Short speech On New education policy
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Education is the most important national activity, the backbone of a country’s progress. It helps to strengthen the very fabric of nation “to produce men of education enlightenment and character”. The New Education Policy is likely to lead to 100 per cent literacy in the 15-35 age-groups in the wake of the century. The teachers and the taught as well as the various Government agencies are going to be equal partners in this new exercise. The salient features of the New Education Policy 1986 are introduction of a national core curriculum at the school level; special emphasis on the education of women and of the Scheduled Castes/Tribes; introduction of semester system at the secondary stage; examination reforms; establishment of an all-India education service; establishment of pace-setting institutions called `Navodaya Vidyalayas’, in all parts of the country as a part of the effort to provide equal opportunities, especially in rural areas; to raise the quality of higher education; de-linking of jobs from degrees; strengthening of University Grants Commission, the All-India Council of Technical Education, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Indian Medical Council; continuation of the 10 plus 2 plus 3 system of education; splitting of 10 school year:, into elementary system comprising five years, followed by three years of middle school and two years of high school; and provision of vocationalisation after the secondary stage.
A significant feature of the new policy is the setting up of model schools, called `Navodaya Vidyalayas’, for introducing a uniform curriculum in school education. About 5 lakh teachers have been trained by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) during the summer vacations in order to familiarize them with the new concepts involved. Education, which has been made a scapegoat for all social and moral evils in the country, has been put on a sound footing with this new policy. The setting up of Navodaya Vidyalayas’ in almost all the districts of country is a right step in the direction of introducing a uniform educational curriculum. Intended to be pace-setting schools to provide quality education, these schools have been affiliated to the Central Boards of Secondary Education, have a uniform curriculum and implement the three-language formula (Hindi, English and the regional language), thus setting at rest the southern fears that Hindi was being imposed through backdoor on the non-Hindi-speaking areas, at rest. Another objection to these model schools—that these will perpetuate elitism of the public school brand—is baseless as these schools have been located in the rural areas. Each school has a sprawling buildings, hostels for boys and girls, laboratories, workshops, library, games-room, gymnasium hall, and so on.
Our system of education has often been called outdated and unrealistic. Due emphasis has been laid in the new education policy on the vocationalisation of education in order to equip the students to take up the vocation of their choice at the end of their school education. That would definitely curtail the rush to institutions of higher learning by the hordes of students who find themselves at a dead end when they leave school. If this can be achieved, we shall have given practical shape of Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of basic education or `Nai Talim’. The question of de-linking jobs from degrees will only be the next logical step.
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The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), which was approved by the Union Cabinet of India on 29 July 2020, outlines the vision of India's new education system.[1] The new policy replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1986.[a] The policy is a comprehensive framework for elementary education to higher education as well as vocational training in both rural and urban India. The policy aims to transform India's education system by 2030.[2]
Shortly after the release of the policy, the government clarified that no one will be forced to study any particular language and that the medium of instruction will not be shifted from English to any regional language.[3] The language policy in NEP is a broad guideline and advisory in nature; and it is up to the states, institutions, and schools to decide on the implementation.[4] Education in India is a Concurrent List subject.[5]