Today First hour was optional. Ma' am asked us to write notes on Types of approaches. Second hour was Joju sir class. English optional students continued seminar presentation.Today discussed about:
*Absolute grading
*Relative grading
*Grading system
*Internal Assessment
3rd hour was taken by Ancy ma'am. Physical science optional students presented discussion on National Policy Of Education and their Recommendations.
Wonderfully they presented the topic.
It has been a major step for our education sector. The policy that we were following before was the National Policy on Education (NPE) formulated by the Government of India to promote and regulate education in India. The policy covered elementary education to higher education in both rural and urban India. The first NPE was promulgated by the Government of India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968, the second by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986, and the third by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2020.
THE EDUCATION POLICIES
In 1968
The government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced the first National Policy on Education in 1968, which called for a โradical restructuringโ and proposed equal educational opportunities in order to achieve national integration and greater cultural and economic development. The policy called for fulfilling compulsory education for all children up to the age of 14, as stipulated by the Constitution of India and specialized training and qualification of teachers. The policy called for a focus on the learning of regional languages, outlining the โthree-language formulaโ to be implemented in secondary education โ the instruction of the English language, the official language of the state where the school was based, and Hindi. Language education was seen as essential to reduce the gulf between the intelligentsia and the masses. Although the decision to adopt Hindi as the national language had proven controversial, the policy called for the use and learning of Hindi to be encouraged uniformly to promote a common language for all Indians. The policy also encouraged the teaching of the ancient Sanskrit language, which was considered an essential part of Indiaโs culture and heritage. The NPE of 1968 called for education spending to increase to six percent of the national income.
In 1986
The government led by Rajiv Gandhi introduced a new National Policy on Education. The main points of this policy was that, it was called for โspecial emphasis on the removal of disparities and to equalize educational opportunity,โ especially for Indian women, Scheduled Tribes (ST) and the Scheduled Caste (SC) communities; to achieve such social integration, the policy called for expanding scholarships, adult education, recruiting more teachers from the SCs, incentives for poor families to send their children to school regularly, the development of new institutions, and providing housing and services. The NPE called for a โchild-centred approachโ in primary education and launched โOperation Blackboardโ to improve primary schools nationwide; the policy expanded the open university system with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, which had been created in 1985; the policy also called for the creation of the โrural universityโ model, based on the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, to promote economic and social development at the grassroots level in rural India; 1986-education policy expected to spend 6% of GDP on education.
2020
In 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development released a Draft New Education Policy 2019, which was followed by a number of public consultations. The Draft NEP discusses reducing curriculum content to enhance essential learning, critical thinking and more holistic experiential, discussion-based and analysis-based learning. It also talks about a revision of the curriculum and pedagogical structure from a 10+2 system to a 5+3+3+4 system design in an effort to optimize learning for students based on the cognitive development of children.
On 29 July 2020, the cabinet approved a new National Education Policy with an aim to introduce several changes to the existing Indian education system.
RECENT EDUCATION POLICY 2020 BRIEF
Another major step taken in the History of India becoming a global superpower was awaited with the change in the Education Policy. In 2019, Modi Government released a draft which stated about changing the Education Policy. It was approved by the Union Cabinet at a meeting presided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 29th July 2020. The new education system aims at bringing in transformation reforms in the education system of schools and higher education. Replacing the 34-year old education system is another major move in the direction of strengthening India as a global power. The new NEP also includes the renaming of the HRD Ministry back to the Education Ministry. Promoting the spirit of โEk Bharat Shreshtha Bharatโ, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, โAspects such as widening the availability of scholarships, strengthening infrastructure for Open and Distance Learning, Online Education, and increasing the usage of technology have received great attention in the NEP. These are vital reforms for the education sector.โ
Key Points-
~All higher education institutes excluding the medical and law colleges will be governed by a single regulator.
~MPhil courses will now be terminated.
~Board exams will now be more application and knowledge-based.
~Both the public and private higher education institutes will be governed under the same norms.
~To promote and give more emphasis on the regional language/mother-tongue, instruction medium up to class 5 will be in local/home languages.
~All entrance exams for higher education institutes and universities will be held commonly.
~School curriculum to focus more on core concepts.
~Vocational education will also be imparted from 6th grade onwards.
10+2 study cultures discontinue and new structure of 5+3+3+4 will be followed, subjecting to the respective age group of 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years.
These were all the changes in detail that were proposed and introduced in the New Education Policy 2020
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