Teacher Training Colleges to get Recognition; Bill Introduced in Parliament

Minister of Human Resource Development, Mr. Prakash Javadekar introduced a Bill in the parliament with an objective to grant retrospective recognition to universities and government-funded institutes offering teaching training courses without the approval of NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education). The Bill will amend the NCTE Act 1993 if approved by the parliament.

What does Retrospective Recognition mean?

Usually, NCTE is the authority to monitor, inspect and grant recognition to teacher training colleges. According to HRD Ministry’s idea, colleges and universities offer teacher training courses without the recognition of NCTE could be also recognized. However, the kind of recognition given to these colleges will be retrospective, i.e., basing on the past performance of the institute. If the performance of institute is good, then it will be eligible for the retrospective recognition. The National Council for Teacher Education (Amendment) Act, 2017, will grant such recognition to the colleges.

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The degrees offered by the colleges with retrospective recognition will be equivalent to those offered by NCTE recognised colleges.

The retrospective recognition given to these colleges will be a one-time measure and students who have passed or are pursuing teacher-training courses in these colleges will not have any problem as their future will not be jeopardised. Once the bill is passed, students from these institutes will be eligible to seek employment as teachers.

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Currently, all the teacher training institutes offered B.Ed and D.Ed courses must obtain recognition from NCTE as per Section 14 of NCTE Act. Further, the courses offered by teaching training institutes must be permitted under Section 15 of the Act.