The draft National Credit Framework

The draft National Credit Framework

Subject :Government Schemes

Context:

• Recently, the Union Ministry of Education Dharmendra Pradhan unveiled the draft National Credit Framework.
• The Students will soon be able to earn credits for both classroom learning and extracurricular activities through a unified credit system, which will be deposited in a credit bank,a system that is already in place at the higher academic level.

What is The National Credit Framework (NCrF):

• The National Credit Framework (NCrF) is based on the recommendation of an inter-ministerial committee led by Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi
• NCrF aims to bring all school students under a unified credit system.

Recommendation of The National Credit Framework (NCrF):

• The framework’s goal is to develop a unified credit accumulation and transfer system for general and vocational education from school to higher education.
• Aside from class tests, activities such as festival celebrations and school cleaning will earn credits that will be stored in the Academic Bank of Credit.
• There will be no hard and fast distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities or between vocational and academic tracks.
• Aadhaar will be used for student registration, and each candidate will be assigned an academic bank account number, where degrees and credits will be accumulated.
• At the school level, the draft National Credit Framework proposes that the credit regime be divided into five levels-
  • From pre-school to class II
  • Classes III to V
  • Classes VI to VIII
  • Classes IX to X
  • Classes XI and XII
• A student who clears class XII will be at credit level 4 and up to 8 for those who obtain doctorate degrees.
• 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.
• The annual “notional learning” duration to earn at least 40 credits has been fixed at 1,200 hours e time spent in classrooms + a range of extracurricular activities and sports for completing each year of school, besides clearing the exams.