‘Proposed 4-year degree course would speed up commercialisation of education’

The Karnataka unit of All India Save Education Committee has opposed substitute of three-year degree programs with four-year degree programs as proposed within the National Education Policy – 2020 (NEP-2020) stating that the transfer would speed up commercialisation of training and encourage the sale of degree certificates, like different commodities.

In a media launch, Allamaprabhu Bettadur, Karnataka president of the committee, mentioned that universities within the State have been going to implement the proposal in a rush with out discussing it with educationists and different specialists.

“With implementation of NEP-2020, the Union government is going to convert the education sector into fertile soil for reaping rich profits for global capitalists. The policy would turn higher education into a commodity and the students into customers… In the proposed four-year degree courses, the Kannada language would be taught only in two semesters. Instead of increasing the local language teaching to inculcate social concern, sensitivity and noble values, the purpose of language teaching would be reduced to only communication,” Mr. Bettadur mentioned including that the enlarged course would additionally add to the monetary burden of poorer college students.

Terming the proposal as anti-poor and pro-corporate, Mr. Bettadur known as upon college students, dad and mom and educationists to return ahead to oppose the federal government’s transfer.