Education ministry constitutes panel to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs); Head- Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan

Education ministry constitutes panel to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs); Head- Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan

Education ministry constitutes panel to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs); Head- Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan

  • The Union Ministry of Education has formed a 12-member committee to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs) for school, early childhood, teacher and adult education.
  • The NCFs serve as a guideline for syllabus, textbook and teaching practices for schools in India.
  • The panel will be headed by K Kasturirangan, former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Chairperson of National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) drafting committee.
  • As per the terms of reference of the committee the panel will develop four NCFs, i.e. for school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education.
  • The panel will be required to keep in focus all the recommendations of NEP-2020 related to these four areas while proposing curriculum reforms.
  • Once developed, it will be the fifth NCF, which comes after a gap of 16 years..

Other members of the committee includes:

  1. Mahesh Chandra Pant-Chancellor of National Institute of Education Planning and Administration
  2. Govind Prasad Sharma-Chairman of National Book Trust
  3. Najma Akhtar – Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia
  4. T V Kattimani – Vice Chancellor of Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh
  5. Milind Kamble – Chairperson of IIM Jammu 
  6. Michel Danino – guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar
  7. Jagbir Singh – Chancellor of Central University of Punjab, Bathinda;
  8. Manjul Bhargava – American mathematician of Indian origin;
  9. M K Sridhar- trainer and social activist;
  10. Dhir Jhingran – founder director of Language and Learning Foundation (LLF);
  11.  Shankar Maruwada – co-founder and CEO at EkStep Foundation

Points to Remember:

  1. Head of the committee formed by Education ministry to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs)?
  2. How many members are there in the panel? 12
  3. Full form of NCF?

Source: The Indian Express

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