Changing dimensions in the New education Policy 2020

Once a kid saw a washerman beating a donkey. He asked his father the reason behind it. Father replied that the donkey must have failed in carrying luggage throughout the day. Hearing this, the boy replied in exclamation, “Thank god he isn’t taking it to school”.

It is clearly understood how much a child hates in going to school at that young age. It was one of the major reasons that lead to the implementing of the New Education Policy in such a way so that any kid won’t hate school. Despite the changing system of education among children, the government has also planned for the training of teachers for 4 years regarding how well a child will learn his course and teachers will be mandated to complete that four years training.

It will be beneficial for the students as the one who is going to guide and teach them will be trained according to the choice of the child. It has been found that various teachers have tremendous knowledge but the way of teaching is not up to the mark of how the child would understand so much training will be helpful.

The current system of (10+2) will be replaced by the (5+3+3+4) curriculum. The basic term will now be the foundation stage of 5 years. In this, there will be three years of Play School for the children to do the same activities of playing as they play at home. The next 2 years will be considered as class 1 and class 2 where they will learn to read and write and there won’t be any exams for these children and each and everyone will be passed to class 3rd standard.

The next term of three years will be termed as a preparation stage for the students of class 3rd to class fifth. In this children’s are to get focus on extra activities as well as study. Also, this will be the duration when the students will start giving exams. One key point that has been kept in this stage is that the medium of language should be the mother language of the desired state. This is done because children understand things more easily in the tongue in which they are in the habit of speaking.

In this middle stage of class VI up to VIII, subjects such as math, science, arts are taught, and also the knowledge about computer code would be made available in these three years. One more new change in this stage is the inclusion of vocational subjects. We have seen that students are not made to study or learn the work of gardeners, carpenter, etc thinking these subjects as non-mandatory. These subjects are introduced because at this stage of time children are not aware of what will be their interest/profession in the future.

The 4th Stage and the final stage of school education will be termed as the second stage and it will compose the study of class 9th to 12th standard. The change in this term is that now it’s not mandatory to choose subjects only from a particular stream. In this education policy, it will be upon the students’ choice to take the subject from any stream that he/ she wants.

Also, these four years will be considered as the eight semesters and there will be an examination for each semester. It has been earlier observed that usually, students start studying at the end of the year during the time of examination but now after the inclusion of the semester, after every six months the students will be more focused than previously. Also, the way of teaching will be different it will be a critical thinking mode.

The majority of students are in the habit of just learning and mugging up things but through critical thinking now they will be able to understand the topic deeply and various other questions related to the topic would rise.

After the removal of mandatory subjects of a particular stream in the secondary stage, it has been continued in the graduation period also. Streams of graduation presently termed as Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Technology, etc would be removed after the new education policy 2020. The graduation will be of four years where after each year, a different tag is given such as certificate, diploma, degree, and Research at respective years. The key point here is, now the student will have a chance to complete their graduation anytime in the future if they miss their studies due to any problem.

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The effect of the new policy is also seen in post-graduation courses. If a student pursues three years of graduation, he is mandated to do post-graduation of 2 years and if a student pursues 4 years of graduation, he needs to do only one year of post-graduation. This is a breakthrough and also it will help students in saving their time and money.

The old system of education will be changed as the new policy also allows foreign universities to open their branches in India. Indian Institutes and Universities will get the best competitor in the world as the top 50 foreign universities will be allowed to open their branches. It was very difficult for the students to pursue courses going abroad and this face will now be changed as those branches will open here.

There are some negative points about the policy. The importance of the English language is not given much as regional language is made mandatory and the secondary stage mandates any foreign language. It was observed that Indians get jobs in foreign countries easily as the majority of the Indians at least communicate in English. The other negative point is that the entire system will be centrally controlled such as deciding on the syllabus, teacher’s training, and regulation of school fees.

These things will be controlled by the center. India is Federal in the structure that is states and centers both do their part in each sector but now in the education field, the states don’t have much regulation part.

The positive expects of this policy are too much. It has been mentioned that 6% of GDP will be for the education system which will be a huge investment for the development of the sector. It was never given in the hand of students to give marks to them for self-analysis which would be changed in this system as now the result will be prepared on the marks given by the teacher, self and also your known friend.

Seeing the burden of parents, a drastic change has been introduced concerning the fees of private schools. The government will include private schools in different categories and each category will be given a benchmark of the fees they can take according to their category. Excess misuse was done by the private school owners on the family of students which will be reduced to a huge extent.

In a country like India, it won’t be easy to drastically change the system, but such changes are required to see the development of students. Changes such as removal of particular streams, the inclusion of vocational subjects, removal of exams for kids, and various other factors are seen appreciated by the citizens and people are eagerly waiting for the policy to be implemented.