India approves New Education Policy 2020; Coding to be taught from class 6
Some other features<p>1. Will set up Gender Inclusion Fund and Special Education Zones to make education more inclusive.<p>2. Every child should have one vocational skill by the time they complete school. Besides, the school system will integrate vocation education and internships from Class six onwards so that students learn new skills. The assessment system will be comprehensive and shall use artificial intelligence to show the learning outcome, the short comings and what corrective measures are required.<p>3. There will be no rigid separation between arts and sciences, curricular and extra-curricular. All subjects like music will be taught.<p>4. School curriculum to be reduced to core concepts and there will integration of vocational education from class<p>5. Students can intern with local crafts and trades for 10 days. For example, a student can work at a local laundry.<p>6. The NEP plans to reduced the importance of Board exams. Board exams to be split into two parts - objective and descriptive. Instead of exams being held every year, school students will sit only for three - at Classes 3, 5 and 8. Assessment in other years will shift to a &quot;regular and formative&quot; style that is more &quot;competency-based, promotes learning and development and tests higher-order skills, such as analysis, critical thinking and conceptual clarity&quot;. Board exams will continue to be held for Classes 10 and 12 but even these will be re-designed with &quot;holistic development&quot; as the aim. Standards for this will be established by a new national assessment centre - PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development).<p>7. Medium of instruction should be mother tongue or regional language till class 5, preferably till class 8. However, the policy also says &quot;no language will be imposed on any student&quot;.<p>8. Report cards will include students&#x27; self-assessment as well as by teachers.