The National Education Policy 2020 lays out several key reforms and priorities for the Indian education system. It emphasizes developing students' cognitive, social, ethical and emotional capacities. Some major changes include allowing top foreign universities to set up campuses in India, increasing vocational education, making institutions more multi-disciplinary, focusing on early childhood education and foundational literacy and numeracy, reducing dropout rates, restructuring curriculum around a 5+3+3+4 design and experiential learning, improving teacher training and standards, promoting inclusive and equitable education, making schools more efficient through clustering, and strengthening accreditation and governance standards.

1. Rishabh Rathore
PGDM Student
Jaipuria institute of management, Indore

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1992 2020Education Policy lays particular
emphasis on the development of the
creative potential of each individual. It
is based on the principle that education
must develop not only cognitive
capacities - both the ‘foundational
capacities ’of literacy and numeracy and
‘higher-order’ cognitive capacities, such
as critical thinking and problem solving
– but also social, ethical, and emotional
capacities and dispositions.

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National Education Policy 2020
New Education Policy will bring a
slew of major changes including
allowing top foreign universities
to set up campuses to India, a
greater proportion of students
getting vocational education and
a move towards institutes
including IITs turning multi-
disciplinary.
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1.Early Childhood Care and
Education
• Over 85% of a child’s cumulative brain
development occurs prior to the age of 6,
indicating the critical importance of
appropriate care and stimulation of the brain
in the early years in order to ensure healthy
brain development and growth. Presently,
quality ECCE is not available to crores of young
children, particularly children from socio-
economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Strong investment in ECCE has the potential to
give all young children such access, enabling
them to participate and flourish in the
educational system throughout their lives.

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2.Foundational Literacy
and Numeracy
• Attaining foundational literacy and numeracy
for all children will thus become an urgent
national mission, with immediate measures to
be taken on many fronts and with clear goals
that will be attained in the short term
(including that every student will attain
foundational literacy and numeracy by Grade
3). The highest priority of the education
system will be to achieve universal
foundational literacy and numeracy in primary
school by 2025. The rest of this Policy will
become relevant for our students only if this
most basic learning requirement (i.e., reading,
writing, and arithmetic at the foundational
level).

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3.Curtailing Dropout Rates and
Ensuring Universal Access to
Education at All Levels
• There are two overall initiatives that will
be undertaken to bring children who
have dropped out back to school and to
prevent further children from dropping
out. The first is to provide effective and
sufficient infrastructure so that all
students have access to safe and
engaging school education at all levels
from pre-primary school to Grade 12.
Besides providing regular trained
teachers at each stage, special care shall
be taken to ensure that no school
remains deficient on infrastructure
support

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4.Curriculum and Pedagogy in
Schools
• Restructuring school curriculum and pedagogy
in a new 5+3+3+4 design.
• Holistic development of learners.
• Reduce curriculum content to enhance
essential learning and critical thinking.
• Experiential learning
• Empower students through flexibility in course
choices.
• Multilingualism and the power of language
• Curricular Integration of Essential Subjects,
Skills, and Capacities
• National Curriculum Framework for School
Education (NCFSE)
• Transforming Assessment for Student
Development

10. 5.Teachers
• Recruitment and Deployment
• Service Environment and Culture
• Continuous Professional
Development (CPD)
• Career Management and Progression
(CMP)
• Professional Standards for Teachers
• Special educators
• Approach to Teacher Education
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6. Equitable and Inclusive
Education: Learning for All
Education is the single greatest tool for
achieving social justice and equality.
Inclusive and equitable education - while
indeed an essential goal in its own right - is
also critical to achieving an inclusive and
equitable society in which every citizen has
the opportunity to dream, thrive, and
contribute to the nation. The education
system must aim to benefit India ’s children
so that no child loses any opportunity to
learn and excel because of circumstances of
birth or background.

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7. Efficient Resourcing and Effective
Governance through School
Complexes/Clusters
The isolation of small schools also has a
negative effect on education and the
teaching-learning process. Teachers function
best in communities and teams, and so do
students. Small schools also present a
systemic challenge for governance and
management. The geographical dispersion,
challenging access conditions, and the very
large numbers of schools make it difficult to
reach all schools equally. Administrative
structures have not been aligned with the
increases in the number of school or with
the unified structure of the Samagra
Shiksha Scheme.

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8. Standard-setting and
Accreditation for School
Education
The standard-setting/regulatory framework
and the facilitating systems for school
regulation, accreditation, and governance
shall be reviewed to enable improvements
on the basis of the learnings and
experiences gained in the last decade. This
review will aim to ensure that all students,
particularly students from underprivileged
and disadvantaged sections, shall have
universal, free and compulsory access to
high-quality and equitable schooling from
early childhood care and education (age 3
onwards) through higher secondary
education (i.e., until Grade 12).

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