Mission Schools of Excellence
Mission Schools of Excellence: Mission Schools of Excellence is a partially world bank funded project in Gujarat. Mission Schools of Excellence is important for UPSC Prelims Exam (Important Schemes) and UPSC Mains Exam (GS Paper 2- Governance).
Mission Schools of Excellence: Why in News?
- Recently, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched Mission Schools of Excellence at Trimandir, Adalaj, Gujarat.
- During the event at Trimandir, the Prime Minister also launched projects worth around Rs 4260 crores.
- Earlier, Mr. Modi had inaugurated a School Monitoring Centre in Gandhinagar and asked all States to set up such state-of-the-art centres that will help enhance quality of education in schools.
Key Details about Mission Schools of Excellence
- About: Mission Schools of Excellence is a partially funded World Bank project aimed at strengthening the education infrastructure in the State of Gujarat.
- Funding: Mission Schools of Excellence is conceived with an outlay of ₹10,000 crore.
- Key Objective: Mission Schools of Excellence is aimed at strengthening the education infrastructure in the State through setting up of new classrooms, smart classrooms, computer labs and overall upgradation of infrastructure in schools.
- Implementation: Under its first phase, school infrastructure projects worth over ₹5,567 crore will be undertaken.
- Exclusive curriculum and pedagogy: In these residential schools which will be prepared in consultation with national and international boards.
- Medium of Pedagogy: the new residential schools will lay emphasis on the bilingual medium from Grade VI-VIII to prepare the students for English medium from Grade IX onwards. This is aligned with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020.
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Mission Schools of Excellence- Additional Information
- Mission Schools of Excellence project: it is a World Bank-funded Mission. In the period of six years, the project aims to build-
- 50000 new classrooms- 4,000 classrooms
- Setting up 1.5 lakh smart classrooms in primary and secondary schools along with 20,000 computer labs and
- Setting up 5,000 Atal Tinkering Labs.
- The project has been divided into three phases starting with residential schools of excellence, emerging schools of excellence, and aspiring schools of excellence.
- Importance: The mission is a step forward in implementation of the New Education Policy in Gujarat.
- Mission Schools of Excellence will give it a boost to Gujarat in emerging it as an innovation hub in the Country and the World.
- It will also help Gujarat towards the creation of the Amrit generation for the Amrit Kaal.
About National Education Policy
- It is the third education policy of our country. The earlier two was launched in 1968 and 1986.
- This national policy came after a gap of 34 years.
- It is based on the recommendations of Kasturirangan committee.
- It renames the Ministry of Human Resource Development to Ministry of Education.
- It proposes a 5+3+3+4 curricular and pedagogical structure.
| Stages | Years | Class | Features |
| Foundational | 3-8 | 3 years of pre-primary and 1-2 | Flexible, multi-level, activity-based learning |
| Preparatory | 9-11 | 3-5 | Light textbooks, more formal but interactive classroom learning |
| Middle | 12-14 | 6-8 | Introduction of subject teachers for learning of more abstract concepts, experimental learning |
| Secondary | 15-18 | 9-12 | Reading in-depth, critical thinking, greater attention to life aspirations |
National Education Policy