Cabinet approved National Education Policy 2020;

• Major reforms in higher education include target of 50% gross enrollment ration by 2035 and provision for multiple entry/exit
  
  
• Other features include graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy of institutions and single regulator for all higher education working under a self-disclosure based transparent system for approvals in place of numerous ‘inspections’
  
  
• e-courses will be developed in regional languages; virtual labs will be developed and a National Educational Technology Forum(NETF) is being created
  
  
• National mission to focus on basic literacy and basic numeracy; major changes in the pedagogical structure of curriculum with no rigid separation between streams; all separations between vocational and academic and curricular and extra-curricular will also be removed
  
  
• Board exams will be low stakes and test actual knowledge instead of rote learning; Mother tongue to be medium of instruction till 5th grade; report cards will be a comprehensive report on skills and capabilities instead of just marks and statements
  
  
• Here are the broad outcomes expected from National Education Policy 2020