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Pokhriyal meets heads of centrally-funded educational institutions of Gujarat

February 24, 2021 8:49 am

The vision of NEP is to make India a model for the world in the field of education so that our students don’t go behind obtaining degrees from foreign educational institutions. We also need to prepare our students to be future entrepreneurs, who become job-creators instead of job-seekers, said Pokhriyal.

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Students will learn self-reliance at school-level under NEP: Pokhriyal

February 11, 2021 12:50 am

While he praised the academicians for taking on mammoth task of moving online within a couple of months, he also acknowledged that the online-education access has not reached everyone.

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CBSE to offer two-level English exams, 10% more competency-based questions every year

January 19, 2021 12:11 pm

This year, the board has decided to increase the number of competency-bassed questions. The Ministry of Education, in an official notice, informed that the number of competency-based questions for classes 10 and 12 board exams will increase by 10 per cent every year in a phased manner.

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Education Minister recommends setting up task force for NEP implementation

January 14, 2021 3:07 pm

A total of 181 tasks have been identified for implementation in higher education and a dashboard for monitoring the progress of these identified 181 tasks of NEP with clear timelines and targets may be prepared.

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Need to train students, teachers for NEP to succeed: Education Minister

January 08, 2021 10:30 am

He said the NEP touches upon the interdisciplinary studies and integrated course curriculum in higher education for wider learning opportunities, with an aim to provide value-based holistic education, development of scientific temper, and imparting skill training to the youth of India.

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Common entrance exam for all varsities, Higher Education Commission by 2021: Secy

December 12, 2020 9:44 am

The common admission test for entrance to all central universities that is coming in 2021, the Academic Bank of Credit through which one can transfer credits from one university to another, that is also 2021, Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare said

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No homework up to class 2, regularly weighing school bags suggests Education Ministry

December 09, 2020 9:43 am

The policy also talks in detail about homework for students at various levels, starting with no homework for children up to Class 2, and maximum two hours of homework every day for children in Classes 9 to 12.

NEP must tap children’s astonishing linguistic ability as a classroom resource

December 03, 2020 6:43 pm

It is unfortunate that though the draft NEP 2020 talks a lot about “multilingualism”, it does not recognise that children arrive in school not with “a language” but with a complex verbal repertoire that may be simultaneously located in what are construed as several different languages.

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Task force soon to draft roadmap for imparting technical education in mother tongue

December 02, 2020 8:27 pm

The task force will take into consideration the suggestions made by various stakeholders and will submit a report in a month. The minister said that no language will be imposed on any student.

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NEP 2020 upholds reservation policy: Education Minister responds to Yechury

December 02, 2020 9:18 am

The minister said that on the contrary to claims, the NEP gives special emphasis for their educational inclusion. For this, NEP has framed a cluster called 'Socio-economic Deprived Groups' (SEDGs) which will focus on economic and culturally deprived groups including SC, ST, women, PwD etc.