Committee for the Draft National Education Policy
Chairperson- K. Kasturirangan, Former Chairman, ISRO, Bengaluru
Members
1. Vasudha Kamat, Former VC, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai.
2. Manjul Bhargava, R Brandon Fradd, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA.
3. Ram Shankar Kureel, Former Founder VC, Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Science, Madhya Pradesh.
4. T. V. Kattimani, VC, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh.
5. Krishna Mohan Tripathi, Director of Education (Secondary) and Chairperson of Uttar Pradesh High School and Intermediate Examination Board, Uttar Pradesh.
6. Mazhar Asif, Professor, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
7. M. K. Sridhar, Former Member Secretary, Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Secretary
1. Shakila T. Shamsu, Officer on Special Duty (National Education Policy Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, government of India, New Delhi.
2. K. Ramachandran, Advisor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi.
3. Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation & Vice Chancellor, Azim Premzi University, Bengaluru.
4. Leena Chandran Wadia, Observer, Research Foundation, Mumbai.
Vision:
Early childhood education: The policy emphasizes the criticality of te early years and aims to ensure quality early childhood care and education for all children between 3-6 years by 2025 with significantly increased investment and new initiatves.
Foundational literacy and numeracy: There will be special attention paid to early language and mathematics in Grades 1-5. The policy aims to ensure that every student in Grade 5 and beyond must achieve foundational literacy and numeracy by 2025.
Curriculum and Pedagogy: A new developmentally-appropriate curriculum and pedagogical structure for school education based on principles of brain development and learning has been developed based on a 5+3+3+4 design. There will be equal emphasize opn all subjects: Science, Social Science, Art, Languages, Sports, Mathematics with integration of vocational and academic streams in schools.
Universal access: The policy aims to achieve 100% Gross Enrolment Ratio foe all school education by 2030 through various measures.
Equitable and inclusive education: The policy has several concerted initiatives to ensure that no child loses any opportunity to learn and exel because of the circumstances of birth or background. Special education zones will also be set up to focus on this.
Teachers: Teachers will be recruited through robust, transparent processes, promotions will be merit-based, multi-source periodic performance appraisals will happen and progression paths to become educational administrators or teacher educators will bge available.
School Governance: Schools will be organized into school complexes (cluster of 10-20 public schools) - this will be the basic unit of governance and administration that will ensure availability of all resources - infrastructure, academic (e.g. libraries) and people (e.g. art and music teachers) - along with a strong professional teacher community.
Regulation of schools: Regulation and operation of schools will be carried out by separate bodies to eliminate conflicts of interest. there will be clear, separate systems for policy making, reguation, operation and academic matters.
2. Higher Education:
New architecture: A new vision and architecture for higher education has been envisaged with large, well-resourced, vibrant multidisciplinary institutions. the current 800 universities and 40,000 colleges will e consolidated into about 15,000 excellent institutions.
Liberal education: A broad-based liberal arts education at the undergraduate level for integrated, rigorous exposure to science, arts, humanities, mathematics and professional fields will be put in place. This would have imaginative and flexible curricular structures, creative combination of study, integration of vocational education and multiple entry/exit points.
Governance: Institutional governance will be based on autonomy - academic, administrative and financial. Each highereducation institution will be governed by an independent board.
Regulation: Regulation will be 'light but tight' to ensure financial probity and public-spiritedness-standard setting, funding, accreditation, and regulation will be conducted by independent bodies to eliminate conflicts of interest.
3. Teacher Education: Teacher preparation programmes will be rigorous and will take place in vibrant, multidisciplinary higher education institutions. The 4-year integrated stage-specific, subject-specific Bachelor of education offered at multidisciplinary institutions would be the predominant way of becoming a teacher. Substandard and dysfunctional teacher education institutes will be shut down.
4. Professional Education: All professional education will be an integral part of the higher education system. Standalone technical universities, health science universities, legal and agricultural universities, or intitutions in these or other fields will e discontinued.
5. Vocational Education: This will be an integral part of all education - this policy aims to provide access the vocational education to at least 50% of all learners by 2015.
