New Delhi, July 27: D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development in a written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today said, “It is the constant endeavour of the Government to improve the teacher education system in the country. The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) frames regulations, norms and standards for quality teacher education and reviews them from to time.
To ensure quality of institutions imparting teacher education inspection under Sector 13 and 17 of the NCTE Act are conducted. To make recognition of teacher education institutions need based, the NCTE is conducting a study on Demand and Supply estimates of teachers and teacher educators at school stage 2007-08 to 2016-17.
The Central Government also provides financial assistance to State Governments for imparting training to school teachers through various institutions such as District Institutes of Education & Training (DIETs), Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) and institutes for Advanced Studies in Education (IASEs).
Quality of such training is constantly monitored and attuned to the requirements of changes in curriculum, text books and particular needs of the school teachers to enrich their pedagogical skills and content knowledge.
To upgrade the curriculum for B.Ed. and all other teacher training programmes, a revised National Curriculum Framework on teacher education in synchronization with the NCF 2005, is being finalized by the NCTE.
–Agencies–