NEP 2020 In A Glance

March 8, 2024

- Shibu Nair

1.Ensuring Universal Access at all levels of schooling from pre-primary school to Grade 12.

2.Ensuring quality early childhood care and education for all children between 3-6 years

3.New Curricular and Pedagogical Structure (5+3+3+4)

5. Equal opportunity for arts and sciences, curricular and extra-curricular activities,vocational and academic streams.

6. Emphasis on promoting multilingualism and Indian languages.Importance to be given to skill education.

7.Assessments based on holistic development.Holistic Report Cards,Academic Bank of Credits to maintain and transfer credit scores giving academic mobility.

8.Setting up of a new National Assessment Centre, PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development)

9.Transparent and efficient recruitment of teachers and merit based performance analysis.

10.Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education with multiple entry/exit options in higher education.

11.Teacher Education 4-year integrated stage-specific, subject- specific Bachelor of Education.

12.Creation of an autonomous body, the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) to provide a platform for the free exchange of ideas on the use of technology to enhance learning, assessment, planning, administration.