The NCTE's major failure has been its inability to regulate the spurious institutions that run teacher training courses by violating the rules. This has created the problem of recognition, nowhere perhaps as acutely as in Bengal where there have been, right from the beginning, the maximum number of institutions operating without the necessary affiliation of the NCTE.
"It is one of the major mandates of the National Education Policy 2020 related to Teacher Education. It will be offered in pilot mode initially in multidisciplinary Central/State Government Universities/Institutions across the country"
The court did not concur with the argument of the secretary, school education department, that successive legal tangles had been holding up the appointment of hundreds of thousands of school teachers.
The Union Cabinet on July 29 gave its approval to a new National Education Policy aimed to bring about several changes in the education system from the school to college level.
Hundreds of teacher trainees who did not fulfil the eligibility conditions to appear for the BEd examination were allowed to appear in the first semester exam in December, it is learnt
There is a systematic onslaught on the very idea of higher education in India. The recent decision by the HRD ministry to grant autonomy to public institutions is an example of how the state is seeking to ensure that students from poor and backward classes are driven to the periphery and denied access to equal, quality and affordable education.
Sixty higher educational institutions, including colleges, were given graded autonomy; JNU was in the eye of the storm as there was stiff opposition to the grant of autonomy to this university.
The correction period has been increased; CBSE CTET correction period will start from September 6, 2018, and continue till September 15.
Questions have been raised about the quality of school teachers in India. The National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE) which…
