Poor performing BEd. Colleges may face shutdown; 1000 institutes under scrutiny

Poor performing BEd. Colleges may face shutdown; 1000 institutes under scrutiny

Following the footsteps of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) will shutdown the poor performing and non-performing institutes for teacher training.NCTE chairperson Satbir Bedi said, “We are planning to launch a performance appraisal report system, which will inspect institutes on several aspects, including quality of teaching and placement. Those that are non-compliant and not performing adequately will face a penalty.”As of now, 1000 teachers training institutes are under the scrutiny of the NCTE. “We have not enlisted colleges based on a single complaint, but on regular non-compliance of rules and standards for teacher training. Many institutes fail to meet the minimum requirement and several seats go vacant, in addition to non-quality placement. Such institutes, which will anyway be rejected by students, face shutdown,” said Bedi.NCTE claims that it receives around 5 lakh applications every year for the BEd courses, seats in many of these institutions remain vacant. “We have the capacity of training over 19 lakh students each year, however, only 3-3.5 lakh jobs are generated annually. Yet we always have an over-capacity of nearly 5 lakh extra students enrolling for BEd courses,” said Bedi.Explaining the rationale behind vacant seats, Sanjay Awasthi, Member-Secretary, NCTE said, “Teaching institutes have been mushrooming since 2008, resulting in oversupply and hence vacant seats. Candidates often do not choose institutes with a reputation for low placement records. We will penalize poor performers and encourage quality institutes.”NCTE is also revising the BEd curriculum which will include integrated BEd programs such as BSc-BEd, BCom-BEd to create specialized teachers. These courses will be available from next year.

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