Port Blair, June 5: The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), statutory body set up by an Act of Parliament in 1993, has the mandate to ensure planned and coordinated development of Teacher Education in the country. It lays down norms and standards for various Teacher Education programmes. At the instance of the Supreme Court of India, a Commission on Teacher Education under the chairmanship of Justice J.S. Verma was appointed in 2011 to rejuvenate the system of Teacher Education in the country.
The Commission recommended duration and curriculum of various Teacher Education programmes. In order to implement the recommendations of the Commission, the NCTE revised the Regulations, Norms and Standards of existing Teacher Education programmes and published the revised regulations in 2014 vide Gazette Notification No. 346 dated 1/12/2014. These Regulations and Norms and Standards have come into force from the date of the publication in the Gazette of India.
Accordingly, the Pondicherry University to which Tagore Government College of Education, Port Blair is affiliated, has directed to implement these Regulations strictly from the academic year 2015-16. According to the revised Regulations, the B.Ed. programme shall be of a duration of two years which can be completed in a maximum of three years from the date of admission to the programme with 200 working days in each year. However the duration of four years integrated program in education namely B.A.B.Ed. and B.Sc.B.Ed. shall remain the same. The notification for admission to B.Ed. degree programme for the year 2015-16 in Tagore Government College of Education, Port Blair shall be issued only after the receipt of revised Regulations of the course for a duration of two years from the Pondicherry University.