6. National Research Foundation: A new entity will be set up to catalyze and expand research and innovation across the country.
7. Technology in Education: This policy aims at appropriately integrating technology into all levels of education to improve classroom processes, support teacher professional development, enhance educational accessfor disadvantaged groups and streamline educational planning, administration and management.
8. Adult Education: This policy aims to achieve 100% youth and adult literacy by 2030.
9. Promotion of Indian languages: The policy will ensure the preservation, growth and vibrancy of all Indian languages.
10. Financing Education: There will be substantial public investment to expand and vitalize public education.
11. rashtriya Shiksha Aayog: Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or national education Commission will be formed, headed by the Prime Minister - this will be the custodian of the vision of education in India.
MCQs
Q: The major disadvantage of punishment in education is that ___
Answer: It generates unpleasant feeling.
Q: What would you do if you notice that students tend to doze off in your calss?
Answer: Give a command seeking attention.
Q: 'National Policy of Education' 1986 was reviewed by ____
Answer: Ramamurti Committee.
Q: Suppose you get a Hindi Medium student who has learnt English. He is given five sentences to be translated from Hindi to English. As an evaluator, which aspect would you try to evaluate in him?
Answer: Understanding.
Q: the issue of 'academic burden on students' was examined by ___
Answer: Yashpal Committee.
Q: ____ is the apex institution in the area of training educational planners and administrators.
Answer: NIPEA.
Q: ___ is the major cause of difference in the classroom behaviour of boys and girls.
Answer: Societal expectations.
Q: What is the biggest advantage of interaction between the teacher and the students?
Answer: It facilitates effective learning.
Q: ___ cannot be adopted for effective classroom teaching
Answer: Teaching latest trends and advances.
Chairperson- K. Kasturirangan, Former Chairman, ISRO, Bengaluru
Members
1. Vasudha Kamat, Former VC, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai.
2. Manjul Bhargava, R Brandon Fradd, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA.
3. Ram Shankar Kureel, Former Founder VC, Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Science, Madhya Pradesh.
4. T. V. Kattimani, VC, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh.
5. Krishna Mohan Tripathi, Director of Education (Secondary) and Chairperson of Uttar Pradesh High School and Intermediate Examination Board, Uttar Pradesh.
6. Mazhar Asif, Professor, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
7. M. K. Sridhar, Former Member Secretary, Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Secretary
1. Shakila T. Shamsu, Officer on Special Duty (National Education Policy Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, government of India, New Delhi.
2. K. Ramachandran, Advisor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi.
3. Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation & Vice Chancellor, Azim Premzi University, Bengaluru.
4. Leena Chandran Wadia, Observer, Research Foundation, Mumbai.
Vision:
- the National Education Policy 2019 envisions an India-centred education system that contributes directly to transforming our nation sustainably into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society, by providing high quality education to all.
- It proposes expansion of the RTE Act. It aims to cover the three years of preschool before Class I.
- It wants early childhood education to be overseen and regulated by the Ministry of HRD as part of the school system.
- This will be in addition to the private per-schools and Anganwadis that currently cater to the 3 - 6 years age group.
- It suggests anew integrated curricular framework for 3 to 8 year olds with a flexible system based on play, activity and discovery, and beginning exposure to three languages from age 3 onwards.
- The NEP could result in an upheaval in the Anganwadi system which has been overseen by the Ministry of WCD for more than four decades.
Early childhood education: The policy emphasizes the criticality of te early years and aims to ensure quality early childhood care and education for all children between 3-6 years by 2025 with significantly increased investment and new initiatves.
Foundational literacy and numeracy: There will be special attention paid to early language and mathematics in Grades 1-5. The policy aims to ensure that every student in Grade 5 and beyond must achieve foundational literacy and numeracy by 2025.
Curriculum and Pedagogy: A new developmentally-appropriate curriculum and pedagogical structure for school education based on principles of brain development and learning has been developed based on a 5+3+3+4 design. There will be equal emphasize opn all subjects: Science, Social Science, Art, Languages, Sports, Mathematics with integration of vocational and academic streams in schools.
