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Salient Features of NEP, 2020

Salient Features of NEP, 2020

The National Education Policy 2020 was unveiled on July 29, 2020. The National Education Policy 2020 makes a number of changes to both higher education and secondary education, including technical education. The National Education Policy 2020 lists a number of action items/activities that should be implemented in both higher education and schooling.

The following are specifics of NEP 2020’s key features:

• Ensuring universal access at all educational levels, from preschool to grade 12;

• Ensuring that all children between the ages of 0 and 3 receive high-quality early care and education;

• New Pedagogical and Curricular Framework (5+3+3+4);

• There are no clear distinctions between the humanities and sciences, academic and extracurricular pursuits, or career paths;

• Launching a national initiative on basic literacy and numeracy;

• Promoting multilingualism and Indian languages as a priority; The home language, mother tongue, local language, or regional language will be used as the primary medium of teaching until at least Grade 5, but ideally until Grade 8 and beyond.

• Assessment reforms, including up to two Board Exams per school year, one for the main exam and one for improvement, if requested;

• The establishment of the PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) National Assessment Center;

• Educational equity and inclusion, with a focus on Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDGs);

• Special Education Zones and a specific gender inclusion fund for underprivileged areas and groups;

• Effective and open procedures for hiring teachers and performance evaluations based on merit;

• Ensuring that all resources are accessible via school complexes and clusters;

•State School Standards Authority (SSSA) establishment 

• Promotion of vocational education throughout the K–12 and tertiary systems of instruction;

• raising GER to 50% in higher education;

• Multidisciplinary, all-encompassing education with numerous points of access and departure;

• NTA will conduct a Common Entrance Exam for HEI Admission;

• The founding of an academic bank of credit

•Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities (MERUs) establishment ;

•The National Research Foundation (NRF) was established.

•”Light yet Tight” regulation 

• The Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), a single overarching umbrella organisation, with independent bodies for standard setting (the General Education Council), funding (the Higher Education Grants Council), accreditation (the National Accreditation Council [NAC]), and regulation (the National Higher Education Regulatory Council [NHERC]), is responsible for promoting the higher education sector, including teacher education but excluding medical and legal education;

• Growing open and distant education to boost the gross enrollment ratio (GER).

• Globalization in Education

• The higher education system will include professional education as a core component. The goal of institutions in these and other sectors, including independent technical universities, law schools, medical schools, and agricultural colleges, is to become multidisciplinary institutions.

• 4-year integrated stage- and subject-specific teacher education degree in education

• Creating a National Mentoring Mission.

•The establishment of the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), an independent organisation that would serve as a forum for the unrestricted discussion of ways to use technology to improve instruction, evaluation, planning, and administration.

•The appropriate use of technology in all educational levels.

•Objectives Reaching 100% adult and juvenile literacy.

• The commercialization of higher education will be fought and stopped by a number of methods with checks and balances.

• As a “not for profit” company, all educational institutions will be held to the same standards of audit and disclosure.

• The Center and the States will collaborate to boost public spending on education so that it reaches 6% of GDP as soon as possible.

• The Central Advisory Board of Education should be strengthened to maintain coordination and to put more of an emphasis on quality education overall.

By 2030, the NEP, 2020 aims to raise the GER in preschool through secondary education to 100%, while it will rise from 26.3% in 2018 to 50% in higher education, including vocational education.

What is new National Education Policy and the changes in the education system of India

 What is new National Education Policy ( NEP) 2022?

The National Education Policy ( NEP ) 2022 is a policy document released by the government of India on 29th July 2020.
As education is important sector for the country’s  development, Government must be focus on education sector of the country. Due to the importance of education, government make many changes to improve this sector and for providing better education to the people of India.
It generally focuses on the students individual needs. It aims to provide them with access to world class education. It also make sure that the students don’t have must stress regarding to their studies as we all know that day by day students get depressed because of not clearing their exams so government also put their efforts to make the education system more flexible and adaptive.
The new national policy lays down objectives for improving the quality of the education system. The policy aims at creating a ” Global Knowledge Superpower” in the field of education. The policy also makes it mandatory for schools and colleges to make their curriculum flexible and holistic.

It changes many things in the education system of India as this initiative is taken by looking the perspective of students, teachers , parents , education experts , and civil society organizations.

New Education Policy ( NEP ) important points .

The New Education Policy aims to give quality education to all the people of India whether they belong to the lower caste or upper caste. Government make education affordable to all the students.
Some are the important points of New Education Policy – 
1. The policy aims to provide quality and adaptive education to all the children in the age between 3- 18 years .
2. Students can choose different subjects while studying in college and inhance their skills .
3. Students will now be checked on their ability to apply concept to solving real problems and giving better decisions rather than on how well they remember things from books. 
4. Now student will focus on studying 3 language in the school premises 1. Regional 2. Hindi 3. English.
5. To make it easier for students to learn regional languages, instruction in the first five grades will be taught in those languages instead of English.
6. Policy focuses on using different technologies to make study more accessible as now everything you will get online without a doubt.
7. Now education is given in same quality whether the students belong to urban area or rural area they will get the same quality of  education.
8. The policy propose several measures to improve the quality of teaching, such as mandatory teacher eligibility tests, teacher professional development programmes , and teacher education programmes at the elementary, secondary and tertiary levels.
9. This policy introduce a new 5+3+3+4 education structure, which moves away from the current 10+2 system.
10. It aims to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio in higher education to 50 percentage by 2035.
11. The Government has announced that all higher education institutes will be governed by a single regulator, except the Medical and Law colleges .
12. The policy proposes to set up a National Higher Education Regulatory Council to oversee the regulation of higher education institutions.