Chemists welcome India’s new education policy’s focus on interdisciplinary learning
Policy wins backing from academics but concerns remain around funding and implementation
India’s top chemists are expecting the country’s new education policy (NEP) to usher in a new era of interdisciplinary teaching and research across universities, most of which have stuck to a decades-old format of rigid separation of disciplines.
The NEP, launched at the end of July, ‘envisions a complete overhaul and re-energising of the higher education system’. Besides a shift to a multidisciplinary undergraduate education, it aims to revamp curricula, and both faculty and institutional autonomy.