India announces new Education Policy 2020

 

Below is the broad-base of what India's new education policy covers

 

1. 10+2 board structure is dropped

2. New school structure will be 5+3+3+4

3. Up to 5 Pre-School, 6 to 8 Mid School, 8 to 11 High School, 12 onwards Graduation

4. Any Degree will be 4 years

5. 6th std onwards vocational courses available

6. From 8th to 11 students can choose subjects

7. All graduation course will have major and minor

    Example - science student can have Physics as Major and Music as minor also. Any combination he can choose

8. All higher education will be governed by only one authority.

9. UGC AICTE will be merged.

10. All University government, private, Open, Deemed, Vocational, etc. will have the same grading and other rules.

11. New Teacher Training board will be set up for all kinds of teachers in the country, no state can change

12. The same level of Accreditation to any collage, based on its rating college will get autonomous rights and funds.

13. The new Basic learning program will be created by the government for parents to teach children up to 3 years at home and for preschool 3 to 6

14. Multiple entry and exit from any course

15. Credit system for graduation for each year student will get some credits which he can utilize if he takes break in the course and come back again to complete course

16. All schools exams will be semester wise twice a year

17. The syllabus will be reduced to core knowledge of any subject only

18. More focus on student practical and application knowledge

19. For any graduation course if the student completes only one year he will get a basic certificate, if he completes two years then he will get Diploma certificate and if he completes full course then he will get degree certificate. So no year of any student will ve vested if he breaks the course in between.

20.All the graduation course feeds of all Universities will be govern by single authority with capping on each course.