NEP places Telangana government in a bind

Hyderabad: Telangana Government is still unclear on numerous facets of the National Education Policy -2020 and also therefore it is tight-lipped on its application.

Speaking to The Hans India, an elderly authorities in the State Education Department stated, “Telangana did participate in two rounds of NEP-2020 meetings at the national level, and stakeholders’ meetings were also organized by the universities, colleges with faculty and others but the Covid pandemic had put the NEP-2020 on the backburner.”

According to authorities, the fundamental modification generated by the NEP-2020 was a change from the existing 10 +2 +3 system to 5 +3 +3 +4. The pre-NEP-2020 is of 10 +2 system of 14 years of education. Now, NEP-2020 recommends an age-wise and also class-wise failure of the 5 +3 +3 +4 curricular and also instructional framework, based upon the cognitive-developmental phases of the kids.

Accordingly, there will certainly be 5 years of the structure phase, 3 years of the primary phase, 3 years of the center phase and also 4 years of the second phase. Hardly, there is any type of disagreement in between the Centre and also the States on the age-appropriate education and learning proposition.

However, the problem is that carrying out the NEP-2020 would certainly bring both the SSC (Class X) and also Intermediate (Classes XI and also XII) under one umbrella. Does this demand the combining of Boards of SSC and also Intermediate? There is no quality on this problem. States like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and also Tamil Nadu have 2 boards, carrying out Class X and also an additional for Class XI and also XII.

Some states like Rajasthan have a Board of Secondary Education that carries out both second and also elderly second exams, stated an authorities that took part in the NEP-2020 nationwide degree conference.

Another problem in Telangana is the fundamental phase of 5 years from age 3 to 8 drops under the group of Anganwadi, pre-school or Balavatika under NEP-2020.

The Department of Women Development and also Child Welfare has actually been carrying out the Pre-School Education (PSE) as component of the across the country Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).

Under the system, the Centre had actually currently informed application of nationwide plan on Early Childhood Care and also Education (ECCE), transforming Anganwadi Centres as Vibrant- child-friendly ‘Early Child Development Centres’ (Vibrant ECDs).

Following this, the State government has actually made it necessary to run pre-school from 9 am to 4 pm. For this, it has actually likewise raised the gratuity of the personnel. Children are shown excellent behaviors, discussion, activity tunes, tales, video games, innovative tasks, clinical tasks and also college preparedness tasks in the preschool at theAnganwadis

Similar holds true with college after the second phase. Several state colleges, exclusive colleges and also nationwide colleges have actually been carrying out numerous elements of the NEP-2020. This consists of on-line education and learning in Open and also Distance Learning (ODL) setting, Swayam programs to gain credit rating by taking on-line programs in each term, Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), incorporated 5-year programs (dual level system).

However, there are numerous spaces associating with the architectural adjustments and also financing patterns where a lot more quality is required, authorities include.