Hostel Welfare Officer Paper II · 12 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions · APPSC Paper I

12.1 Commissions, policies and admissions notes

4 notes, in reading order.

  1. 12.1.1Colonial-era education reports: Wood 1854 to Sargent 1944

    British-era education was shaped by six reports students must know by year and chairperson: Wood's Despatch (1854, Charles Wood), the Hunter Commission (1882, W.W. Hunter), the Sadler Commission (1917-19, Michael Sadler), the Hartog Committee (1929, Philip Hartog), the Wardha scheme (1937, Gandhi / Zakir Husain) and the Sargent Plan (1944, John Sargent).

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  2. 12.1.2Post-independence commissions and committees

    Independent India reviewed its education through a chain of bodies: Radhakrishnan (universities, 1948-49), Mudaliar (secondary, 1952-53), Kothari (all stages, 1964-66, the basis of NPE 1968), Ramamurti (review of NPE 1986, 1990), Yashpal (Learning without Burden, 1993) and the National Knowledge Commission under Sam Pitroda (2005-09).

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  3. 12.1.3National policies on education: 1968, 1986, POA 1992 and NEP 2020

    India has had three national education policies: NPE 1968 (Indira Gandhi; built on Kothari: common school, 10+2+3, three-language formula), NPE 1986 (Rajiv Gandhi; Operation Blackboard, Navodaya Vidyalayas, DIETs), revised in 1992 with a Programme of Action, and NEP 2020 (drafted under Kasturirangan; 5+3+3+4, mother tongue to Grade 5, PARAKH, 4-year integrated B.Ed.).

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  4. 12.1.4Common entrance tests and centralised admissions in Andhra Pradesh

    Admission to professional and higher courses in Andhra Pradesh is by common entrance tests (CETs) run under the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE, 1988) and filled by centralised web counselling on merit, reservation and the Article 371D local-area rules; central institutions use national tests run by the National Testing Agency (NTA, 2017): JEE Main, NEET-UG and CUET.

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