Indian primary, middle, and high school students will be able to earn “credits” for classroom learning and extracurricular activities. Thereafter they would be able to deposit them in a “bank,” similar to the system utilised in some colleges and universities.

On 26 October, Education Minister unveiled the National Credits Framework (NCrF).

Education authorities say credits are “recognition that a learner has completed a prior course of instruction, equivalent to level-specific accreditation.

Credits, therefore, are essentially an acknowledgement of earlier learning. It quantifies learning results.

Key facts!

Benefits of NCrF

• The National Credits framework governs how schools, colleges, and universities use credit.
• The National Higher Education Qualification Framework (NHEQF) sets guidelines for higher education institutions to use the credit system.
• The projected NCrF will unify all frameworks.
• For the first time, the credit system includes the complete school education system.
• NCrF also covers technical and vocational education.
• When the NCrF is implemented, classroom instruction will change significantly.
• Schools will have all credit system capabilities and possibilities.
• It would abolish equivalence certification for NCrF-compliant academic programmes, making it easier for students to transfer across schools and boards.
• NCrF addresses students’ concerns about the equivalency of credentials provided by various Indian school education boards for higher education admissions and government positions.
• The framework also resolves student concerns about certificate equivalence across Indian school education bodies.

NCrF and Credits

• A student must obtain at least 40 credits after 1200 “notional learning hours” to graduate.
• The NCRF defines “concept learning hours” as time spent in classrooms and extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
• Athletics, yoga, performing arts, music, social work, the National Civilian Community Corps, vocational education, on-the-job training, internships, and apprenticeships are examples.
• Tiers of schooling simplify NCrF calculations.
• Education has four levels. 12th-graders get credit level 4.
• 4.5 to 8 represent first-year undergraduate through PhD degrees in higher education.

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