Niranjan Aaradhya's discourse on New Education Policy organised by Child Rights Collective - Gujarat.
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Just a few lines on NEP 2020, New Education Policy 2020 introduced by the Education Minister on 29 July 2020.
1. Starting this year 2020--2021, in a phased manner all the Catholic educational institutions will be brought under total governmental control within the next 10 years.
2. The words minority and minority rights do not appear anywhere in this Policy.
3. There will be a merger of schools and colleges run by parishes and convents with other schools and colleges in the region which can be government schools or schools run by other communities.
4. All infrastructure in schools run by the Catholic Dioceses all over India like teaching staff, laboratories, playgrounds, libraries, classrooms will have to be shared with students from other schools as directed by the government.
This is known as setting up school complexes and clusters
5. All teachers and headmasters/headmistresses will be appointed by the government after passing in the specified examination conducted by the government.
Priests and sisters cannot be appointed in their own schools by their managements as now.
5.Local language to be compulsory and medium of instruction till class 5. Sanskrit will be made a compulsory language in course of time in classes up-to 5.
6. B.Ed. to be a 4 year degree and the present B.Ed. colleges have either to close down or convert into 4 year programmes.
By 2030 minimum qualification for teaching will be 4 year integrated B. Ed. Degree
7. A Higher Education Commission of India will be set up to oversee the entire higher education system, excluding medical and legal education.
Educational Societies of minority communities will have no place.
8. Government will take charge of education of children from age 3
9. Degree will be of 4 years with multiple entry and exit.
A student can leave after the 1st year and get a Certificate and come back and rejoin the 2nd year later.
He can leave after the 2nd year and get a diploma.
He can leave after 3 years with a Bachelor's Degree.
He can complete 4 years and get a Bachelor's Degree with Research.
M. Phil will be abolished.
10. multidisciplinary - BA students can also take BCom and BSc papers of their choice. So also the BSc and BCom students can exercise the same options and take other papers.
11. Importance of Board exams will be reduced, and they will be conducted twice a year.
12. No mention of fundamental rights in the NEP. It is replaced by fundamental duties.
These are some of the high light which everyone should know.
Thank you.