The Indian Education Service or Indian Educational Service (IES) formed part of the

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between 1896 and 1924, when overseas recruitment ceased. It was an administrative organisation running educational establishments in

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, largely staffed by Europeans, that was crucial to Macaulay's model of colonial education . It replaced a previous system of provincial administrations by a uniform all-India service. The IES was formed based on the recommendations of the 1886 Public Service Commission, as part of the Superior Education Service, which comprised also the Provincial Education Service. In practice the IES was mostly British, and the Provincial Education Service was staffed by Indians, with substantial differentials of pay between the services. As a delayed consequence of the Islington Commission of 1912 on public services in India, the existing distinction between the IES and Provincial Education Service officials began to be dismantled in the early 1920s.

Revival

There have been multiple proposals to revive the IES even in independent India. Most recently, the

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central government proposed to revive the IES, as per comments in 2016 on its upcoming draft of

National Education Policy 2020 The National Education Policy of India 2020 (NEP 2020), which was started by the Union Cabinet of India on 29 July 2020, outlines the vision of new education system of India. The new policy replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1 ...

.https://www.mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/nep/Inputs_Draft_NEP_2016.pdf The National Education Policy was adopted in 2020.

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Revival

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