REFORMING EDUCATION

Key features of the National Education Policy

SCHOOLING

Board exams to be redesigned and made easier: Students can take board exams on up to two occasions during any given school year -- one main exam and an optional one if the student wishes to improve

Medium of instruction till Class 5 (and preferably till Class 8) should be mother-tongue/local or regional languages

10+2 structure of school curriculum is to be replaced

nnnMinistry of Human Resource Development to be renamed Ministry of Education

Information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar, flanked by HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and HRD secretaries Amit Khare and Anita Karwal, said it was after 34 years that India’s education policy was with a 5+3+3+4 structure: Will formally include 3 years of pre-school studies along with 12 years of school

School examinations to be held for all students in Classes 3, 5 and 8 No rigid separations between arts and sciences, curricular and extra-curricular activities, vocational and academic streams to allow flexibility Curriculum in all subjects to be reduced to core essentials

nnnI wholeheartedly welcome the approval of the National Education Policy 2020! This was a long due and much-awaited reform in the education sector, which will transform millions of lives n the times to come" NARENDRA MODI, PM

being overhauled. Indeed, while the last policy was announced in 1992, it was essentially a rehash of a 1986 one.

The policy, drafted by a committee headed by former Isro chief K Kasturirangan submitted

HIGHER STUDIES Single regulator for all institutes except law and medical colleges

Institutions, including the IITS, to be multi-disciplinary. Multiple exit options and appropriate certifications for under-graduate degrees, which can be3or4yrs

Creation of Academic Bank of Credit to digitally store credits Foreign universities to be encouraged to set up campuses in India

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The new policy brings with it a range of initiatives that touch every aspect of teaching and learning from the pre-school level to higher education includ