<p>Ministry of Human Resource Development to be renamed Ministry of Education</p>.<p>Early childhood education will come under the purview of the Ministry of Education</p>.<p>RTE Act to be extended to 3-6-year olds and up to Class 12.</p>.<p>Nutrition and learning are linked. Pre-primary and primary students to be provided both breakfast and midday meal.</p>.<p>Focus on foundational literacy and numeracy in Grades 1-5, with adaptive assessment.</p>.<p>All Grade 1 students to undergo a 3-month school preparation module.</p>.<p>A pupil-teacher ratio under 30:1 to be ensured.</p>.<p>Current 10+2 school system to change to 5+3+3+4 system</p>.<p>Curriculum load to be reduced to key concepts and essential ideas, enabling space for deeper and more experiential learning.</p>.<p>Flexible curriculum, with no hard separation of curricular, co-curricular or extra-curricular areas; nor of arts and sciences, and ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ streams.</p>.<p>Education will be in local language/mother tongue at least till Grade 5 but preferably till Grade 8, with a flexible (bilingual) language approach.</p>.<p>Vocational exposure will begin early with all students taking a year-long survey course on vocational skills and crafts in Grades 6-8.</p>.<p>In Grades 9-12, children will have access to vocational courses along with more traditional academic courses.</p>.<p>National Curriculum Framework to be revised by end-2020. New textbooks to be developed.</p>.<p>All examinations (including Board examinations) to test core concepts and skills, along with higher order capacities.</p>.<p>By 2025, assessment at middle school level and above to be through adaptive computerized testing.</p>.<p>From 2020/2021 onwards, National Testing Agency to administer aptitude tests and tests in various subjects.</p>.<p>Higher Education</p>.<p>The current 800 universities and 40,000 colleges to be consolidated into about 15,000 institutions, with three types – research-focused, teaching focused with some research, and UG teaching focused.</p>.<p>All institutions will be either universities or degree-granting autonomous colleges.</p>.<p>All UG programs to be characterized by a liberal education approach.</p>.<p>10 new Indian Institutes of Liberal Arts/Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities to be set up on the lines of IITs.</p>.<p>Flexible curricular structures to enable creative combinations of disciplines and multiple exit and entry points for students.</p>.<p>UG degree may be of 3 or 4 years duration, with multiple exit stages with appropriate certification; 4-year UG degree with honours route to 1-year Masters or even PhD.</p>.<p>In 2-year Master’s programmes, second year devoted to research; MPhil to be discontinued.</p>.<p>Choice-based Credit System to be revised</p>.<p>A National Higher Education Regulatory Authority to be sole regulator for all higher education</p>.<p>UGC to become Higher Education Grants Council, a purely funding<br />body.</p>.<p>A National Research Foundation to be set up to catalyse research in all areas.</p>.<p>Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or National Education Commission to be formed, headed by the PM -- this will be the custodian of the vision of education in India.</p>
<p>Ministry of Human Resource Development to be renamed Ministry of Education</p>.<p>Early childhood education will come under the purview of the Ministry of Education</p>.<p>RTE Act to be extended to 3-6-year olds and up to Class 12.</p>.<p>Nutrition and learning are linked. Pre-primary and primary students to be provided both breakfast and midday meal.</p>.<p>Focus on foundational literacy and numeracy in Grades 1-5, with adaptive assessment.</p>.<p>All Grade 1 students to undergo a 3-month school preparation module.</p>.<p>A pupil-teacher ratio under 30:1 to be ensured.</p>.<p>Current 10+2 school system to change to 5+3+3+4 system</p>.<p>Curriculum load to be reduced to key concepts and essential ideas, enabling space for deeper and more experiential learning.</p>.<p>Flexible curriculum, with no hard separation of curricular, co-curricular or extra-curricular areas; nor of arts and sciences, and ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ streams.</p>.<p>Education will be in local language/mother tongue at least till Grade 5 but preferably till Grade 8, with a flexible (bilingual) language approach.</p>.<p>Vocational exposure will begin early with all students taking a year-long survey course on vocational skills and crafts in Grades 6-8.</p>.<p>In Grades 9-12, children will have access to vocational courses along with more traditional academic courses.</p>.<p>National Curriculum Framework to be revised by end-2020. New textbooks to be developed.</p>.<p>All examinations (including Board examinations) to test core concepts and skills, along with higher order capacities.</p>.<p>By 2025, assessment at middle school level and above to be through adaptive computerized testing.</p>.<p>From 2020/2021 onwards, National Testing Agency to administer aptitude tests and tests in various subjects.</p>.<p>Higher Education</p>.<p>The current 800 universities and 40,000 colleges to be consolidated into about 15,000 institutions, with three types – research-focused, teaching focused with some research, and UG teaching focused.</p>.<p>All institutions will be either universities or degree-granting autonomous colleges.</p>.<p>All UG programs to be characterized by a liberal education approach.</p>.<p>10 new Indian Institutes of Liberal Arts/Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities to be set up on the lines of IITs.</p>.<p>Flexible curricular structures to enable creative combinations of disciplines and multiple exit and entry points for students.</p>.<p>UG degree may be of 3 or 4 years duration, with multiple exit stages with appropriate certification; 4-year UG degree with honours route to 1-year Masters or even PhD.</p>.<p>In 2-year Master’s programmes, second year devoted to research; MPhil to be discontinued.</p>.<p>Choice-based Credit System to be revised</p>.<p>A National Higher Education Regulatory Authority to be sole regulator for all higher education</p>.<p>UGC to become Higher Education Grants Council, a purely funding<br />body.</p>.<p>A National Research Foundation to be set up to catalyse research in all areas.</p>.<p>Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or National Education Commission to be formed, headed by the PM -- this will be the custodian of the vision of education in India.</p>
