Social services and spirituality will also be key components of the eduction policy. Apart from this, education institutions could be asked to adopt villages and participate in social upliftment, and the National Council for Teacher Education could be asked to make BEd a five-year programme.
The draft of the National Education Policy (NEP) envisages a separate and permanent cadre for education on the lines of administrative, revenue, foreign and police services. As per the draft, being drawn up by the HRD ministry, MPs will be asked to contribute 20% of their funds to education.
Social services and spirituality will also be key components of the eduction policy. Apart from this, education institutions could be asked to adopt villages and participate in social upliftment, and the National Council for Teacher Education could be asked to make BEd a five-year programme.
With the consultation process now reaching the final stage, the government has initiated the drafting process.
Setting up a separate cadre for teaching, ie taking education out from the hands of the bureaucracy, has been a long pending demand of academicians. The DS Kothari report on education commission of 1964-65 had also recommended setting up of a separate cadre for education on the lines of the IAS and IRS.
"Suggestion for a separate academic cadre has come from several stakeholders," said a ministry source.
The ministry is also looking at the option of setting up a separate commission for education on the lines of the Election Commission of India. The HRD ministry is vetting the Hari Gautam Committee report that has recommended replacing the University Grant Commission with the National Higher Education Authority.
"As the Authority will only be catering to higher education, the ministry has received suggestions to set up an autonomous commission, which would ensure autonomy to education institutions and facilitate appointments," explained an officer.
HRD minister Smriti Irani has hinted on removing the Right to Education clause of not holding back or expelling students till the completion of elementary education. The new education policy will give it a legal sanctity.
RSS-affiliated education bodies have been lobbying with the government to make Std X board exams mandatory. HRD minister Smriti Irani, in a meeting of Central Advisory Board of Education this August, had also managed to bring states on board on the issue of re-introducing the Std X board exams. "We have started receiving letters from states extending their support for bringing back Std X board exams. The ministry is hopeful that this exam will be reintroduced and the 'not holding back student' clause will be removed next year," added the official.
Education activist and RSS idealogue Dinanath Batra said, "The current teachers training curriculum is absolutely hollow. No thought process has gone into it. Government should make teaching models more holistic.
Students can't be taught just from books, teachers should be made institutions in themselves." He confirmed that he has made this suggestion to the ministry and hopes it will be considered.
The ministry is likely to come up with its first draft by the end of this year. It is hoping to bring the Bill into the Parliament in the budget session.
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