Certification may soon be must for teachers
Concerned
over the poor quality of teaching institutes and colleges that are producing
“sub-standard” teachers, the Centre is planning to put in place a mandatory
accreditation and certification process for such schools.
To
ensure compliance, the Centre is likely to make certification mandatory for
graduates applying to government teaching jobs, sources said.
Last
year, while reviewing the education sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
said that the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry should issue a mandate
to states to recruit teachers every year from accredited and certified teacher
training institutes only.
Sources
said the ministry, in consultation with states, is working out the parameters.
“Teachers
are the key to delivery of good quality education. But nowadays so many
institutes have come up ...and they don’t have the expertise, quality teachers
and infrastructure to run such courses . Many Bachelor of Education (BEd)
colleges have started operating which are not even maintaining basic
standard... We want to keep a check on that,” said a senior official.
The
National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE) is a regulatory body for school
level teachers’ training and according to it there are over 24,000 teacher
training institutions across the country.
It
also gives approval to teaching institutes to operate. However, sources say
most don’t follow the norms laid by NCTE.
The
impact of poor quality teaching is visible in schools as surveys in Delhi found
half the sixth graders in government-run schools are unable to read at all.
Source | Hindustan Times | 30 January 2017
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