Thread: Policies and Legislatives for Restructuring Education system in India unveiled !

New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a slew of legislative, policy and administrative initiatives for the education sector during the first 100 days of the government. Some of the major moves are as follows:

Legal

* To enact the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education bill.

* Evolve consensus to set up an All India Madrassa Board.

* An autonomous overarching regulatory and assessment authority for higher education. It would subsume the University Grants Commission, the All India Council of Technical Education and the Medical Council of India.

* A law to prevent, prohibit and punish malpractices in education sector.

* A law to regulate entry and operation of foreign educational providers.

* A law to amend the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act to strengthen the commission.

* A law to amend the Copyright Act, 1957, to address the concerns of various stakeholders.

* To explore possibility of a law to create an independent accreditation body in school education.

Policy

* Launching a scheme to provide interest subsidy on educational loans taken by weaker sections for professional courses.

* Evolving a 'brain-gain' policy to attract talent from across the world to the existing and new institutions.

* To formulate a mechanism for public private partnership (PPP) in school education.

* Make Class 10 board examinations optional.

* To replace marking system by grades for standard nine and 10 in schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education.

* Madrassa modernisation and skill development for Muslim children.

* 'Equal opportunity offices' in all universities for effective implementation of schemes for disadvantaged sections of society.

Administrative

* Operationalise newly set up 12 central universities and two Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

* Review the functioning of 'deemed universities'.

* Academic reforms in semester system, choice-based credit system, regular revision of syllabi, impetus to research etc.

* Modernisation of copyright offices.

* 5,000 colleges and university departments to be provided broadband internet connectivity.

* Financial assistance to states to establish at least 100 new polytechnics.

* Financial assistance to states for 100 hostels for women.

* Direct credit of scholarship into the bank accounts of 41,000 boys and 41,000 girls.

-Yahoo News

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