National Education Policy Draft received more than 77000 feedback letters

National Education Policy Draft received more than 77000 feedback letters

According to HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, The HRD Ministry has received more than 77000 comments and letters on the draft of National Education Policy. The extended deadline for accepting the feedback on National Education Policy ends on Wednesday, July 31. “About 5% of the feedback received so far is useful, and will be taken into account,” said a senior HRD Ministry official. The Center is sifting through the recommendations and will take next few weeks to make final changes to the draft before it is submitted for Cabinet approval. Majority of the letters came in opposing the changes suggested in the draft regarding the teachers’ recruitment norms. The draft policy is scathing its assessment of the current teachers’ recruitment procedure. “There are few initiatives that explicitly aim to recruit the best-performing students or those that have the most talent for teaching, into the teaching profession. In particular, current teacher recruitment does not involve any interviews or classroom demonstrations that assess motivation and passion; written examinations such as the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) often have little correlation with teaching ability,” it said. The draft recommended a complete overhaul of the system and said that TETs must be strengthened “through improved test material correlated to capacities of outstanding teachers, both in terms of content and pedagogy. Finally, in order to gauge passion and motivation for teaching, a classroom demonstration or interview will become an integral part of teacher hiring at schools and school complexes; these interviews would also be used to assess comfort and proficiency in teaching in the local language, so that every school/school complex has at least some teachers who can converse with students in the local language,” says the draft. These suggested moves have been opposed by the teachers union. The suggestion to close down a large number of substandard teacher training institute also came under fire as many times there are local and political interests involved in running of these institutions. More consultations with all State Education Ministers are scheduled after the end of the Parliament session.

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