The year 2020 has witnessed a lot many changes whether it’s financial, hospitality, or education, each sector has gone through a lot of reforms and transformations ensuring that the future is bright for India. Speaking of the bright future, how can we forget our education system? For all those who haven’t yet heard of the amendments in the NPE or National Policy on Education (2020 edition) then here is some eye-opening information for you. Replacing the 34 Y/O NEP (1986).
Apart from the education department of Rajasthan, the private schools and the best school listing sites are inclined towards the importance of the new NEP (2020).
Stages Of The New Educational System
-> Foundational Stage – Anganwadi/pre-school – upto 3Y/O + 2 years in primary 1st – 2nd grades – age group 3-8 years.
-> Preparatory Stage – 3rd -5th grades – age group 8-11 years.
-> Middle Stage – 6th -8th grades – age group 11-14 years.
-> Secondary Stage – 9th – 12th grades – 2 phases – first 9 and 10, second 11 and 12. Covering age group 14-18 years.
The current system gives flexibility to the students to choose between their choice of streams and subjects. Moreover, there will be no rigid separations between arts, commerce, and science regarding extracurricular activities, language, and vocational training. The major aim behind promoting equivalent training is to demolish the gap that comes up in streams regarding social sciences, art, language, and mathematics.
Areas To Notice
=> Kids Care And Education – NEP (2020) considers kid’s care and early education as its priority, looking 3 – 6 years as a crucial learning phase. Age groups 3-5 will be catered by pre-primary or anganwadis and 5-6 ages will get integrated primary education designed in par with modern reforms.
=> Some Language Reforms – The mode of teaching till grade 5th (preferably till grade 8th) will be mostly in the mother tongue/local or regional language. Sanskrit will be offered at all levels of education – secondary or higher education.
Other languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Pali, Persian, etc will be an option for students.
Indian Sign Language will be standardized all across the country for children with hearing impairment.
=> Examination Reforms – Boards will commence for class 10th and 12th students but will be reformed to eliminate the need for extra coaching classes. The students can enroll for boards in the given school year, or for improvement (if needed). Schools shall take examinations from 3rd grade onwards.
PARAKH – Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development – the said organization will be formed by the government to set up the guidelines, norms, and standards for examinations (all recognized boards in India).
Every state and district needs to have “Bal Bhawans” as special daytime boarding schools teaching art, career and play-related activities.
=> Vocational Training – India aims at achieving the benchmark with 50% of the learners being exposed to vocational training by 2025. Vocational exposure will be given at early and secondary learning years and the intensity will increase in higher education.
=> Educational Tech-Stack – There is an all-new set of policy recommendations promoting online and digital education. As we have learned that epidemics and pandemics need a special kit to get unhindered remote education.
National Education Policy in 2020 incorporates a lot of amendments in the favor of students giving them a strong base to study and achieve success. The current education aims at achieving more than 100% of youth and adult literacy by 2030 for which the steps have already been taken.
