Unveiling the UPA government’s “100 days” agenda for education, Sibal said: “Our first goal is to get the Right to Education Bill (making education compulsory for all) passed by Parliament.”
The following are the highlights of the UPA’s education revamp plan:
- Class 10 boards to be made optional. De-traumatise school education as the present marking system creates pressure on parents and children.
- Move from a marks-based system to grades-based system in schools.
- Implement right to free and compulsory education for all.
- Comprehensive policy on public-private partnership in education soon.
- Madrassa education to be brought on par with CBSE. Set up an All India Madrassa Board.
- Leverage the use of information technology in secondary schools, open schools and distant education. To facilitate this, bring broadband connectivity to all villages in three years.
- Foreign universities to be allowed to come to India but their entry and functioning to be regulated.
- Laws to curb educational malpractice and prevent ragging.
- Explore the possibility of an independent accreditation body to judge schools.
- Educational loans for students wherein the interest on the loan will be paid by the government. Direct credit of scholarship of 41,000 boys and 41,000 girls within the next 100 days.
- Teachers’ skills to be upgraded. A curriculum for teachers’ education to be announced soon.
- Explore possibility of a unified board system. Also, a unified body to take over from bodies like the UGC and AICTE.
- New “brain game” policy to attract foreign talent.
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