1. Simple policy recos starting from primary school.Get rid of RTE,100's of regulation,paperwork.
Follow 3+1 langauge policy... for 1-5. Remove Social studies,ethics,moral sciences etc and any other unnecessary subjects.
2 Maths + Science. (Total 6)
Declare Saturday a holiday.
Remove all exams (UT,Assignments,Quaterly,Half yearly) and keep only final exams. The objective of 1-5 should be able to read a book (which PISA shows we fail) of 100 pages at least. Fill student's extra reading with Chandamama,Balamitra books and 10's of story books.
6-10;
Start teaching actual coding.
For maths,Topics are spread over 5 years with no real continuum. Start clubbing them.
Science labs,txtbooks need a serious rampup.
Imagine reading an txtbook while teacher explains many concepts in telugu/hindi.Write concepts in telugu.
All languages : In 5 years read abt 25 novels.
Extra credits to reading more. Get a list of 200 novels to choose from. People don't get their vocabulary from reading shakespeare/txtbooks/talking to 1another/dictionary.
Economics,civics : cancel;
Introduce Financial literacy program.
History : Put a reference lists and marker on what class should study till what.Allow teachers to draft their own set of txtbooks only from references. Games,videos,tours etc.. should be focus.
Exam policy: Get rid of everyone except Quaterly/Finals.
Assignments : Should get bulk of HW+evaluation.
10Qns. 3 tough problems in a set.Each Assignment --2% of final grade. Those who want to skip specific classes or r good at them should take assignments.
Expand scope of Shodhganga,library mission,nptel and other online resources. If there is course dub it in all Indic languages. Internship programs of industry + theory by clges. Look for demand of skills and how many ppl r required. Apprenticeship should b increased.
For higher studies,get 100's of labs (Maxplanck) associated with clgs. All research activities to be led by labs. Increase in Phd,postdoc positions and a not one size fit all evaluation. Instead of sending students across seas start building infra.
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