The government on January 26 launched the exhaustive exercise for holding consultations aimed at the drafting of a new national education policy and invited suggestions and discussions on the following 33 themes:
School Education
- Ensuring Learning Outcomes in Elementary Education
- Extending outreach of Secondary and Senior Secondary Education
- Strengthening of Vocational Education
- Reforming School Examination Systems
- Revamping Teacher Education for Quality Teachers
- Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on Women, SCs, STs & Minorities through Adult Education and National Open Schooling Systems
- Promotion of Information and Communication Technology systems in school and adult education
- New Knowledge, pedagogies and approaches for teaching of Science, Maths and Technology in School Education to improve learning outcomes of Students
- School standards, School assessment and School Management systems
- Enabling Inclusive Education – education of Girls, SCs, STs, Minorities and children with special needs
- Promotion of Languages
- Comprehensive Education – Ethics, Physical Education, Arts & Crafts, Life Skills
- Focus on Child Health
Higher Education
- Governance reforms for quality
- Ranking of institutions and accreditations
- Improving the quality of regulation
- Pace setting roles of central institutions
- Improving State public universities
- Integrating skill development in higher education
- Promoting Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and online courses
- Opportunities for technology enabled learning
- Addressing regional disparity
- Bridging gender and social gaps
- Linking higher education to society
- Developing the best teachers
- Sustaining student support systems
- Promote cultural integration through language
- Meaningful partnership with the private sector
- Financing higher education
- Internationalization of higher education
- Engagement with industry to link education to employability
- Promoting research and innovation
- New Knowledge
