Thread by @VikasInExile

New Education Policy

Highlights

Very important #Thread

* Universalization from ECCE to Secondary Education by 2030, aligning with SDG4

Attaining Foundational Learning & Numeracy Skills through National Mission by 2025

100% GER in Pre-School to Secondary Level by 2030

Bring Back 2Cr out of School Children

Teachers to be prepared for assessment reforms by 2023

Inclusive & Equitable Education System by 2030

Board Exams to test core concepts and application of knowledge

Every Child will come out of School adept in at least one Skill

Common Standards of Learning in Public & Private Schools

#MajorReforms: School Education

Board exams will be low stakes & test actual knowledge instead of rote learning

Mother tongue to be a medium of instruction till 5th grade

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

National mission to focus on basic literacy and basic numeracy

Major changes in the 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

New National Curriculum Framework for ECE, School, Teachers and Adult Education

Board Examination will be Low Stakes, Based on Knowledge Application

Medium of Instruction till at least Grade 5, and preferably till Grade 8 and beyond in Home Language/ Mother tongue/ Regional Language

360 degree Holistic Progress Card of Child

Tracking Student Progress for Achieving Learning Outcomes

National assessment center - PARAKH

NTA to offer Common Entrance Exam for Admission TO HEIs

National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST)

Book Promotion Policy and Digital Libraries

Transparent online self disclosure for public oversight and accountability

Universalization of Early Childhood Care Education (ECCE)

National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy

5+3+3+4 Curricular and Pedagogical Structure

Curriculum to integrate 21st Century Skills, Mathematical Thinking and Scientific temper

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

Education of Gifted Children

Gender Inclusion Fund

KGBVs upto Grade 12

Reduction in Curriculum to Core Concepts

Vocational integration from Class 6 onwards

Private Philanthropic Partnership

Fee fixation within Board Regulatory Framework

Public Investment in Education Sector to reach 6% of GDP

Major Reforms: #HigherEducation

50% Gross Enrolment Ration by 2035

Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education- Flexibility of Subjects

Multiple Entry/Exit

UG Programme - 3 or 4 years
PG pgrogramme - 1 or 2 years

Integrated 5 year bachelor's/Master's
M Phil to be discontinued

Credit Transfer and Academic Bank of Credits

HEIs: Research Intensive/ Teaching Intensive Universities and Autonomous Degree Granting College

Model Multidisciplinary Education and Research University (MERU)

The Cabinet has also accepted the puposal of changing name of MHRD to Education Ministry.

The vision of creating an education system that contributes directly to transforming the country, providing high-quality education to all, and making India a global knowledge superpower.

Source
HRD website
TOI