Central Cabinet approves new education policy NEP.
Afte the approval of the cabinet of the Central Government proposed by the Government of India, the new education policy has been implemented in the country after 36 years.
NEP is approved
The cabinet has given the green signal to the new education policy (New Education Policy 2023). After 34 years, the education policy has been changed.
Key features of NEP
The notable points of the new education policy are as follows in a simple way:
Five Years Fundamental
- Nursery @ 4 Years
- Jr KG @ 5 Years
- Sr KG @ 6 Years
- Std 1st @ 7 Years
- Std 2nd @ 8 Years
Three Years Preparatory
- Std 3rd @ 9 Years
- Std 4th @10 Years
- Std 5th @11 Years
Three Years Middle
- Std 6th @ 12 Years
- Std 7th @ 13 Years
- Std 8th @ 14 Years
Four Years Secondary
- Std 9th @ 15 Years
- Std SSC @ 16 Years
- Std FYJC @ 17Years
- Std SYJC @ 18 Years
Special things
- Board will be held only in 12th class.
- MPhil will be closed.
- College degree will be of 4 years
- 10th board will be abolished.
- Now students up to 5th will be taught in mother tongue, local language and national language only.
- Rest of the subjects, even if it is English, will be taught as a subject.
- Earlier, it was compulsory to give 10th board exam, which will not be the case now.
- There will be semester exams from 9th to 12th class.
- School education will be taught under 5+3+3+4 formula.
- On the other hand, college degree will be of 3 and 4 years. That is, certificate in the first year of graduation, diploma in the second year, degree in the third year.
- 3 year degree is for those students who do not want to take higher education.
- On the other hand, students doing higher education will have to do 4 year degree.
- Students doing 4 year degree will be able to do MA in one year.
- MA students will now be able to do PhD directly.
- Students will be able to do other courses in between.
By 2035, the gross enrollment ratio in higher education will be 50 percent.
Under the new education policy, if a student wants to do another course in the middle of a course, then he can do the second course by taking a break from the first course for a limited time.
Many reforms have also been made in higher education.
The reforms include graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy etc.
Apart from this, e-courses will be started in regional languages. Virtual labs will be developed.
A National Educational Scientific Forum (NETF) will be started. Let us tell you that there are 45 thousand colleges in the country.
There will be same rules for all government, private, deemed institutions.
To sum up
Under the New Education Policy, 5+3+3+4 pattern will be followed.
In this new policy, there will be school education till 12th. And there will be 3 years of free school education.
Under the new education policy, mother tongue or regional language will be given in education from 1st to 5th in school.
More than 28 languages are to be used in teaching and learning. Which includes Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Meitei (Manipuri), Marathi, Nepali, Maithili, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, English, Bodo, Khasi, Garo, Mizo, French, Hmar, Karbi, Santhali, Bhodi and Purgi languages.
Soon after the policy was released, the government clarified that no one would be forced to study any particular language.
After class VIII, the student will have to learn a foreign language and choose a different stream.
The National Education Policy of India 2020 was launched by the Union Cabinet of India on 29 July.
The new education policy will replace the previous National Education Policy-1986. This policy is a comprehensive framework for elementary education to higher education and vocational training in both rural and urban areas. The aim of this policy is to transform India’s education system by 2030 (NEP 2020).
For more information visit to official website of Ministry of Education
Also read: https://teachonline.co.in/nep-2024-a-part-of-nep-2020-explained/
