The new education policy was passed by the Union Cabinet of India with the point of improving the Indian education system. The policy aims to expand the theory and creative part in the children. It has an aim to develop more practical learning and skill development.
The government has acquired a new education policy. The 10+12 structure is going to adopt changes in it. The syllabus was reorganized into five different parts: primary to second level, third to fifth level, sixth to eighth level, and ninth to 12 level. This new education policy aims to place India as an international education hub in the world.
What Is The New Education Policy
Earlier in 1986 the education policy was drafted in an Indian origin and was later modified in 1992. Later on, the government realized and created a new education policy that modernized the education system. In 2020 new education policy came into existence to make India a knowledge superpower.
The newly launched education policy is based on the quality, access, equity, affordability, and accountability pillars and it is designed on the 2020 agenda of reliable development.
This policy mainly aims at the overall development of the students including creativity, sports, science, etc. In this students can select their subjects according to their interests and not blindly follow what they do not like or not having an interest in them.
Objectives
The new education policy 2024 comes with the point to conduct a practical-oriented syllabus, job basic skill development, comprehensive learning, quality education, etc. There are certain more objectives given below:
- Flexible learning
- Grow each child potentially
- Tie up the children to Indian culture
- Design quality education
- Introduce different languages
- Perform excellent research
- Highlight ranking of student performance
- Develop logical thinking and creativity in students
Highlight Of The New Education Policy
There are many changes in the new education policy which is executed in the Indian education system. The changes are given below
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- Children Can Begin Schooling Early: The new system will contain three years of pre-school education and 12 years of fixed education. The 10+2 academics will be replaced by 5+3+3+4 which means from nursery to class there is a foundation stage of 5 years, from the third class to the fifth class there is a preparatory stage, then from sixth to eight there is a middle stage, and from ninth to class twelfth there is a secondary stage. Academic structure highlighting their early childhood care and education.
- Mother Tongue Is The Way Of Instruction: This education policy pays attention to the local languages as learning and teaching methods and does not force them to follow any compulsory languages. It is believed that the mother tongue as an instruction method is better than any other language. The mother tongue, home languages local languages are used until grade 5 or 8. The mother languages as a medium to study cannot be used as previously.
- No Further Art, Science, And Commerce Streams: The education policy aims at no fixed courses or streams like art, science, or commerce to follow further in the academic syllabus. Candidates can select the subjects according to their interests and choices and students will get internship and career training in sixth grade only.
- Achieving Foundational Learning And Numeracy Early: This policy pays attention to observed or experimental learning, issuing students skills of 21st-century skills and minimizing the course content. Career education will be given to the students in 6 to 8 grade with internship opportunities. The new education policy had managed to add the FLN to the primary school syllabus by 2025.
- Standard Development To Open And Distance Learning: The government has taken the initiative of distance and open learning programs because, in an open learning system, the student has the freedom to choose the courses, learning method, and study material according to their interest in this they have to study according to themselves no classroom is required in these type of learning. Distance education is a type of method that delivers education with the help of different tools, technologies, etc. In this the learner is not physically present in the educational institutes but gaining knowledge with the help of online courses, video lectures, etc.
- Scientific Changes In Education: In this the government is enhancing the academic experience and improving the way of teaching, improving the classroom system that can give better education to the children. And this National Educational Technology (NETF) will begin as an independent figure by the government.
- Indian Education Worldwide: New Educational policy aims to encourage worldwide Indian Education. It also encourages global collaboration between different institutes and universities and has also introduced the facility exchange program and supports world top universities to open their campuses in India so that the quality of education given in the foreign can also be taken by Indian students. It helps the student to be prepared on the international level and also helps to upgrade themselves.
