UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 emphasises that vocational and academic education should not be placed in a hierarchy. It calls for integrating vocational exposure into the curriculum for all students and promoting respect for all forms of work, thereby improving employability and social dignity.

Option A:
Treating vocational education as separate and inferior reinforces stigma and is explicitly criticised in the policy.

Option B:
This option correctly reflects NEP’s goal of integrating vocational education within mainstream schooling and valuing it on par with academic learning.

Option C:
Abolishing vocational education would remove an important avenue for skill development and contradicts NEP’s push for skills for all.

Option D:
Offering vocational education only to those who “fail” in academics deepens stigma and goes directly against the policy’s inclusive and parity-based approach.