EDUCATION
A TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION POLICY UNVEILED: NEP 2020
EKL Desk
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ndia’s education system has been a topic of discussions in forums after forums for decades. The necessity to remould it to the vastly changed times has been a general consensus in all such meetings. The new National Education Policy (NEP) unveiled by the Ministry of Education on July 30, 2020 seeks to address several long overdue needs of our education system. It includes wide ranging reforms aimed at making the Indian education system more contemporary. It aims to bring in new vistas of opportunities for the Indian youth. The aspirational policy encompasses ideas to revamp education, teaching and assessment systems in schools, colleges as well as teacher’s professional-level training.
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Let us have a glance over the key changes that have been announced under the NEP.
School system: The 10+2 system will be divided into 5+3+3+4 format. The first five years of school will comprise of the foundation stage including three years of pre-primary school as well as classes 1 and 2. The next three years will be divided into a preparatory stage from classes 3 to 5 and following that, three years of middle stage (classes 6 to 8), and four years of secondary stage (classes 9 to 12). Co-curriculum and vocational subjects like sports, arts, commerce, science will be treated at the same level. Students can opt for courses as per their preference. Students will be allowed to take up coding from class 6 onward. Skills, such Executive Knowledge Lines
