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Degree Courses through Distance Education

Teacher Education through Distance Mode

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Teacher education may be broadly grouped into five categories: education for (1) pre-primary and elementary school teachers, (2) secondary and higher school teachers, (3) physical education teachers, (4) teachers for the physically handicapped, and (5) teachers for specific subjects.

Institutes of Advanced Study in Education (IASEs) has been set up in a number of States for the promotion of study and research in teacher education. They also offer B.Ed Courses under affiliation from universities.

Education, as a subject, is also offered both at the B.A (as one of the combinations) and the Master’s degree level. M.A in Education is of two-year duration and is offered by education faculties of more than 25 universities. They are open to Bachelor’s degree holders. Kalyani University (Kalyani-741235) and the Mysore University (Mysore-570005) offer M.A/M.Sc. (Education) and M.Sc. (Education) respectively which are open to B.Ed. degree holders. IGNOU offers a Ph.D (Education) course to distance mode.

B ed through correspondance is favoured by teachers who get selected in private english medium Schools and they want b ed degree while working. They can avail doing b ed courses offered by Universities through Distance learning and correspondence

NCTE has now issued guidelines which have been approved by the UGC for B.Ed course through distance mode.The salient features of the guidelines are:

  1. the duration should be 24 months exclusive of the time taken for completing admission formalities;
  2. the admissions should be made on the basis of a written admission test;
  3. admissions should be given only to regular teachers serving in recognised schools (primary, secondary, and higher secondary level) within the jurisdiction of the university and possessing a minimum two years of teaching experience;
  4. no university should admit more than 500 candidates in a given academic year; and
  5. for every 500 students, there should be a full time core faculty and additional complement of ten part-time faculty members.

Among the universities which have been permitted to offer the B.Ed course through distance learning mode are (1) Himachal Pradesh University (Shimla); (2) Maharshi Dayanand University (Rohtak); (3) Punjabi University (Patiala); (4) Tripura University (Agartala); (5) Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra); (6) Karnataka State Open University (Bangalore), and (7) Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) (New Delhi). The IGNOU course is open to full-time teachers of recognised schools with two years of regular teaching experience.

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