CG News: B.Ed to be run through ITPE from next year
This special B.Ed course in B.Com will only be offered in colleges that already offer B.Com undergraduate studies. Furthermore, necessary procedures have been expedited by Hemchand Yadav University. This will be a four-year course, in which students who have studied commerce in school can take admission. They will receive B.Com training for the first three years, after which the B.Com B.Ed course will begin. Meanwhile, they will also be taught about teaching learning and various aspects of B.Ed. In fact, the NCTE is offering this course only to those colleges in the district that have more than 10 years of experience in B.Ed. In addition, their college has already been teaching at the undergraduate level in the core subject. This course has not been offered to any new college in the division. The NCTE had sought information in 10 points regarding the commencement of the new course. Almost all the colleges had applied, but around 12 to 15 B.Ed colleges were found eligible for this.
Now ITPE, not Integrated
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has issued a circular in this regard. The course has been named Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITPE). The NCTE had previously approved the operation of an integrated B.Ed to a college in Durg district. This course was run for several years, but now this will be its last year. From next year, the integrated B.Ed course will be discontinued and the ITPE course will be implemented in its place. While previously only one college in the district offered a four-year B.Ed, the monopoly will end and students will have more college options. Previously, students pursuing a general B.Ed did not get a commerce specialisation during faculty selection; they were merged into arts subjects. With the new course, B.Com students will now be helped to become teachers in their core subjects.
Course under NEP
The NCTE has decided to offer this course only to the old colleges. In this regard, all the large groups of Durg district will come under this purview. The NCTE has stated that it is necessary to have BA, BSc and B.Com at the undergraduate level in colleges. That is, where there is B.Com, ITPE B.Com B.Ed will start. Similarly, where there is no BA, that college will not get approval for BA B.Ed. Generally, only one or two institutions in the district do not offer BA education. Apart from this, almost all colleges conduct this course. A similar arrangement has been made for BSc B.Ed.
