New Education Policy 2020 : Freedom of Education

Introduction

The first education policy in India was started by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968. After this, the next policy was made by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1986, the second education policy, in which the Narasimha Rao government made some changes in 1992, thus currently 34 years old education policy was going on in India. India's new education policy 2020 has been approved by the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 August.

Increase quality education, innovation, research and to make India a superpower in intellectual, new education policy is very necessary for us. The current Education policy is very old which is launched in the year 1986 by Rajiv Gandhi.

Some Important Aspects of Policy

1. In the new education policy 2020, 6% of GDP will be used on education, which is now 4.43%.
2. Now education up to class five will be done in the mother tongue.
3. Ministry of Human Resource Development has been renamed as Ministry of Education.
4. The Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) will be set up as a single body for all higher education except law and medical education. That is, there will be a single regulator for higher education. 3.5 crore new seats will be added in higher education.
5. Vocational courses will be started from Class VI. Students desirous for this will be given internship from 6th class onwards.
6. Music and arts will be promoted by inclusion in the curriculum.
7. A National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) is being created to promote e-curricula for which virtual labs are being developed.
8. The National Research Foundation (NRF) will be established as an apex body on the lines of the NSF (National Science Foundation) of America to promote research and research in the country. The main objective of the establishment of NRF is to promote the culture of research through universities. It will be governed independently by the government, a board of governors and finances large projects.

Foundation Stage

In Foundation Stage, children who are 3 to 8 years will be considered. This stage will be completed in five years in which first three years for pre-school/Aganwari/Kindergarten and after the last two years for class 1st and 2nd. As per the policy in this stage, the main focus is to multilevel play activity and curriculum.

Preparatory Stage

In this stage ages of children will be 8 to 11 years class 3rd to 5th. The main objective will be discovery and classroom learning with multi-level play activities. In this stage too, the emphasis will be on language development and calculation ability.

Middle Stage

In this stage, the main focus will be on the experimental study in class 6th to 8th especially in science mathematics, arts, social science, etc. The theory will not be on final studies but on most of the time for critical thinking.

Secondary Stage

In Secondary Stage class 9th to 12th includes which are now called for secondary and higher secondary. The stage will in two-part first for class 9th and 10th and the second part will be for 11th and 12th. Till now. After the tenth, you had to choose the stream whether you want to go to arts, you want to go into commerce or you want to go to science. Now this stream bound has been abolished. Students can choose any subject in the available structure means a student studying physics can also study music or history.

Graduation Stage

Now we are completing three years for graduation but in the new education policy graduation will be 3 or 4 years. A student who wants their graduation for job purpose will be for three years and the student wants to go in research that will be 4 years and after that post-graduation will be one year and 4 years for Ph.D. In the new education policy courses of m.phil have been removed.

Freedom of Education

Under this education policy, anyone can choose the subject they want. That is, if someone is doing graduation in chemistry and he is interested in music, then he can also study music together. The case of Arts and Science will not be kept separate. However, there will be a provision of major and minor subjects.

The new education policy aims to increase GER (Gross Enrollment Ratio) in higher education including vocational education from 26.3 percent (2018) to 50 percent by 2035. GER is a means of measuring enrollment in higher education. 3.5 crore new seats will be added in higher educational institutions.

Standards of education will be the same for every university across the country. That is Central University or State University, or Deemed University. Everyone's standard will be the same. It will not happen that a different type of education is being done in a university in Bihar and something different is being taught in DU college. And the maximum fees that a private college can also charge, will be fixed for this fee.

These are the main aspects of the new education policy. Now, this seems like the best situation, but we know the condition of our government schools. The government's own figures say that there is a shortage of teachers in almost every state, or at some places, there is not even a school building. To improve this, the government has also announced to increase spending on education. Now 6 percent of GDP will be spent on education, which is now around 4.3 percent.