The draft National Credit Framework
- October 20, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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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.