HRD Minister: No New B.Ed Colleges to Open this Year

Upset with the degradation of the standards of the training institutions imparting teacher education, the Centre has decided to put restrictions on newly opened B.Ed colleges across the country. Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar revealed that this year will be a "zero year" in terms of permission grant for new institutes. Already existing colleges and institutes will go through a quality check.

Javadekar observed that the B.Ed colleges were opening like “fly by night operators” and thus he has decided to take this step to ensure the quality of teaching faculty is maintained.

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He said that the institutes have been asked to provide their quality affidavits. So far, around seven thousand of them have been submitted. Also, show-cause notices to around 4,000 B.Ed colleges has been issued.

This announcement for not allowing any B.Ed college to open this academic year focusing on the teacher training was made during the presentation of 3 years achievement of education under the regime of PM Modi. The minister summed up expressing his worry about the colleges offering B.Ed degrees within a day just for the sake of money.

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He informed that the government is looking forward to increasing the practical component in the Diploma in Education (D.Ed) and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) courses. He added that the weightage of the practical component will also be increased in the teacher training modules. The government schools will conduct practical sessions which will be under observation of the teachers and feedback of the students will also be considered for the same.