaborates on this critical aspect perfectly.
Social and emotional learning is essential for one’s holistic development, and learning outcomes. So there is a need to focus more on this aspect in order to ensure student success.
In the coming days, our education system will witness several massive changes. And if we are able to address these priorities well, the future will be nothing short of a ‘DREAM COME TRUE’ for the Indian stakeholders!
Thanks for Reading!
Frequently Asked Questions
- Will the National Education Policy be fully implemented in 2025?
The NEP 2020 will be implemented in phases. However, some of the major changes will be implemented from the 2025 session onwards. - Is the New Education Policy focused on student-centricity?
Yes, the National Education Policy 2020 focuses on student centricity. Many of its’ reforms aim at engaging students purposely to improve the learning outcomes.
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