Wednesday, December 23, 2020

New Education Policy 2020: 50 Features to Know

 


The National Education Policy was first formulated in 1968. Education was then added to the public list in 1976 under the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution.

Then in 1986 the education policy was amended. Subsequently, although the education policy was amended in 1992, not much has changed. Subsequently, on May 27, 2016, the DSR Subramanian Committee filed some amendments in the Education Policy. Its 2019 2019 Kasturi Rangan Education Committee has filed.On July 29, the Union Cabinet approved a new education policy for 2020 based on this.

Key features in it;

This is the first education policy of the 21st century. The education policy, which has been in place for 34 years since 1986, has been replaced by a new one.The aim of the new education policy is to globalize education by raising the gross enrollment rate from Anganwadi to higher education to 100 per cent by 2030 and to 50 per cent in higher education by 2025.The goal of the 2020 National Education Policy is to bring back to school the 2 crore children who have dropped out of school.

The school curriculum of 10 + 2 will be changed to 5 + 3 + 3 + 4 for students aged 3 to 8 years, 8 to 11 years, 11 to 14 years, and 14-18 years. This includes studying up to 12th class, going to Anganwadi and pre-schooling.NCERT will develop the National Curriculum and Teaching Framework (NCPFECCE) for early childhood care and education for children up to 8 years of age.

The National Policy urges the Ministry of Education to create a national movement for basic literacy and numeracy. State Governments will prepare an action plan to achieve global grassroots literacy and enrollment in all primary schools by Grade-3 by 2025.

Must be a native speaker, local language, regional language, language of instruction for students up to at least 5th gradeThe National Thread Development Policy will be newly developed.Examinations will be conducted for Class 3, Class 5 and Class 8 on behalf of the respective respective boards.

 The general examination system for 10th and 12th class students will continue. However, it has been redesigned with full development in mind.The National Assessment Center, PARAKH (Skills Assessment, Review and Performance Study of Knowledge for holistic development) will be created and transformed into a sustainable organization.

Backward Zones, Establishment of Special Education Zones for Groups and Creation of Gender Funding are mentioned in the National Education Policy.Every state and district will be encouraged to create ‘Bala Bhavan’. ‘Bala Bhavan’ will be set up to engage in craft learning, career learning and sports related activities during the school day. Free school infrastructure can be used as social sedna centers.

The National Council for Teacher Education will be formed by 2022 in consultation with academics and retired teachers at the NCERT, SCERT, all state and regional levels.The State Level Standards Commission for Schools (SSSA) should be created by state governments and union territories. The SCERT should develop the School Quality Assessment and Accreditation Framework (SQAAF) in consultation with all parties involved in education.

The National Education Policy aims to increase the overall enrollment rate in higher education, including vocational education, from 26.3 per cent in 2018 to 50 per cent by 2035 and create 3.50 crore new seats in higher education.

The National Policy offers a wide range of comprehensive undergraduate education, including flexible curricula in higher education, creative combinations of subjects, vocational integration, suspension of study when required and obtaining appropriate certification, easy admission when re-studying.

 

The Bank will be set up as the Academy of Credit to digitally store the marks obtained by students in various higher education. The marks that students receive at various levels will be added at the end of their academic year.Establishment of multidisciplinary education and research universities in the country that offer the best multidisciplinary education of global standards on par with IITs and IIMs.The National Research Institute (MERU) will be set up to foster a research culture and research capacity in higher education.

The Higher Education Authority of India (HECI) will be set up to bring all higher education except medicine and law under one body.Public and private higher education institutions are all governed by the same uniform rules. Accreditation, and the quality of education, are consistent.Over the next 15 years, the colleges will be merged and a hierarchical process will be created to give autonomy to colleges.

A new, comprehensive national curriculum (NCFTE) for teacher education will be developed. The syllabus will be in consultation with NCERT and NCTE.The minimum educational qualification of teachers engaged in teaching in the school by 2030 is the completion of a 4-year integrated B.Ed.Strict action will be taken against non-standard teacher training institutes.

A team of talented retired professors and faculty will be formed to provide professional and long-term training and advice to university or college teachers. This group will be called the National Teaching Committee.The National Scholarship Scheme will be expanded to track the growth of scholarship students.Private higher education institutions will be encouraged to offer more incentives to their students.

Steps will be taken to ensure that distance education is accompanied by the highest quality curricula with online courses and digital repositories, research funding, advanced student services, and credit-based accreditation for distance education (MOOC).In times of epidemics and epidemics, whenever and wherever traditional education is not possible, comprehensive recommendations are to be developed to develop a quality alternative education system and improve online education.

The Central Ministry of Human Resource Development will develop a new body to develop the digital infrastructure, digital content and capabilities required by the school and higher education sector.An autonomous body, the National Federation of Educational Technology (NETF), will be formed. Through this system, it will be a platform for free exchange of ideas on the use of technology to improve learning, evaluation, planning and management.




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New Education Policy 2020: 50 Features to Know

  The National Education Policy was first formulated in 1968. Education was then added to the public list in 1976 under the 42nd Amendment t...