New Education System In India

New Education Policy 2020 is the first education policy of the 21st century and replaces the thirty-four year old National Policy on Education (NPE).

   

Early Childhood Care Education

      New education policy 2020 emphasises on the criticality of the early years to ensure quality early childhood care and education for all children between 3-6 years by 2025. The children in the ages of 3-5 will be catered to by the current system of anganwadis and pre-schools, and age 5-6 will be included with the schooling system in a seamless integrated manner.

New Curricular and Pedagogical Structure

  New policy generated emphasis on Early Childhood Care and Education, the 10+2 structure of school curricula is to be replaced by a 5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years respectively new system will have 12 years of schooling with three years of Anganwadi/ pre schooling.

The new system will cover four stages:

##  Primary Stage (in two parts, that is, 3 years of Anganwadi/pre-school + 2 years in primary school in Grades 1-2; both together covering ages 3-8),

##Preparatory Stage (Grades 3-5, covering ages 8-11)

## Middle Stage (Grades 6-8, covering ages 11-14)

 ## Secondary Stage (Grades 9-12 in two phases, i.e., 9 and 10 in the first and 11 and 12 in the second, covering ages 14-18).).