The much needed reform in Indian education system has finally arrived.
New Education Policy 2020 has got announced. Below are the highlights of it.
1. 10+2 board structure has been dropped.
2. New school structure will be 5+3+3+4.
3. Upto 5 pre school, 6 to 8 Mid School, 8 to 11 High School & 12 onwards Graduation.
4. Any Degree will be of 4 years.
5. 6th std onwards vocational courses will be available.
6. From 8th to 11th, students can choose subjects.
7. All graduation course will have major and minor.
Example - science student can have Physics as Major and Music as minor also. Any combination can be chosen as per likeness.
8. All higher education will be governed by only one authority.
9. UGC AICTE will be merged.
10. All University government, private, Open, Deemed, Vocational etc. will have same grading and other rules.
11. New Teacher Training board will be setup for all kinds of teachers in country & no state can change it.
12. Same level of accreditation to any collage , based on it's rating college will get autonomous rights and funds.
13. New Basic learning program will be created by government for parents to teach children upto 3 years in home and for pre school 3 to 6.
14. Multiple entry and exit from any course.
15. Credit system for graduation for each year student will get some credits which he can utilize if he takes break in course and come back again to complete course.
16. All school's exams will be semester wise twice an year.
17. The syllabus will be reduced to core knowledge of any particular subject only.
18. More focus on student practical and application knowledge, less on theory.
19. For any graduation course if student complete only one year he will get a basic certificate, if he complete two years then he will get diploma certificate and if he complete full course then he will get degree certificate. So no year of any student will get wasted if he/she break the course in between.
20.All the graduation course feed of all universities will be governed by single authority with capping on each course.
21. E-learning course in regional languages.
22. Coding to be taught from class 6th onwards.
23. Now IITs will also teach arts & humanities.
Now we can hope our education system will be at par with other developed countries and future of our children will be bright.
