Amit Khare the Secretary of MHRD announced the higher education reforms that are to be implemented from the coming year under the new National Education Policy. Under the scheme, there will be a multiple entry and exit scheme to ensure that students efforts are not wasted in case they are forced to drop out for some reason.
This means that the student will be receiving a certificate in diploma for completing 1 or 2 years of the degree course. This also means that students will be allowed to take a sabbatical from their course in the form of an academic credit bank system, and can go for a Ph.D after completing one additional year after their four-year degree.
In addition to this, a multidisciplinary education system is to be introduced wherein they will be able to study minor subjects like music along with their major.
- Some key points in the new Education Policy are as follows:
- MPhil courses will be discontinued under the new policy and all the courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD level will now be interdisciplinary
- All higher education institutions, except legal and medical colleges, will be governed by a single regulator
- Board exams in schools will be low stakes and test actual knowledge of students instead of “rote learning”
- Home language, mother tongue or regional language will be the medium of instruction up to Class 5
- School curriculum will also be reduced to core concepts and there will be an integration of vocational education from Class 6
(Source: TOI)