FINAL DRAFT OF NEW EDUCATION POLICY
05, May 2020
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Prelims level : Governance
Mains level : GS-II Government Policies and Interventions for Development in Various Sectors and issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
Why in News?
- The final draft of the New Education Policy (NEP) is said to be silent on student participation in decision-making bodies, committees, and institutional processes of a university or college.
Highlights:
- The final policy draft limits giving students plenty of opportunities to be involved in sports, culture/arts clubs, activity clubs, community service projects.
- It speaks of creating a “systematised arrangement” to support “students from rural backgrounds, including increasing hostel facilities as needed”.
- The provision on setting up “systems and mechanisms” to enable student participation in the institutional processes of higher education institutions is missing from the document shared by the HRD Ministry.
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Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE):
- The final policy document has dropped a proposal to set up a Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog (RSA) as suggested by the Kasturirangan Committee.
- The RSA was to be headed by the Prime Minister and was intended to replace the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE).
- Following objections from the state governments to this proposal the proposal has been scrapped altogether.
- The policy circulated among ministries instead speaks of strengthening CABE and giving it a greater mandate.
- The final draft of the NEP has also dropped the recommendation on setting up a “permanent Indian Education Service (IES) cadre comprising a specialist cadre of the Bureaucracy”.