Our kids have been doing online classes for the last 4 months and we have no idea what the future holds school wise for our little ones. The New Education Policy was announced by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (renamed: Ministry of Education) yesterday and the sweeping changes it has recommended will change the face of education in India. This has come at a time when the uncertainty about our kids educational future has been stressing everyone out.
Did you know that our education policy has been changed after 34 years?
The NEP 2020 aims at making “India a global knowledge superpower”.The new academic session will begin in September-October.
I am proud to share that #NEP2020 will ensure universal access to high-quality Early Childhood Care & #Education across India.
We will focus on developing social capacities, sensitivity, good behaviour, ethics, teamwork & cooperation among children through a joyful pedagogy. pic.twitter.com/obXXbUAjWd
— Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) July 29, 2020
As far as we can see, these are changes that the world and our education system needed desperately and will be welcomed by everyone. We wanted to break it down for you so you can understand how the changes could affect your child at various levels.
- New school structure will be 5+3+3+4 – this curriculum with 12 years of schooling and 3 years of Anganwadi/Pre-schooling
- What this means is – It proposes a new Curricular and Pedagogical Structure, with 5+3+3+4 design covering the children in the age group 3-18 years.
- Under this, Pre-Primary & Grades 1-2 is considered as foundational Stage;
- Grades 3-5 as Preparatory Stage;
- Grades 6-8 as Middle Stage and
- Grades 9-12 as Secondary Stage.
This is an academic restructuring only; there will be no physical restructuring of schools
- Children learn languages, most quickly between 2-8 years, and multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for students. Therefore a three-language formula has been proposed with emphasis that no language would be imposed on anyone.
- There will be no rigid separation between arts, sciences, curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Institutes included the IITs will be multi-disciplinary. Multiple exit options and certifications for under-grad degrees will be available and can be 3 or 4 years. All graduation course will have major and minor. Example – science student can have Physics as Major and Music as minor also. He can choose any combination.
- 6th grade onwards practise based curriculum to be designed and from 8th to 11th-grade students can choose subjects
- All higher education will be governed by only one authority.
- The syllabus will be reduced to core knowledge of any subject only
Official Guidelines- Read the complete document here
What do you think of the new Education Policy 2020? What are the challenges it could pose? Talk to us and tell us what parents are thinking
Vaishnavi Venkatraman
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