NEP 2020 Summary on- School Education, Higher Education, Teacher Education:

HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY, NEP 2020

FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION:

1. REGIONAL LANGUAGE MEDIUM SCHOOLS WILL GET BOOST as according to New Policy the mother tongue or local or regional language is to be the medium of instruction in all schools up to Class 5 (preferably till Class 8 and beyond).

2. One of the key announcements of the new National Education Policy, NEP 2020 has been the break-down of the existing 10+2 structure and introduction of the 5+3+3+4 structure of School Education with corresponding to ages 3-8, 8 to 11, 11 to 14, 14 to 18 years respectively.

3. 6th std onwards vocational courses available

4. According to the NEP 2020, school students will take exams only for Classes 3, 5, and 8. Assessment in other years will shift to a "regular and formative" style that will be more "competency-based" to promote learning and development testing "higher-order skills, such as analysis, critical thinking and conceptual clarity".

5. From 8th to 11 students will have liberty to choose and select subjects.

6. Report cards will be a comprehensive report on skills and capabilities instead of just marks and statements

8. New Basic learning program will be created by government for parents to teach children upto 3 years in home and for pre school 3 to 6

9. Vocational education will be integrated into all schools and higher education institutions in a phased manner over the next decade.

10. The NEP 2020 also provides for open learning for classes 3, 5 and 8 through NIOS and State Open Schools, secondary education programs equivalent to Grades 10 and 12, vocational courses, adult literacy and life-enrichment programs.

11. Board exams will be low stake. The focus will be on testing concepts and knowledge application. All students will be allowed to take Board Exams on up to two occasions during any given school year, one main examination and one for improvement, if desired, as per the NEP

FOR COLLEGES AND HIGHER EDUCATION

1. Any Degree will be 4 years ( 3 years graduation will continue).

2. PG pgrogramme - 1 or 2 years

3. All UG/PG will.have Multiple Entry/Exit

4. All graduation course will have major and minor subjects. Example - science student can have Physics as Major and Music as minor also. Any combination he can choose

5. No Rigid Separation between Arts & Sciences, between Curricular and extra-Curricular activities, between Vocational and Academic streams

6. Credit system for graduation for each year student will get some credits which he can utilize if he takes break in course and come back again to complete course. Credit bank facility made available for those who wants to take a break from education

7. All higher education will be governed by only one authority.

8. UGC AICTE will be merged.

9. Same level of Accreditation to any collage , based on its rating collage will get autonomous rights and funds.

10. All University government, private, Open, Deemed, Vocational etc will have same grading and other rules.

11. BVoc degrees introduced in 2013 will continue to exist, but vocational courses will also be available to students enrolled in all other Bachelor’s degree programmes, including the four-year multidisciplinary Bachelor’s programmes. ‘Lok Vidya’, that is, important vocational knowledge developed in India, will be made accessible to students through integration into vocational education courses.

FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHING

1. New Teacher Training board will be setup for all kinds of teachers in country, no state can change

2. The syllabus will be reduced to core knowledge. More focus on student practical and application knowledge..

3. Teachers to be prepared for assessment reforms by 2023.

4. A key highlight of the New Education Policy is establishing a common guiding set of National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST) that will be developed by 2022, by the National Council for Technical Education (NCTE).

5. The policy also lays down that teacher education will be gradually moved into multidisciplinary colleges and universities by 2030. By 2030, the minimum degree qualification for teaching will be a 4-year integrated B.Ed. degree. The 2-year B.Ed. programmes will also be offered only for those who have already obtained Bachelor’s Degrees in other specialized subjects. Adapted 1-year B.Ed. programmes for those who have completed the equivalent of 4-year multidisciplinary Bachelor’s Degrees or who have obtained a Master’s degree in a specialty and wish to become a subject teacher in that specialty.

6. Special shorter local teacher education programmes will also be available at BITEs, DIETs, for eminent local persons who can be hired to teach at schools or school complexes as ‘master instructors’, for the purpose of promoting local professions, knowledge, and skills, e.g., local art, music, agriculture, business, sports, carpentry, and other vocational crafts.

7. A National Mission for Mentoring shall be established, with a large pool of outstanding senior/retired faculty who would be willing to provide short and long-term mentoring/professional support to university/college teachers.

8. The Regulatory System shall be empowered to take stringent action against substandard and dysfunctional teacher education institutions (TEIs) that do not meet basic educational criteria, after giving one year for remedy of the breaches. By 2030, only educationally sound, multidisciplinary, and integrated teacher education programmes shall be in force.

9. Technology in Education: An autonomous body, the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), will be created to provide a platform for the free exchange of ideas on the use of technology to enhance learning, assessment, planning, administration. Appropriate integration of technology into all levels of education will be done to improve classroom processes, support teacher professional development, enhance educational access for disadvantaged groups and streamline educational planning, administration and management

10. 14. A new National Assessment Centre, PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), will be set up as a standard-setting body

11. Digitally Equipping Schools, Teachers and Students

12. e-Content in Regional Language. A dedicated unit for the building of digital infrastructure, digital content and capacity building will be created in the MHRD to look after the e-education needs of both school and higher education.

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