Universal access: The policy aims to achieve 100% Gross Enrolment Ratio foe all school education by 2030 through various measures.
Equitable and inclusive education: The policy has several concerted initiatives to ensure that no child loses any opportunity to learn and exel because of the circumstances of birth or background. Special education zones will also be set up to focus on this.
Teachers: Teachers will be recruited through robust, transparent processes, promotions will be merit-based, multi-source periodic performance appraisals will happen and progression paths to become educational administrators or teacher educators will bge available.
School Governance: Schools will be organized into school complexes (cluster of 10-20 public schools) - this will be the basic unit of governance and administration that will ensure availability of all resources - infrastructure, academic (e.g. libraries) and people (e.g. art and music teachers) - along with a strong professional teacher community.
Regulation of schools: Regulation and operation of schools will be carried out by separate bodies to eliminate conflicts of interest. there will be clear, separate systems for policy making, reguation, operation and academic matters.
2. Higher Education:
New architecture: A new vision and architecture for higher education has been envisaged with large, well-resourced, vibrant multidisciplinary institutions. the current 800 universities and 40,000 colleges will e consolidated into about 15,000 excellent institutions.
Liberal education: A broad-based liberal arts education at the undergraduate level for integrated, rigorous exposure to science, arts, humanities, mathematics and professional fields will be put in place. This would have imaginative and flexible curricular structures, creative combination of study, integration of vocational education and multiple entry/exit points.
Governance: Institutional governance will be based on autonomy - academic, administrative and financial. Each highereducation institution will be governed by an independent board.
Regulation: Regulation will be 'light but tight' to ensure financial probity and public-spiritedness-standard setting, funding, accreditation, and regulation will be conducted by independent bodies to eliminate conflicts of interest.
3. Teacher Education: Teacher preparation programmes will be rigorous and will take place in vibrant, multidisciplinary higher education institutions. The 4-year integrated stage-specific, subject-specific Bachelor of education offered at multidisciplinary institutions would be the predominant way of becoming a teacher. Substandard and dysfunctional teacher education institutes will be shut down.
4. Professional Education: All professional education will be an integral part of the higher education system. Standalone technical universities, health science universities, legal and agricultural universities, or intitutions in these or other fields will e discontinued.
5. Vocational Education: This will be an integral part of all education - this policy aims to provide access the vocational education to at least 50% of all learners by 2015.
6. National Research Foundation: A new entity will be set up to catalyze and expand research and innovation across the country.
7. Technology in Education: This policy aims at appropriately integrating technology into all levels of education to improve classroom processes, support teacher professional development, enhance educational accessfor disadvantaged groups and streamline educational planning, administration and management.
8. Adult Education: This policy aims to achieve 100% youth and adult literacy by 2030.
9. Promotion of Indian languages: The policy will ensure the preservation, growth and vibrancy of all Indian languages.
10. Financing Education: There will be substantial public investment to expand and vitalize public education.
11. rashtriya Shiksha Aayog: Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or national education Commission will be formed, headed by the Prime Minister - this will be the custodian of the vision of education in India.
MCQs
Q: The major disadvantage of punishment in education is that ___
Answer: It generates unpleasant feeling.
Q: What would you do if you notice that students tend to doze off in your calss?
Answer: Give a command seeking attention.
Q: 'National Policy of Education' 1986 was reviewed by ____
Answer: Ramamurti Committee.
Q: Suppose you get a Hindi Medium student who has learnt English. He is given five sentences to be translated from Hindi to English. As an evaluator, which aspect would you try to evaluate in him?
Answer: Understanding.
Q: the issue of 'academic burden on students' was examined by ___
Answer: Yashpal Committee.
Q: ____ is the apex institution in the area of training educational planners and administrators.
Answer: NIPEA.
Q: ___ is the major cause of difference in the classroom behaviour of boys and girls.
Answer: Societal expectations.
Q: What is the biggest advantage of interaction between the teacher and the students?
Answer: It facilitates effective learning.
Q: ___ cannot be adopted for effective classroom teaching
Answer: Teaching latest trends and advances.
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