4-year course to become
teacher after 12th
New
Delhi : The Human Resources Development Ministry is introducing a
4-year degree course for producing professional teachers like engineers and
doctors. Anyone passing 12th exam is eligible for the course that will enable
direct appointment in schools as a teacher.
The National Council for Teachers’
Education (NCTE) is ready with the curriculum of the course that envisages
grant of BABeD in arts stream and BScBed in Science stream. Admissions in the
course are proposed to start from the next academic session in July. The only
handicap is that so far only 1000 out of 18,000 teacher training colleges have
consented to switch over to the new course.
An early introduction of the course
as the new basic qualification for appointment of the school teachers was
discussed here on Monday at a conference of the state education ministers. NCTE
chairman Prof. Santosh Panda said the purpose of the new course is to encourage
the students to become teachers after they pass the 12th class exam instead of
going for BEd after graduation. The course is prepared with an aim to produce
good teachers as “our worry is that if the students go for becoming doctors,
engineers and CAs, we would not have good teachers,” Panda said.
The conference discussed acute
shortage of teachers as those teaching in the government or government aided
schools are just 14.15 lakh as against the sanctioned posts of 19 lakhs.
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