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18. As per National Education Policy 2020, the 10+2 structure in school education will be modified with a new pedagogical and curricular restructuring of 5+3+3+4 covering ages 3-18. The foundational stage will cover ages 3-8, while the preparatory stage will include Classes 3 to 5. The middle stage will cover Classes 6-8 and secondary stage includes Classes 9 to 12. In detail, The 5+3+3+4, will consist of 12 years of school and three of Anganwadi or pre-school. This will be split as follows: a foundational stage (ages three and eight), three years of pre-primary (ages eight to 11), a preparatory stage (ages 11 to 14) and a secondary stage (ages 14 to 18). According to the government the revised structure will "bring hitherto uncovered age group of three to six years, recognised globally as crucial stage for development of mental faculties, under school curriculum".

Preparatory Stage (Grades 3-5, covering ages 8-11) will see introduction of experiential learning across the sciences, mathematics, arts, social sciences, and humanities.

The Middle stage covering Grades 6-8, (ages 11-14) will have a subject-oriented pedagogical and curricular style.

And the Secondary stage (Grades 9-12 in two phases, i.e., 9 and 10 in the first, and 11 and 12 in the second, covering ages 14-18) will have greater depth, greater critical thinking, greater attention to life aspirations, and greater flexibility and student choice of subjects, and option to exit at grade 10 and re-enter at a later stage in grade 11

Each of the four stages of school education, may consider moving towards a semester or any other system that allows the inclusion of shorter modules.

19. Mathematics and computational thinking to be given increased emphasis throughout school years. Activities involving coding to be introduced in Middle stage.

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24. Stand-alone agricultural universities, legal universities, health science universities, technical universities, and stand-alone institutions in other fields, shall aim to become multidisciplinary institutions offering holistic and multidisciplinary education.

25. All institutions offering either professional or general education will aim to organically evolve into institutions/clusters offering both seamlessly, and in an integrated manner by 2030.

26. Both capacity and quality of agriculture and allied disciplines must be improved in order to increase agricultural productivity through better skilled graduates and technicians, innovative research, and market-based extension linked to technologies and practices.

27. Institutions offering agricultural education must benefit the local community directly; one approach could be to set up Agricultural Technology Parks to promote technology incubation and dissemination and promote sustainable methodologies.

28. Legal education needs to be competitive globally, adopting best practices and embracing new technologies for wider access to and timely delivery of justice.

29. Healthcare education needs to be re-envisioned so that the duration, structure, and design of the educational programmes need to match the role requirements that graduates will play. There shall also be a much greater emphasis on preventive healthcare and community medicine in all forms of healthcare education.

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30. Technical education will also aim to be offered within multidisciplinary education institutions and programmes and have a renewed focus on opportunities to engage deeply with other disciplines.

India must also take the lead in preparing professionals in cutting-edge areas that are fast gaining prominence, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3-D machining, big data analysis, and machine learning, in addition to genomic studies, biotechnology, nanotechnology, neuroscience, with important applications to health, environment, and sustainable living that will be woven into undergraduate education for enhancing employability of the youth.

31. The new policy seeks to expand access to higher education for 50% of high school students by 2035, and achieve universal adult literacy before that date.

32. Govt is targetting 100% gross enrollment ratio from pre-school to secondary level by 2030.

Some other sources: https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/new-education-polic...

https://twitter.com/DrRPNishank - Human Resource Development Minister. His department would be renamed to Education Deparatment under the new policy.

https://twitter.com/narendramodi - Prime Minister. This new policy was one of the election promises.

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20. All education institutions will be held to similar standards of audit and disclosure as a ‘not for profit’ entity. Surpluses, if any, will be reinvested in the educational sector, according to the NEP 2020.

21. There will be transparent public disclosure of all these financial matters with recourse to grievance-handling mechanisms to the general public. The accreditation system developed by a National Accreditation Council will provide a complementary check on this system, and a National Higher Education Regulatory Council (NHERC) will consider this as one of the key dimensions of its regulatory objective.

22. All fees and charges set by private HEIs will be transparently and fully disclosed, and there shall be no arbitrary increases in these fees during the period of enrolment of any student. This fee determining mechanism will ensure reasonable recovery of cost while ensuring that HEIs discharge their social obligations.

23. Through a suitable system of graded accreditation and graded autonomy, and in a phased manner over a period of 15 years, all HEIs in India will aim to become independent self-governing institutions pursuing innovation and excellence. Upon receiving the appropriate graded accreditations that deem the institution ready for such a move, a Board of Governors (BoG) shall be established. Equity considerations will also be taken care of while selecting the members, according to the policy. The BoG of an institution will be empowered to govern the institution free of any external interference. It is envisaged that all HEIs will be incentivized, supported, and mentored during this process, and shall aim to become autonomous and have such an empowered BoG by 2035.