Centre hopes to roll out National Education Policy in a year
The HinduThe Union Ministry of Education hopes to roll out the new system envisaged in the National Education Policy 2020 in 12-18 months. The new system comprises five years of primary education; three years each of middle school and secondary education; and four years of higher education. On the sidelines of the first G20 Education Working Group meeting on Tuesday, Sanjay Kumar, Secretary of the Department of School Education in the Union Ministry of Education, told media persons that with the new curriculum for the first five years ready for release “in the later part of the month ”, the curriculum for the rest of the new system would follow soon. ‘Leverage technology’ Earlier in the day, inaugurating the meeting, K. Sanjay Murthy, Secretary, Higher Education Department, Union Ministry of Education, called on the G20 member-countries to collaborate to leverage technology further to achieve common educational targets.