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The Committee chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan submitted its report for Draft National Education
Policy on May 31, 2019. The report proposes an Education Policy, which seeks to address the
challenges of :
(i) access, (ii) equity, (iii) quality, (iv) affordability, and (v) accountability faced by the current education system. Key observations and recommendations of the Committee include :::
● Extending the RTE Act to include early childhood education and secondary school education,
thereby extending the coverage of the Act to all children between the ages of three to eighteen
years. Currently, the RTE Act provides for free and compulsory education to all children in the
age group of six to fourteen years.
● There should be no detention of children till class eight. Instead, schools must ensure that children are achieving age-appropriate learning levels.
● State Census Examinations for students of classes three, five and eight to track students’ progress throughout their school experience.
● To reduce the stress levels of students, the Committee recommended restructuring the board examinations to test only core concepts, skills and higher order capacities.
● Restructuring of higher education institutions into three types :
1. research universities focusing equally on research and teaching;
2. teaching universities focusing primarily on teaching but conducting significant research as well; and
3. colleges focusing only on teaching in undergraduate education.
● Setting up of the National Higher Education Regulatory Authority which would replace the
existing individual regulators in higher education, including professional education.
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