Srinagar, Dec 28 : The School Education Department has proposed that school students will have to earn at least 40 credits for completing each year of school, besides clearing the exams.
The department in a communiqué to Chief Education Officers (CEOs) and District Institute of Education and Trainings (DIETs) said this while discussing the contents of National Credit Framework (NCrF) for wider consultation and sharing inputs or comments with the Department.
“Department of School Education GoI has released the NCrF for public consultation under NEP 2020 to empower students and youth,” it reads.
The news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) has learnt that the New Education Policy (NEP) Cell of DSEK has proposed the benefits for various stakeholders.
“Through the provision of multiple entry and exit, work choices, NCrF will ensure flexibility in the length of study, or courses and it will also clear the way for crediting of all learning hours, including academic, vocational, and experiential learning. Additionally, it will provide for lifelong learning, or learning at any time and from any location,” reads the communiqué.
It also said, “At School Level, the draft NCrF proposes that the credit regime will be divided into five levels, from pre-school to Class-II upto classes XI and XII wherein a student who clears class XII will be at credit level-4.”
DSEK further said that under the draft framework, the credit points will be carried over to the graduation level, and further. “A student will have to earn at least 40 credits for completing each year of school, besides clearing the exams.”
“The annual ‘national learning’ duration to earn at least 40 credits has been fixed at 1200 hours—these will be not just time spent in classrooms but also a range of extracurricular activities and sports,” it reads.
The communiqué further states that it may include yoga, other physical activities, performing arts, music, social work, NCC, vocational education, as well as on-the-job training, internships and apprenticeships, among others.
“At the Higher Education level, the credit levels will range between 4.5 and 6 at the four-year courses at undergraduate level, followed by the post-graduation level (between level 6 and 7),” it reads adding, ‘The framework has provisions of credit levels going up to 8 for those who obtain doctorate degrees.’—(KNO)
