Union education ministry forms committee to develop new curriculums for schools – Education News
The Union education ministry on Tuesday formed a 12-member committee to develop new curriculums for school, early childhood, teacher and adult education.
The panel tasked with developing four national curriculum frameworks (NCFs) will be headed by National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) drafting committee chairperson K Kasturirangan who is also a former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This will be the fifth NCF, which will come after a gap of 16 years, and will be in accordance with reforms outlined in the NEP, according to ministry officials.
According to the terms of reference of the committee, it will develop four NCFs for school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education, keeping in focus all the recommendations of NEP-2020 related to these four areas for proposing curriculum reforms.
The NCFs serve as a guideline for syllabus, textbook and teaching practices for schools in India. The committee will discuss “position papers” finalized by national focus groups on different aspects of the four areas drawing inputs from state curriculum frameworks.
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