Learning is not the product of Teaching… Learning is the product of the activity of the Learners…

 

CADET RACHANA 

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D.A.V. CENTENARY COLLEGE

1 HR NU NCC UNIT, FARIDABAD

The National Education Policy is erected on the foundational pillars of access, quality, affordability and accountability. The policy is for sustainable development and aims to revise and overhaul the education system in our country, including its regulations and governance by making both school and college education more holistic, flexible and multidisciplinary.

The central government, through this policy has more outreach than the old National Education Policy by encompassing students from age of 3 years instead of the previous age of five years.

The important highlights of national education policy are:

SCHOOL EDUCATION

The NEP emphasises on ensuring universal access to school education at all levels i.e. from pre-school to secondary. Further, the earlier structure of “10+2” has been replaced by a “5+3+3+4” curriculum structure corresponding to ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively.

All students will take school examination in grade 3, 5 and 8 which will be conducted by the appropriate authority. Board exams for grades 10^th and 12^th will be conducted but redesigned with holistic development as the central aim. This additional classification of students based on age groups helps not only the government to implement age specific norms for educating the students but also helping the school in developing curriculums and syllabus which implants knowledge more efficiently based on age.

Further, the policy also aims to blur the lines between the current, rigid ‘streams’ concept, in which the students are mandated to opt for either arts, commerce or science. It proposes to give enhance degree of flexibility to students after grade 10^th board by allowing them to choose subject of their choice rather than force streams on them.

The National Education Policy ambitiously proposes to implement a three language formula under this, it is proposed that two out of three languages i.e. mother tongue/local language/ regional language will be asked as the medium of instruction at least till grade 5, but may be extended further till grade 8 and beyond.

HIGHER EDUCATION

There has been consistency shown by National Education Policy by which respect to the continuous reforms related to the higher education sphere in our country. One of the main challenges with higher education in our country is low GER. The policy aims to tackle the same by making education policies much more flexible in favour of the students and providing them with more options to complete their higher education.

The major changes include implementing a four year undergraduate program. This program will be multi-disciplinary in nature and will allow the students with multiple entry and exit points with appropriate certification.

Under the new policy, high performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries, and similarly selected universities e.g. those from among the top 100 universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India.

Jai Hind

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