Indian education system is famously known for its monotonous pedagogy of teaching the youth and considered as a huge producer of unskilled manpower. Enormously Criticized for lacking good communication in English, eventually India has to face the huge crisis of unemployment. Can this change this time around? A controversial start of Draft National Educational Policy 2019 is what it is said to be is an ideology to impose
Hindi as a part of three-language formula.
After many levels of consultations Dr. Kasturiranan led committee has submitted the draft to the Union Human Resource Development Minister – Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
The formula that led to the controversy was the three-language formula suggesting that non-Hindi speaking states would include a regional language, English and Hindi, where as the Hindi speaking states would have English and another modern Language including English. This policy is excepted to meet the changing dynamics of the requirements of the population with regard to providing quality education, innovation and research. Will the policy be successful in eliminating the shortage of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry?
The key takeaways the New Education Policy includes:
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The policy made it compulsory to include Early Childhood Care and Education as an integral part of school education. It proposed an expansion of the Right to Education Act 2009 to include children of ages 3-18.
According to the socio-emotional developmental stage of a child the teaching pedagogy is planned as follows:
3-8 years is the pre-primary from grade 1-2
8-11 years is the preparatory stage from grades 3-5
11-14 years is the middle stage from grade 6-8 and
14-18 is the secondary stage from grade 9-12
The policy is working towards to reduce the content load in the education curriculum and would include the 21st century life skills to increase the capacities of the students.
It made mandatory for the teachers to have the four-year integrated stage-specific B.Ed course.
The Committee to advocate ‘Rashtriya Shiksha Ayog’ to enable all educational initiatives and programmatic interventions to coordinate between the Centre and the states.
To create a strong research culture and building research capacity across higher education formation of an apex body is proposed.
It suggested endorsing National Higher Education Regulatory Authority as the only regulator for all higher education including professional education, creation of accreditation eco-system led by revamped NAAC, professional standard-setting bodies for each area of professional education and UGC to transform to Higher Education Grants Commission.
The committee says education will remain a ‘not for profit’ activity in both private and public institutions.