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The twelvemonth 2025 volition beryllium remembered arsenic the twelvemonth Karnataka adopted its ain State Education Policy (SEP), rejecting the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020. This was a canvass committedness of the Congress enactment successful 2023.
The State authorities formed a committee nether erstwhile University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat successful October, 2023 to formulate an SEP, and the study was expected wrong 5 months. But aft respective extensions, the SEP study was yet submitted successful August, 2025.
The SEP-2025 has made respective recommendations similar discarding the three-language look and adopting a two-language look instead. It has besides recommended Kannada/mother lingua arsenic the mean of acquisition successful superior acquisition sector, extending Right to Education till 18 years of property of the students, implementing preservation matrix successful adjacent backstage acquisition institutes, among others.
However, the SEP hasn't been implemented yet and it is hoped that it volition beryllium implemented from the world twelvemonth 2026-27. While the Higher Education Department has formed an experts committee to instrumentality the SEP Commission’s recommendations pertaining to higher education, not adjacent specified an workout has been initiated for schoolhouse acquisition yet.
KPS magnet schools
Meanwhile, the State government’s determination connected KPS Magnet Schools turned arguable this year. The authorities has announced that it would make 900 Karnataka Public School (KPS) magnet schools, which volition person classes from preprimary to II PUC, crossed the State and of them 509 volition beryllium developed successful 2025-27, utilizing an Asian Development Bank loan. Each schoolhouse volition get a assistance of ₹2 crore to ₹4 crore. These schools identified successful each clump utilizing a scoring method based connected people coverage, enrolment, determination and infrastructure, aims to person 1,200 students, with schoolhouse van facility.
However, what turned arguable was the determination to merge tiny authorities schools wrong a radius of 1 to 5 km and transportation each their teachers to KPS schools. As a aviator project, the authorities has already issued an bid to merge 7 schools successful the vicinity with the KPS magnet schoolhouse successful Honganuru colony of Channapatna taluk of Bengaluru South district. In addition, astir 25,000 tiny schools are expected to beryllium merged with the KPS schools crossed the State.
This was being opposed bony and nail by educationists, activists, parents and pupil organisations.
4,056 pre-primary schools
In a akin vein, the State authorities is starting Early Child Care Education (ECCE – Pre-primary of LKG and UKG) successful a full of 4,056 authorities schools crossed the State successful the twelvemonth 2025-26. Classes are expected to commencement successful these schools successful the world twelvemonth 2026-27. Lack of pre-primary classes successful authorities schools is said to beryllium 1 of the cardinal reasons wherefore parents nonstop their children to backstage schools.
Of these, the authorities has fixed support to the Commissioner of Public Instruction to commencement pre-primary classes successful 1,105 schools nether the Samagra Shiksha Karnataka scheme, 126 PM Shri schools, 1,126 schools nether the ‘Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB), and 1,699 KPS Magnet schools.
First Foreign University
Meanwhile, the University of Liverpool from United Kingdom (U.K.), became the archetypal overseas assemblage to commencement its field successful Karnataka. They started their field successful Bengaluru.
Imperial College of Landon and Lancaster University, some from the U.K., person already signed an statement with the Karnataka authorities to acceptable up their campuses successful Bengaluru.
