NEW EDUCATIONAL POLICY 2020. AT LAST!
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X On Wednesday, 29th July, 2020, the Union Cabinet cleared a new National Educational Policy (NEP) proposing massive changes in school and higher education levels. Some key takeaways are :- The 10 + 2 board structure is dropped and the new school structure will be 5+3+3+4. Upto 5, pre school, 6 to 8 middle school, 8 to 11 high school & 12 onwards graduation. Every child to learn at least one vocation and exposed to several more. This will be introduced during grades 6-8. A 10- day bagless period sometime during Grades 6-8 to intern with local vocational experts. Students will be given increased flexibility and choices of subjects to study, particularly in secondary school. There will be no hard separation among ' curricular' , ' extracurricular' , or ' co-curricular' , among 'arts' , ' humanities' , and ' sciences