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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP). The Ministry of Human Resource Development has been renamed the Ministry of Education
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Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank held a press conference detailing the new education policy, which includes a single common entrance exam for all colleges and the discontinuation of MPhil

Public investment in education will be raised from 4.43% of GDP to 6%.

The government is aiming at a 50% gross enrolment ratio by 2035

Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare said that there will be multiple entry/exit points for those who wish to leave the course in the middle and their credits will be transferred through Academic Bank of Credits

The NEP 2020 will be available in 22 languages

All higher education institutions shall aim to become multidisciplinary institutions by 2040

Even engineering institutions, such as IITs, shall become more holistic and multidisciplinary with more arts and humanities

The new policy also envisions a single regulator for the higher education sector: the Higher Education Council of India (HECI)

There will be a common entrance exam for all HIEs to be held by the National Testing Agency. However, this exam will not be mandatory

Under the new policy, the 10+2 system will be changed to a 5+3+3+4 format. The first five years of schooling will now include three years of pre-primary school and classes 1 and class 2

Schools will also not have any rigid streams for science, arts, commerce, etc., and students can opt for whichever courses they want

Students will be allowed to take up coding from Class VI

The pattern for the board examinations will also be changed. Across states, the exams will test knowledge application and not rote learning. Each subject will test an objective and descriptive exam