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Union Cabinet approved #NationalEducationPolicy2020, paving way for transformational reforms in school and higher education sector in the country

DETAILS: ddnews.gov.in/national/cabin…

Key points:

1. New Policy aims for Universalization of Education from pre-school to secondary level with 100 % GER in school education by 2030; GER in higher education to be raised to 50 % by 2035 #NationalEducationPolicy2020 #NewEducationPolicy

2. NEP 2020 will bring back 2 crore out of school children into the main stream and add 3.5 crore new seats in higher education #NationalEducationPolicy2020

3. New 5+3+3+4 school curriculum with 12 years of schooling and 3 years of Anganwadi/ pre-schooling #NationalEducationPolicy2020

4. Emphasis on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, no hard separation between academic streams, extracurricular, vocational streams in school #NationalEducationPolicy2020

5. Assessment reforms with 360 degree Holistic Progress Card, tracking Student Progress for achieving Learning Outcomes #NationalEducationPolicy2020

6. Higher Education curriculum to have Flexibility of Subjects #NationalEducationPolicy2020

7. Multiple Entry / Exit, and transfer of credit through an Academic Bank of Credits #NationalEducationPolicy2020

8. Affiliation System to be phased out in 15 years with graded autonomy to colleges #NationalEducationPolicy2020

9. Light but Tight Regulation of Higher education, single regulator #NationalEducationPolicy2020

10. National Research Foundation to be established to foster a strong research culture #NationalEducationPolicy2020

11. Increased use of technology with equity; National Educational Technology Forum to be created #NationalEducationPolicy2020

12. New Policy promotes Multilingualism in both schools and HEs; Teaching upto at least Grade 5 to be in mother tongue/ regional language ; National Institute for Pali, Persian and Prakrit, Indian Institute of Translation and Interpretation to be set up #NewEducationPolicy

13. NEP 2020 emphasizes setting up of Gender Inclusion Fund, Special Education Zones for disadvantaged regions and groups #NewEducationPolicy #NationalEducationPolicy2020