New Education Policy 2020 is Announced : Highlights

The Indian education needed a revamp and the same has been amply undertaken and we can see the effects in the forthcoming years. The key highlights of the new educations system are as follows:

1. 10+2 board structure is dropped
2. New school structure will be 5+3+3+4
3. Up to 5 preschools, 6 to 8 Mid School, 8 to 11 High School, 12 onwards Graduation
4. Any Degree will be 4 years
5. 6th std onwards vocational courses available
6. From 8th to 11 students can choose subjects
7. All graduation course will have major and minor
Example - Science students can have Physics as Major and Music as minor also. Any combination he can choose
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 the same grading and other rules.
11. New Teacher Training board will be set up for all kinds of teachers in the country, no state can change
12. The same level of Accreditation to any college, based on its rating college will get autonomous rights and funds.
13. The new Basic learning program will be created by the government for parents to teach children up to 3 years at home and for preschool 3 to 6
14. Multiple entries 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 a break in the course and comes back again to complete course
16. All schools exams will be semester wise twice a year
17. The syllabus will be reduced to core knowledge of any subject only
18. More focus on student practical and application knowledge
19. For any graduation course if the student completes only one year he will get a basic certificate, if he completes two years then he will get a Diploma certificate and if he completes a full course then he will get a degree certificate. So no year of any student will ve vested if he breaks the course in between.
20. All the graduation course feed of all Universities will be governed by a single authority with capping on each course.

Now we can hope our education system will be on par with other countries and the future of our children will be bright. We need to make the education system in such a manner that it discourages Rattafication and helps them propel in those careers which makes them learn how to make money as at the end of the day everyone is going to look for a job.

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