New Education Policy Group

The objective of this Group is to formulate a New Education Policy for the country through an inclusive, participatory and holistic approach. The National Policy on Education was framed in 1986 and modified in 1992. Since then several changes have taken place that calls for a revision of the Policy. The Government of India would like to bring out a National Education Policy to meet the changing dynamics of the population’s requirement with regards to quality education, innovation and research, aiming to make India a knowledge superpower by equipping its students with the necessary skills and knowledge and to eliminate the shortage of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry. For this purpose, 33 themes have been identified for discussions under this Group. The themes are divided separately for the School Education (13 themes) and Higher Education (20 themes) sectors.

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School Education

1. Ensuring Learning Outcomes in Elementary Education
2. Extending outreach of Secondary and Senior Secondary Education
3. Strengthening of Vocational Education
4. Reforming School Examination Systems
5. Revamping Teacher Education for Quality Teachers
6. Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on Women, SCs, STs & Minorities through Adult Education and National Open Schooling Systems
7. Promotion of Information and Communication Technology systems in school and adult education
8. New Knowledge, pedagogies and approaches for teaching of Science, Maths and Technology in School Education to improve learning outcomes of Students
9. School standards, School assessment and School Management systems
10. Enabling Inclusive Education – education of Girls, SCs, STs, Minorities and children with special needs
11. Promotion of Languages
12. Comprehensive Education – Ethics, Physical Education, Arts & Crafts, Life Skills
13. Focus on Child Health

Higher Education

1. Governance reforms for quality
2. Ranking of institutions and accreditations
3. Improving the quality of regulation
4. Pace setting roles of central institutions
5. Improving State public universities
6. Integrating skill development in higher education
7. Promoting Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and online courses
8. Opportunities for technology enabled learning
9. Addressing regional disparity
10. Bridging gender and social gaps
11. Linking higher education to society
12. Developing the best teachers
13. Sustaining student support systems
14. Promote cultural integration through language
15. Meaningful partnership with the private sector
16. Financing higher education
17. Internationalization of higher education
18. Engagement with industry to link education to employability
19. Promoting research and innovation
20. New Knowledge