Untrained teachers can now access training material
To acquire required qualification by 2019
Fifteen lakh
untrained school teachers have enrolled for a training course with the National
Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), an autonomous institution under the
Ministry of Human Resource Development, to get themselves trained by 2019 to be
able to retain their jobs.
This has happened
just after Parliament passed an amendment to the Right to Education Act to
offer them a last window to acquire proper training, something seen as
essential to the provision of quality education in government and private
schools.
The highest number
of applications has been received from Bihar — over 2.8 lakh — followed by
Uttar Pradesh (1.95 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (1.91 lakh), West Bengal (1.69 lakh)
and Assam (1.51 lakh).
The NIOS has
designed online courses to enable them to acquire a Diploma in Elementary
Education (D.El.Ed).
Students’ right
“Quality education
is the right of students... NIOS has developed the course for upgrading the
professional competence and information and communication based capacity
building for teachers,” HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said at the launch of
the course.
“The course will
be offered through ‘Swayam’, a platform for online education, imparting
knowledge through Dish TV. This is for the first time in the world that such
high number of applications have been received for an online course.”
Of the 14.97 lakh
applicants, 12.29-lakh have already made the payment. The payment window is
open till October 5.
“Among the over
12-lakh untrained teachers who have enrolled for the course, 9.25-lakh are from
private schools and 3.53-lakh are employed in government schools,” NIOS
Chairman CB Sharma was quoted by PTI as saying.
Mobile application
While only those
can acquire this diploma who scored at least 50% in Class-12, Prof. Sharma said
at the launch that those who could not could appear again with the NIOS to try
and get the requisite marks.
A mobile
application has also been developed to help teachers seek any clarifications
and solutions.
Beginning on
Tuesday, the course will spread over four semesters and have 1,080 lectures
accessible in 10 languages.
(With PTI inputs)
Source | The Hindu | 4th October
2017
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Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior Manager @
Knowledge Repository
Khaitan &
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