After the implementation of the New Education Policy, many major changes are going to emerge soon in school education. According to the recommendation made by the committee constituted by the central government in the draft, students will have to appear for board exams twice a year. Know – what other new changes are going to happen.
The school education of the country will look completely changed in the coming few years. With the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020, preparations have been made to change the education system. The government had appointed an expert panel on behalf of the central government to prepare the new National Curriculum Framework (NCFFS).
This expert panel has now recommended board exams twice a year. This expert panel was formed by the Ministry of Education as a committee to draft the National Curriculum Framework for School (NCF) Education. Now according to the approval received from the committee, board examinations should be conducted at least twice a year. This will ensure that students have both enough time and opportunities to perform well.
After this students can appear in the board exams in those courses which they have completed. They can choose the course in which they feel prepared. This process can be possible only through the creation of a comprehensive test item bank. This can be used to create tests using suitable software. This will lead to the system of on-demand exams as described in NEP 2020 in the near future.
What is pre draft
The Ministry of Education on Thursday released the “pre-draft” of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education. This draft has been prepared after inviting suggestions from stakeholders such as students, parents, teachers and scholars.
The ministry said in a statement that this is a pre-draft of the NCF-SE, which still requires several rounds of discussion within the National Steering Committee. Feedback from various stakeholders will help the NSC to critically look at the various modalities and approaches that this framework is proposing.
It states that feedback from students, parents, teachers, teacher educators, experts, scholars and professionals is also necessary, as there are diverse needs of students at different stages of school education, multiple pedagogical approaches and teaching-learning materials.
According to ministry officials, the textbooks will be introduced from next year as per the new NCF. The Ministry of Education has prepared four National Curriculum Frameworks (NCFs) based on the 5+3+3+4 ‘Curriculum and Pedagogy’ structure that NEP 2020 has recommended for school education.
What is the 5+3+3+4 format given in the new education policy?
In the new education policy, it has been said to completely abolish the 10+2 format. Now it will be divided from 10+2 to 5+3+3+4 format. This means that now the first five years of school will include three years of pre-primary school and the Foundation Stage including Class 1 and Class 2.
Then the next three years will be divided into the preparation phase for classes 3 to 5. This is followed by three years of the middle stage (Classes 6 to 8) and four years of the secondary stage (Classes 9 to 12). Apart from this, there will be no strict adherence to arts, commerce, science stream in schools, students can now take whatever course they want.
Kasturirangan committee prepared the draft
The ministry had launched the NCF for the Foundational Phase (NCF-FS) for children aged 3-8 years in October 2022. In continuation of that policy, the next NCF for school education is being prepared.
In this, preparations are being made to improve the board exams of class 10 and 12, to move from 10 + 2 structure to 5 + 3 + 3 + 4 structure. Now NCF has been revised four times in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005. The new proposed amendment will be the fifth amendment to the framework. A pre-draft has been prepared by a committee headed by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan.
