Cabinet approved National Education Policy 2020; Major reforms in higher education include target of 50% gross enrollment ration by 2035 and provision for multiple entry/exit.
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Other features include graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy of institutions and single regulator for all higher education working under a self-disclosure based transparent system for approvals in place of numerous 'inspections'.
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e-courses will be developed in regional languages; virtual labs will be developed and a National Educational Technology Forum(NETF) is being created.
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National mission to focus on basic literacy & basic numeracy; major changes in pedagogical structure of curriculum with no rigid separation between streams; all separations between vocational and academic and curricular and extra-curricular will also be removed.
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Board exams will be low stakes and test actual knowledge instead of rote learning; Mother tongue to be medium of instruction till 5th grade; report cards will be a comprehensive report on skills and capabilities instead of just marks and statements .
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Here are the broad outcomes expected from National Education Policy 2020.
