The National Education Policy 2020 with a vision of universalization of education from pre-school to secondary level aims to do away with rote learning eventually and focus more on conceptual and analytical learning instead, says Kriti Garg from SAI International School. In an all-new series titled Students' Corner, which puts special emphasis on children, Shreyosi Chakraborty from EducationWorld interviews Students' Council representatives to know their side of the story, understanding their advantages or disadvantages on recent educational trends.
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"Initially, the pandemic felt like a holiday," says 14-year-old Saksham Sachdeva, head-boy from Narayana e-Techno school, Delhi-NCR, as he engages in a conversation with Shreyosi Chakraborty from EducationWorld about his thoughts on school reopening, learning loss, post-covid problems, online teaching and the pandemic. "As days converted into weeks, months passed by and the lockdown went on increasing was when we understood the impact this 'holiday' would have on our lives for the next few months or even years.
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